There
is nothing wrong with a Christian musician’s desire to get along and not being
the one who makes waves concerning how a particular Christian community desires
to music unto God. However, there are
times when a musician cannot have fellowship with the unfruitful works of
darkness, but rather he or she must reprove them.
It is never enjoyable to have conflict
but it is sometimes necessary if Bible principles of musicing are being
violated or if the music styles and the way they are being enacted are in
conflict with principles of the changed life of a Christian. Association does matter because when a
Christian community aligns itself too closely with the way the world musics it
belies the very thing that a changed life of a Christian represents.
In
the last half or the 20th century moderns became very vocal with the
false notion that those who would not lay down and play dead when a new trendy
way of musicing was forced on a body of believers were trouble makers who were
out of step with reality. “Wherein they
think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking
evil of you: Who shall give account to
him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.” (1 Peter 4:4-5) So, those who have desired to
continue worshiping is traditional ways are now considered to be “strange”
because they resist destructive musical change.
All that Satan needs to accomplish is the silencing of the quiet
majority and His stratagems will soon be permeating public musical worship.
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