We
have come to the end of the twentieth month of this blog. It is my desire that you now have greater
insights into the Scriptures concerning music in the Bible and Christian music
philosophy and Christian music education.
Parents, ministers of music, and music educators are not always Bible
language scholars and, on the contrary, they have general tendency to avoid
original language study concerning what the Bible has to say about music.
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 hymnology
text without a single concordance or lexicon to study the original Bible
languages. I hope that your word study
appetite has been stimulated until you will at least invest in the standard
works that are now keyed to Strong's Exhaustive Concordance.
As
the second decade of twenty-first century is nearly half over, 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, blog post, or article 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 guide for Christian musicians of the next century. If my blog posts have stimulated you to study
music in the Book of Books, the many hours that it has taken to prepare these
posts have been well spent.
G.L.W.
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