A Christian musician’s worldview and,
as a concomitant of this view the musician’s musical worldview, will shape his
or her music philosophy. The way that a
musician perceives music’s place and importance in education, church, home, and
“community” will determine what he or she considers the reality of the nature
and value of the whole of music. It is
my opinion that a Christian musician’s music philosophy cannot be developed
beyond how he or she views music in the larger pictures of church, home, and
community.
I have observed that often what a
musician says he or she believes about music and how that musician actually
musics is often somewhat different.
I believe that this disparity is
generally caused by the musician’s worldview of music and, based on the reality
of that view, what the musician believes
music will or will not do to his or her whole life. Furthermore, I contend that, based on the
notion many Christians have that music is not capable of harming a Christian
spiritually, many Christian musician’s worldview becomes clouded by skewed
perception and thereby these musicians develop a false view of music’s power to
affect the whole life of Christians.
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