The Bible College and Music Philosophy—part 3
It seems ludicrous that Bible
college boards cannot seem to see that the greatest threat to public worship as
we know it now is church music. Many
college boards and administrations desire that young people develop a
conservative tradition of church music while at the same time they require
little or no church music courses in the broad based general education of all
degree programs. Church music is the
“war department” of more churches than any one other single issue affecting
public worship today. Music has split
and divided many Christian fellowships in the last quarter of the twentieth
century. With this fact being common
knowledge, thousands of Bible colleges and Christian Liberal arts colleges are
still graduating church leaders with a meager two hours of church music. Many Bible colleges do not require any church
music in the core curriculum of all students.
Music has divided the senior adults
and the baby boomers so severely that they can no longer worship together. Now we have three factions separated by
church music – seniors, baby boomers, baby busters and net-geners (millennials). In the history of evangelical Christians,
nothing has ever been able to separate, alienate, isolate, and divide the
different age groups except music style.
Admittedly, the solution to all church music problems is not more hours
of music in college. However, a more
thorough understanding of church music would help to better prepare Christians
for the Lord’s work.
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