The Work of the Holy Spirit in Music ministry-Part 2
Yesterday we began a series of posts about how Christian musicians need the Holy Spirit in their music ministry. Today and for several days to come we will continue that discussion. It is my belief that discussions of contemporary music in the church, rock music in the church and a host of other topics concerning the various ramifications of church music ministry are valuable to everyone involved in churches, Bible colleges, and Christian day schools. However, these discussions are what one may call "problematic" or "symptomatic" i.e. they deal with problems in church music and not necessarily the cure. Put another way, they deal with the "fruit" of the problem rather than the "root". We need to deal with not only what is wrong with church music, but what is right with church music. It is my belief that there is a wonderful positive cure found beneath the root of the multiplicity of problems arising in church music. The cure to many problems in church music is found in the divine influence of the Holy Spirit upon the musician and congregation alike.
Yesterday we began a series of posts about how Christian musicians need the Holy Spirit in their music ministry. Today and for several days to come we will continue that discussion. It is my belief that discussions of contemporary music in the church, rock music in the church and a host of other topics concerning the various ramifications of church music ministry are valuable to everyone involved in churches, Bible colleges, and Christian day schools. However, these discussions are what one may call "problematic" or "symptomatic" i.e. they deal with problems in church music and not necessarily the cure. Put another way, they deal with the "fruit" of the problem rather than the "root". We need to deal with not only what is wrong with church music, but what is right with church music. It is my belief that there is a wonderful positive cure found beneath the root of the multiplicity of problems arising in church music. The cure to many problems in church music is found in the divine influence of the Holy Spirit upon the musician and congregation alike.
This
may surprise you, but I am convinced that there is only one safe teacher
concerning church music, and furthermore, His name isn't Garen Wolf! He is the
Blessed Holy Spirit. I Corinthians 2:12-16 states:
Now we
have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God;
that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things
also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy
Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things
of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know
them, because they are spiritually discerned. [This man is ever learning, never
coming to the knowledge of truth.] But he that is spiritual judgeth all things,
yet he himself is judged by no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord,
that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. (Statement in brackets, mine)
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