Most People Really Don’t Like Hymns
Just an observation. Most people don’t like hymns. Even the people who say that they do, don’t really like them. What they should say is “I like these 50 (or so) hymns”.
Now I don’t want to say that “Holy, Holy, Holy” or “Amazing Grace” or “Nothing But The Blood” are not great hymns. They are. In fact out of all the hymns that we sing there is only one that I don’t like “He lives” (…”You ask me how I know he lives, he lives within my heat”… NO! Jesus is sitting at the right hand of the father… Sigh).
But try to get “new” hymns added is like pulling teath. “Jesus I Come” and “O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus” are two of the best. But they are not part of that package of 50 (or so) hymns and so we don’t sing them.
I did take me a long time to find this out. Being new to the church I did not notice that when we sing hymns we only sang the same ones over and over. I had a hard time trying to get “Before the Throne” to be song at church. Even when it was it was as a choir song not as a congregation song (I sang along 
). But maybe in another 50 years I will only want to sing “God of Wonders”.. I’m not sure, but it just seems like a shame that we don’t use the rich collection of songs from past generations.