Teaching the Next Generation to Music--Part 2
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 would not 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.
How should Christians catechize young people
concerning music? First of all pastors,
parents, music ministers, and Christian music educators should study music in
the Bible thoroughly. Since there are
over 600 references to music in the Bible, there is much to be gained from a
study of Bible music. Remember that II
Timothy 3:16-18 reminds us that:
All Scripture is
given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction,
for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect,
thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
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