John Piper wrote a book called Seeing Beauty & Saying Beautifully. Very basically it's a book about why the words we use to express the beauty of God we see revealed to us can, will and should be beautiful in and of themselves. In short, there should be an appropriate elegance to the form of the words we speak that faithfully represents the beauty of the one we are speaking about - as Christians, pastors, worship leaders... And it's true, as demonstrated by the Psalms in particular, there is an instinct to articulate the beauty of God we apprehend in scripture and creation in a suitably elegant way. When the instinct to express our joy at having recognised something wonderful about God, it's simply not good enough to state facts. Yes clarity of thought is always important - to be understood is essential and if we are not it defeats the point. But the truths about God that we learn are often so thrilling that we want to talk about them in as beautiful a way as is appropr