Teaching the
Next Generation to Music--Part 4
An often much overlooked necessity
is studying music seriously. It is no
joke that “knowing is doing”. A
Christian cannot teach what he or she does not know. In our highly educated world today it is
ludicrous for one to try to instruct others in how to music and how to develop
a music philosophy without as much as knowing the names of the lines and
spaces. Being a music consumer does not
qualify one to instruct others in music.
Christians must consider the whole of music. This includes a long broad study or music
which includes both sacred and secular music.
Everyone should have knowledge of classical, folk, pop, jazz, rock,
country and a host of other types of music in order to converse intelligently
with the generations to follow us as pastors, parents, and church
musicians. Anything less than music
literacy and a general understanding of the performance practice of these
styles will dwarf our possibilities of reaching our young people with a
logical, reasonable, explainable, discussible, and practical philosophy of
music.
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