Every time music director musics, i.e.
“does”, that musician is exercising a part of his or her music philosophy
because all “doing” exudes from beliefs. There is often a difference between
what a Christian musician purports to believe and what that musician’s “doing”
proves about his or her actual beliefs. All you have to do is get in someone’s car,
turn on the radio and punch each of the presets and you will find out in a
hurry what that musician actually believes about music. Robert Berglund said,
“One’s decisions are actually based
on one’s values, that is, the actual
values one has actually determine the kind of decisions one makes.” A
Philosophy of Church Music, by
Robert Berglund p. 8.
So,
we are back to our original question, “What do we do now since many styles of
popular music will not go away?” The
answer is really quite simple. We will
perform music that is in accordance with our actual philosophical beliefs about
the nature and value of music. If a
Christian musician follows a musical path that is questionable, it will be
because that musician believes that what he or she is doing is the right thing
to do. No adult can hide behind the
excuse that he or she was pressured into musicing in a certain manner.
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