At various times I have written about children’s music
being a bane or a blessing. When I attend
a worship service in a church and the music sounds like a local dance club, I
expect that if I visited the children’s worship that the music would also sound
like a local disco. However, I am always
puzzled when conservatives allow their children’s music to sound exactly like
the music of this world.
I wonder
how conservatives expect children to experience a strong diet of hard rock,
techno pop, rap, and a host of other styles of music and then grow up to be
hymn lovers. If children’s music does
not need to be of a higher renovated character than the secular music of the
unsaved musicians of this world system, then a host of other things that
conservatives consider to be essential are most probably not important either.
When are
conservatives going to wake up to the fact that music styles entwined with the message of
salvation reflect lifestyle as much as wearing shorts and a halter to a worship
service reflects what a Christian
actually believes about modesty..
Does lifestyle matter? Yes, it
does very much. A Christian’s music and
musicing reflects what a Christian actually believes. So every child’s music pastor must come face
to face with what music styles are teaching children about what that musician
believes about music’s ability to communicate.
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