Why Is Worship Music So Repetitive? Jason Soroski jasonsoroski.wordpress.com 2021 10 May As a worship pastor, one of the main arguments I have heard over the years is that there is a lot of singing and that modern worship is too repetitive. It is difficult to imagine what heaven must be like, but Scripture gives us a few glimpses. It turns out that one of the things we should expect is a lot of singing. From what I see in Revelation 4:8, that includes a lot of repetitive singing. “Each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around, even under its wings. Day and night they never stop saying: ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come'” (Revelation 4:8). So what is the deal with repetitive worship music, anyway? Lyrical repetition is not something new: repetition has been a staple of Western church music dating back to before the Reformation, and certainly since we have been singing in Modern English, which we started doing somewhere around the year 1550.