Not only Beautiful but also Suitable—part 11

Not only Beautiful but also Suitable—part 11

            The discourse on a Christian’s “doing” on in James 1:21-27 also teaches Christians to, “… be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.  For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:  For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.”  If the Bible teaches a changed life, and it does, that changed life will doubtlesly included some changes and adjustments in the way a Christian muician musics.

            I am sometimes criticised for not stating what a Christian can and cannot do when he or she musics unto God. If I were to mention exactly what is wrong with some religious music and the way church muicians music, my list of do’s and do nots would be outdated in a short period of time since the way church musicians arrange and perform is ever changing.  One of the most valuable things that an individual, church fellowship, or Chistian educational institution can do is to develop a written series of systematic beliefs concerning the nature and value of sacred and secular music.  To me the peactice of putting out muscal fires as they occur in this century is an ineffectve way to deal with the way one educates and worships.