Who can we trust philososophically?-part 5

Certainly Christian musicians should walk “circumspectly” and reject any autonomous music philosophical basis that purports that music is amoral.  If it is amoral then church music doesn’t matter.  If church music doesn’t matter, then it is not an effective form of worship.  Therefore, it is not capable of being efficacious.  I believe that just as James 5:16b says, “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” I believe that the effectual fervent musicing of a righteous man or woman also avails much.  Why?  Because just like prayer, sacred music is given as an offering unto God  for his glory.  Therefore, it is a means of grace to the believer just like prayer.  That is one of the reasons why Church Music Matters so much!

Because all Music Matters, it must be philosophically accountable to God.  Since Christians do not exist in an absurd purposeless universe, all music making has moral purpose. I'm not saying that secular music is sacred. I simply mean that it is not experienced  in some kind of autonomous bubble outside of the lordship of Christ. So, the fine art of music does not escape moral purpose or the Lordship of Christ and furthermore, there is nothing purposeless in the life of a Christian. 

Church Music Matters and so does all music in the life of a Christian (or for the unregenerate for that matter).  It is not hard for many Christians to conceptualize the fact that Church Music Matters, but it is often very difficult for some Christians to understand how or why secular music matters. One of my philosophical presuppositions is that when it comes to secular and sacred music it is not “either or” but rather “wise choices” of both.  A Christ centered music philosophy must include a unified system of philosophical beliefs concerning the nature and value of the whole of music that will serve as a praxis for all of a Christian's musicing..  This  music praxis must include wise choices of  both secular music and sacred music.