Church Music and Nashville

I applaud Keith Getty in his dedication to the idea of hymnody, but what he writes is a far cry from what we've received from the evangelical hymn tradition. For one thing English hymn writers Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, John Newton were clergymen, not Nashville singer-songwriters. Getty is selling a product. Certainly older writers promoted and published their stuff. Nothing wrong with that. But their's holds a very different ethos than what's produced in today's church music climate.