“Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives tradition such a bad name.”
― Jaroslav Pelikan, The Vindication of Tradition: The 1983 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities

Sometimes letting go of a desire to satisfy personal preferences helps us to grasp things that are far more important to our relationship with one another. I have often said admiringly of my own congregation that "people here seem to hold their preferences lightly." Indeed, in the months before I joined a couple of years ago, the congregation decided to worship together in one service rather than the two that had employed very different styles of music. Coming together has been a blessing in many ways.

"Oh sing to the Lord a new song" (Ps. 96:1).
"But test everything; hold fast what is good" (1 Thess. 5:21).