In his excellent book With Heart and Mouth, Daniel Hyde writes: “When we allow soloists into worship, it is a performance, no matter how well intentioned or biblical the words are. Worship is to be an offering of the people’s praise to the Lord, not the individual’s.” [1]
[1] Daniel Hyde, With Heart and Mouth: An Exposition of the Belgic Confession (Grandville: Reformed Fellowship, Inc., 2008), 431.