God desires a grateful response for all that He has done, is going to do and is continuing to do for us (including, especially, His forgiveness and love), with a humble, broken and contrite heart. The outworking of that response is a life oriented toward God, a sacrificial life of love for God through our obedience to Him, and love for one another in the context of the believing community and the world beyond.
We gather as Christians to meet with each other and God-- remembering what He has done for us and meeting with Him in prayer, praise and worship. We also meet to encourage one another, promoting and equipping this life of love through teaching, fellowship, fasting, and sharing of gifts, prophecies, possessions and communions; and allowing God to share His Spirit, His word and healing. As a result, we should be equipped to continue to serve in the Christian community and beyond.
Song is one of the ways the Christian community learns and remembers the truth about God, and an opportunity to present an offering of love to God. Through song we hear instruction, recall God's deeds, receive comfort, and communicate with God by expressing sorrow, anger, joy, confusion and thanksgiving, while still allowing Him to speak to us. In the communal act of singing, the word of Christ becomes a part of us; we teach and admonish one another while giving thanks to God.
(Based off of the Book of Acts and the Psalms as a whole.) I will definitely go into more detail if asked to, but I based it off of about 50 verses...)
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