All
too many musicians' libraries consist of a host of volumes on music history,
theory, literature, a few volumes of hymn stories, and their favorite hypnology
text without a single concordance or lexicon to study the original Bible
languages. I hope that your word study
appetite will be stimulated until you will at least invest in the standard
works that are now keyed to Strong's Exhaustive Concordance.
Now
that we are in the twenty-first century approaches, you will need to not only
be prepared spiritually and musically, but also have a deep understanding of
the significance of music in the Bible.
It is important that you be able to understand the music of the Bible in
Christian perspective. I Corinthians
2:12-13 states, "Now ye have received, not of the spirit of the world, but
the spirit which is of God; that ye might know the things that are freely given
to us of God. Which things also we
speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost
teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual."
No
book, journal article, or blog post written by man will be able to completely
guide church musicians in the twenty-first century. Only an understanding of what the Book of
Books has to say about sacred music will serve as a completely trustworthy guide
for Christian musicians in this century.
It is my prayer that my blog will serve as catalyst to stimulate you to
study music in the Book of Books, and that you will read the excellent materials
that has been written about music and Christian music philosophy in the late
twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. If you are not familiar with
writings that can be trusted, check on my blog under Recommended Resources
which is found directly under the Blog Face.
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