As has been said earlier, Christian musicians often
question the necessity of developing a personal system of beliefs concerning
the nature and value of the whole of music.
Furthermore, they often seem to believe that those values set forth by
major public colleges and universities are adequate for Christian
musicians. After all, aren’t the
elements of music the same for Christians and non-Christians? Shouldn't philosophers who have studied it
all their adult lives be better at philosophical pursuit than Christian
musicians? The philosophy of a musician who does not bring his entire musical
endeavor under the Lordship of Christ should never be trusted. The reason is that the purpose of non-Christian
music philosophical basis is different.
Nothing that a Christian musician does musically is driven by the
purpose of glorifying self or consuming music's understanding on one's own
self-aggrandizement.
You can trust an unregenerate musician to be worldly in
his or her philosophical basis.
Remember, direction determines destiny philosophically! Any musician who believes that the end of all
human endeavors is the gratification and actualization of self will ultimately
come to different philosophical conclusions than a musician who believes that
music begins and ends with God.
To the music humanist, musicing begins and
ends with self since it is about his or her true humanness. To the musician who
has submitted his or her musicing to the Lordship of Christ, all church music
is sung and played to glorify God since God owns music. The Christian musician
(if he or she has developed a Christocentric music philosophy) believes that
even when preforming so called "absolute music" it is not, in the
truest sense, "absolute". So, he or she will not perform any style of
music that is not congruent with a Christocentric whole-life philosophy
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