Communication Must be a Civil Process
It is one thing for
pastors, parents, music ministers, and Christian music educators to have strong
beliefs concerning music but the passing of the baton to the next generation
must be a “civil” process. Long heated
discussions ending in anger and tears seldom get the job done
successfully. Name calling and equating
a young person’s musical tastes with their relationship to Jesus Christ is most
regrettable.
Unwise choices in
music and cultural blind spots in the fine arts should not be equated with a person’s
relationship to Christ. Parents should
not make statements like, “If you ever really come to know the Lord, you won’t
even like that music”. Knowledge of
biblical principles concerning music choices and likes and dislikes of styles
of music are acquired skills not instantaneous gifts of the Spirit to the
born-again Christian. Christian purity
and maturity are not one in the same. A
Christian musician may make unwise choices concerning music ministry as well as
secular music selections and still be honestly trying to bring his or her life
under the Lordship of Christ. It seems
that we are much more able to accept the fact that a Christian has made some
very unwise credit card decisions than we are able to accept unwise music
decisions.
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