Does the end really justify the
means? First of all is it intellectually
honest to present the Savior with the sensual?
Is it feasible to excite people with sensuality and then try to switch
to the spiritual realm? Is it possible
to draw attention to a woman’s body with a low cut dress or a slit up the side
of her skirt or by dressing her in tight leather pants and then hit these needy
sinners with the good news of the gospel?
Can a man dressed in tight jeans and a muscle shirt or a shiny silk
shirt unbuttoned to reveal his chest hair moving back and forth with sexual
like movements suddenly hook the crowd with the excellent message of “Jesus
Saves”?
I
contend that most definitely the end does not justify the means. It is deceitful to try to sell the sacred
with sexual innuendos. It is an ancient
Bible landmark that, in our musicing, we should always lift up God and never
self. Jeremiah 48:10a warns, “Cursed be
he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully…” Ramayah
(7427) connotes doing any part of God’s work with falseness or guile.
Getting an audience’s attention by the use of any technique that has sexual
connotations is, of course, false because the performer is behaving “unseemly”
(aschemoneo 807) i.e. in an
unbecoming or uncomely manner.
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