Not only Beautiful but also Suitable—part 5

Not only Beautiful but also Suitable—part 5

          At this point in this discussion you are possibly anxious to know how one is to go about insuring that his or her sacred musicing is “suitable to the subject”.  As I stated earlier sacred musicing is not only about beauty but also about suitability.  Suitability connotes profundity when one is considering sacred music and musicing.  Choosing profundity over banality is a matter of the wise Christian making prescriptive choices of which music he or she selects as the best possible musical offerings to present to God.   

         A laissez-faire attitude about the musical offerings that a Christian musician presents to God gives possible rise to the musician’s musicing becoming autonomous.  The attitude of no rules and no regulation has permeated the music ministry of postmoderns and now post-postmoderns in this century.  One of the problems that some Christian musicians have today is that they consider themselves music artist performers rather than musical servants.  When you hear a musician say words like “my music”, my style”, “my rights” and” my performance” you know that this church musician owns the music he or she performs and that this person is a religious humanist.  Any time that a musician is preoccupied with developing his or her human potential musical servanthood is low on that musician’s priority list.  Personal performance aggrandizement will be the covert and overt goals rather than being a “good and faithful servant” (see Matthew 25:21 and 23).