NASHVILLE — William Reynolds, longtime Southern Baptist musician and author of popular hymns including “Share His Love” and “People to People,” died March 28 at the age of 88.
Reynolds worked 25 years in the church music department of the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) (now LifeWay Christian Resources). He was editor of the 1975 Baptist Hymnal, which included several of his songs, among them his arrangement of “I Have Decided to Follow Jesus.”
In 1980, he joined the faculty of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, where he was professor of church music until his retirement in 1998. After retiring, he returned to Nashville. The composer of hundreds of hymns, Reynolds is regarded as one of Southern Baptists’ great songwriters.
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