NORTH RICHLAND HILLS, Texas — The nation’s largest a cappella congregation within the Churches of Christ has decided to add an instrumental worship assembly on Saturday evenings.
Statements on the Web site of Richland Hills Church of Christ in North Richland Hills, Texas, said the decision to add a third weekend assembly including instrumental praise came after a three-year period of fasting and prayer. An additional statement from elders of the church said the period of reflection inspired them to "become a more externally focused church."
The congregation, located in the Fort Worth area, is the largest of the 13,000 a cappella churches in the Churches of Christ, reported The Christian Chronicle, a denominational newspaper. For more than 100 years, instrumental churches and a cappella, or noninstrumental churches, have remained separate while sharing their roots in the Stone-Campbell Movement of the 1830s. Some opponents to instrumental music say instruments are not mentioned in the New Testament.
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