There is little question that the first Christians wrote hymns to Christ and sang them in their worship side by side with the psalms they sang as fulfilled prophecies of the coming messiah. In fact, very shortly after New Testament times, we read in one of the letters of the Roman governor Pliny the Younger (61–ca. 113) to the Emperor Trajan (53–117) a short description of a Christian worship service. It clearly says that the Christians sang hymns to Christ.
