No Musical Absolutes --A flawed View

No Musical Absolutes --A flawed View

            What would lead a Christian musician to believe that, when it comes to music making, there are no absolutes?  They honestly believe that music is completely a matter of personal taste.  There is room for taste in church music, but musicing unto God is not all a matter of a musician's tastes.   One thing I will tell you for sure is that all philosophical thoughts concerning music and all music making comes under the absolute authority of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The philosophical musical view that Christian musicians are free to do whatever they wish with their musicing is an autonomous flawed view.

            All committed Christian musicians regardless of their theology, should, no, I mean must, be careful Christian musicians. They are careful in what they think, what they say and what they do.  If they are committed to being Christ like in everything they do in the Lord’s name, that tenderness toward God will include their musicing. I can’t help but believe that tenderness toward our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will cause them to be careful in their musicing, and in their philosophical musical viewpoints.

            There is another aspect of Colossians 1:16 quoted earlier that merits discussion here. All things were not only created by God, but also for God. God created music for his glory not for man’s aggrandizement. Any practical view of music philosophy or music making that is humanistic is an autonomous view and therefore a non-biblical view. In Colossians 1:1-8 we are reminded “...that in all things he might have the preeminence.” God must have the preeminence in our music making. Men like Diotrephes in III John 9 have always hindered the work of God by seeking to be preeminent in the church. Beware of the church musician who is enamored with self.