Can Music Transform the Musician? Part 2

Can Music Transform the Musician? Part 2

            The place that I began to part philosophic agreement with Elliott’s answers to human need is his fourth point “the positive empowerment and transformation of people and their everyday lives.”  My thoughts were immediately drawn to St Paul’s statement in Romans 12:1 and 2, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed (metamorphoo 3339) by the renewing (anakainosis 342) of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” 

            I find no place in the Bible where it teaches that people will experience a metamorphoo through community efforts with music.  Although I have no quarrel with Elliott’s belief that musicians can serve positive causes with their musicing student’s lives will never be transformed by musicing.  Human need and condition can only be transformed by a metamorphoo by the mercy and grace of God being applied to a person’s heart.