Congruency in Our Musicing part 5

Congruency in Our Musicing part 5

            Christian musicians who are conservative in lifestyle are to be commended because such appearance reflects a wholesome public image and a proper image of a representative of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  However, I would like to remind conservatives that hiding behind a conservative lifestyle while performing music that, by its moral implications, is not also a conservative and proper representation of the God whom they are musicing about, is incongruent with the principle of a changed life of a Christian.  Hence, when a Christian performs such music it becomes a form of hypocrisy (the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform).  When I speak of conservative music I mean the music part of the music that they perform as well as the words.

            If a musician believes in separation from the world and believes that this difference must be shown outwardly, that musician should not perform music that is   strongly representative of the world and a worldly lifestyle.  I have never been able to understand why some conservative Christians believe in separation in every area of life except music style.   Such a haphazard approach to separation from the spirit of this world [i.e. aion 165] is a very incongruent music philosophy and must seem quite inconsistent to non-believers who are watching everything that Christians do.  There are several questions that perplex me about what is currently happening in the realm of church music. How can a conservative musician in good conscience believe 2Corinthians 6:17 which very clearly commands, “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,” and make no definite  separation in the way he or she musics unto God? Is separation from the world a misnomer (a wrong or inaccurate use of a name or term) when it come to a Christian’s musicing?  How can conservative Christians who are musicians ignore over a half century of serious concern by a host of careful believers who have observed  the alarming changes that have been made and are currently being made in church music?  Why do so many musicians take their musical cues from liberal church musicians and worse yet—nonbelievers who are not concerned in the slightest bit about spiritual things or the direction of church music?