Is Music the Power of God?—part 4

Is Music the Power of God?—part 4

            Although worship music should be to “one another” and “to yourselves” it should always function as a musical offering to God and not a musical entertainment for the people.  Since worship music should cause the people to “muse” or think it should never be an amusement.  It should edify (draw the people closer to God) rather than to entertain the congregation.  So, the fact that church music is not the primary communicator of grace does not mean that it is not very important or that it doesn’t matter.  On the contrary, Church Music Matters very much when it comes to the matter of communicating grace.

When music takes preeminence over preaching, as it has in many post-modern churches, that assembly of believers is following a philosophy based on the wisdom of the matrix of this present world not the wisdom which the Holy Ghost teaches.  Postmodern church philosophy considers a longer sermon and a shorter period of singing to be “weak” and therefore unwise.  I Corinthians 1:25 reminds us that, “...the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”