Our Responsibility to Teach Our Children

We Must teach Our Own

              Since there are many verses in the Bible like I Chronicles 16:23, Psalm 96:1, and Psalm 144:9 that command us to sing and play music unto God, it only stands to reason that it is our responsibility to teach our children and youth to do so properly. With this in mind, it seems strange to me that so many Christian elementary, secondary schools and Christian colleges and universities graduate students with no music classes or only a class or two that are actually music courses.  

             Christian higher education must give music its historic place  since musicing is a primary means of worshipping God as well as being a *concomitant to the preaching of God’s Word.  Therefore, not only undergraduate music majors, but also ministerial, missions, elementary, and secondary education majors etc. need a dedicated study of music before they enter the world of work.  The reason that college students need a serious study of music is that that in adult life they will be catechizing and or educating worshipers. All worshipers will be involved in worshiping God with music therefore, knowing how to worship will require knowing how to music unto God. This specificity in education can only be given by an educated Christian music educator because one who does not know Christ personally is not capable of teaching others how to music the God he or she does not love and worship.