Second,
the Christian musician who is performing the psalms, hymn, and spiritual songs
does so as a vehicle for giving thanks to God the Father by the mediatorial
agency of God the Son. We should not
forget that musicing unto God is always done as a performance. However, performing music for God’s glory is
a much different performance than performing for the aggrandizement of the
performer. The Christian musician should
consider all sacred musicing to be musical offerings unto God. All this musicing should be musicing about
God that is strictly for God.
Although
it is hard for many Christian musicians to view all sacred musicing as musical
offerings rather than artistic musical sacrifices made unto God, that is
exactly what they should be. A
historical look at music in the Temple in ancient Israel reveals that the
evites did not consider sacred music to be an art form as we do in Western
culture today. It appears that ancient Temple
musicians viewed it as a means of connection with JHVH. Also, they considered their music to be a
sacred trust that was at the center of all their musicing.
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