If you are a conservative Christian you will
be considered a fool by non-believers and most of the church world at large. I Peter 4:4 states, “Wherein they think it
strange that ye run not with them to the excess of riot, speaking evil of
you.” The words excess and riot are
translated from anachusis (401) which means which means “license” and asotia
(810) which means among other things, “unsavedness” unsavory, or debauched. You will be considered strange and foolish if
you refuse to take license or to debauch sacred music in an effort to be trendy
in your music ministry.
As I
see it, you have to make a choice to conform your musicing to the spirit of
this age or to the scrutiny of the demands of Bible principles musicing. If you choose to conform to worldly musical
trends that follow the philosophical spirit of this age, your musicing will not
be congruent with the moral nature of God or to Bible principles of
musicing. (For more on Bible principles
of musicing see my book, Music of the Bible in Christian Perspective}. I am convinced that philosophically a
Christian musician cannot “have his cake and eat it too”.
All of a Christian musician’s musicing
should be congruent with a separated and Christ filled life. I do not understand Christians who are
conservative in lifestyle yet their musical performances are representative of
the music of unbelievers. Why would a
separated Christian want to sound like a secular rock musician who has no
regard for God or what the Bible has to say about music? Many Christian
musicians give verbal ascent to the belief that Christian musicians are in the
world (kosmos) but that they are not in agreement with the “system of this
present age” (aion). However, these
musicians’ musicing is representative of the very system they say they do not
identify with philosophically.
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