How should a Christian musician go about
developing a philosophy of music? The
first thing to do, in my judgment, would be to read the more than 600
references to music in the Bible. The
safest place to study music is in the infallible inspired Word of God! It would seem that Christians would start by
reading the Bible and studying the
meaning of its many references to music.
Studying how music was used for therapy, false and true worship,
harlotry, weddings, and funerals, should be the basis for understanding how
music was used in public and private worship as well as on secular occasions in
the history of ancient Israel and their neighbors. The Bible also has much to teach us about the
responsibility and process of music education.
Read Revelation
19:12-13 and you will see that Christ, our judge, “whose eyes were as a flame
of fire”, was called “The Word of God”.
So, since we will be judged by the “Word of God”, it behooves us to not
only build our music philosophies on it but also follow it in the enactment of
our duties as Christian musicians. God
is called the Logos Theos (3056 2316) therefore He cannot be separated from
what His word says about music.
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