Who can you trust philosophically?--part 1

As has been said earlier,Christian musicians often question the necessity of developing a personal system of beliefs concerning the nature and value of the whole of music.  Furthermore, they often seem to believe that those values set forth by major public colleges and universities are adequate for Christian musicians.  After all, aren’t the elements of music the same for Christians and non-Christians?  Shouldn't philosophers who have studied it all their adult lives be better at philosophical pursuit than  Christian musicians? The philosophy of a musician who does not bring all his musical endeavor under the Lordship of Christ should never be trusted.  The reason is that the purpose of non-Christian  music philosophical basis is different.  Nothing that a Christian musician does musically is driven by the purpose of glorifying self or consuming music's understanding on one's own self-aggrandizement.

You can trust an unregenerate musician to be worldly in his or her philosophical basis.  Remember, direction determines destiny philosophically!  Any musician who believes that the end of all human endeavor is the gratification and actualization of self will ultimately come to different philosophical conclusions than a musician who believes that music begins and ends with God.

 To the music humanist et. al., musicing begins and ends with self since it is about his or her true humanness. To the musician who has submitted his or her musicing to the Lordship of Christ,  all church music is sung and played to glorify God since God owns music. The Christian musician (if he or she has developed a Christocentric  music philosophy) believes that even when preforming so called "absolute music" it is not, in the truest sense, "absolute". So, he or she will not perform any style of music that is not congruent with a Christocentric whole-life philosophy.