As
I have said so often, no one can perform or listens to music in a bubble or in
a vacuum. Every musician and every
listener brings something to the experience of musician or music listening. What each person brings to the music
experience will trigger thoughts during the musical experience. Also, although
it may seem possible for a musician or a listener to have an almost mindless
musical performance or listening experience, such a phenomenon has never been
proven to actually be possible. Even
though a listener may place his or her hands over both ears or wear ear plugs. some
of the music will be experience by seeing it performed and feeling its
reverberations. Therefore, music will
communicate something to everyone who hears and performs it unless that person
has serious impairments that prevent seeing, hearing or feeling.
Since all musical actions do matter, it is
every Christian musician’s responsibility to consider what the purpose of the
music is before it is ever performed. Proverbs
22:6 instructs us to “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is
old, he will not depart from it.” It is
much too late to try to convince adults that the music they have been listening
to and performing since childhood is destructive to their spiritual lives. The scripture above explains that the right
time to begin correct training is during childhood and that the promise of an
adult who does not depart from “the way he should go” is given to those who
begin and by implication continue this instruction throughout childhood. The word translated train up (chanak, 2596) means literally to narrow
and figuratively too initiate or discipline.
So, the promise is not given to the liberal minded parent or teacher,
but rather to those who discipline the minds of the children under their tutelage.
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