Sunday, March 30, 2014

Keeping Music Education Christian Part 2


Keeping Music Education Christian Part 2

How does an educational institution insure that the music education a student receives is truly a CME?  Philippians1:9-10 states, “And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ; Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.”  Ephesians 5:8—10 states,  “For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)  Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.”

The passage of Scripture in the first chapter of Epistle of St. Paul written to the Philippian Christians by his scribe Ephaphroditus includes some words of words that have been the source of mush discussion over the centuries.  In verse nine Paul uses the words knowledge (epignosis 1922-discernment) and judgment (aesthesis 144-perception).  So, it is my belief that one of the ways to keep CME Christian and on course is to allow the Holy Spirit to guide and increase the Christian’s musician’s philosophical discernment and perception.  This discernment and perception concerning the deepest levels of the nature and value of music, will enlighten the Music educator in what is really important in the music education process of those being educated musically.

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