You might have made your comment without thinking it through.. the Hymns that INDELIBLE GRACE performs, are actually taken from very old Presbyterian, Baptist, and Methodist hymnals. Many of these hymns are well over 200 years old, ALL of them were used in Church services at one time.
Kevin Twit, (founder of Indelible Grace)has said,”Our hope is to help the church recover the tradition of putting old hymns to new music for each generation, and to enrich our worship with a huge view of God and His indelible grace. Our hope is to be a voice calling our generation back to something rich and solid and beyond the fluff and the trendy. We want to remind God’s people that thinking and worship are not mutually exclusive, and we want to invite the Church to appreciate her heritage without idolizing it. We want to open up a world of passion and truth and make it more that just an archaic curiosity for the religiously sentimental. We believe worship is formative, and that it does matter what we sing.”
Indelible Grace “MARRIES” the texts of these precious old Hymns, to NEW Music.. this is HARDLY Christian Contemporary Music. These albums would NOT merit a second glance at most Christian radio stations.
When these hymns were originally composed..they often used tunes that were somewhat popular in that era..usually something that folk would be able to sing and remember with ease.. Indelible Grace does nothing different here, using the folk music of our own era (country flavored folk and light rock) in their recordings. Indelible Grace invites everyone to listen to the hymns, but while doing so, CONTEMPLATE what these lyrics are saying.. This is real Worship music.
Although we may not use the same instrumentation that INDELIBLE GRACE does in their recordings.. we sing these many of these Hymns in our Church service.
A few years ago, a documentary was made about INDELIBLE GRACE..with a good portion of a concert they performed at The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.. you might enjoy seeing them perform.. this is quite good = http://youtu.be/dfAD8oofyM0
Time will tell.