The first step in developing a music philosophy is to go to the Word of God. We cannot find wisdom and discernment in ourselves or in the world around us. It must come from our Heavenly Father first and foremost. I Corinthians 2:12-16 says, “We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.
“The
man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of
God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because
they are spiritually discerned. The
spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject
to any man’s judgment: For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may
instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.” (NIV) Even as we discover
truth and discern wisdom, our finite minds cannot cover everything. “No
philosophy can be comprehensive in the omnipotent sense of providing the whole
truth and nothing but the truth,” says Garen Wolf. “A philosophy can never say all there is to
say about something. However, a philosophy can and should explain what something
is all about.” (Wolf, Garen, Church Music Matters, 2005 p. 18) Not everyone will have exactly the same lines
of demarcation, but we all must filter our philosophies through the gridlines
of the Bible.
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