Can a Song be too Creative?—part 1

Can a Song be too Creative?—part 1

            When speaking of a song that is a commercial, Bennett Reimer, in his A Philosophy of Music Education (p.48) stated, “If the song were so interesting aesthetically that people forgot the product in their enjoyment of the purely music qualities of the commercial (a rather likely occurrence), the song-writer could justifiably be accused of being “too creative.”  Ministers of music universally claim to be extoling Christ with their music and musicing.  They claim to be bragging on Jesus not hocking their musical wares in front of an audience who came to church to worship God.

            I believe that our worship music is truly extolling God for who He is, what he has done, and what he desires to do for those who love and serve Hi, I believe that this music is analogous to a music commercial.  So, I believe that Christian music can be so creative that the message sent to a worshiping body of believers is about the music and the musicer rather than about the God whom we love and serve.

Thought for the Day

Somewhere between the music part of church music that is so trite that it bores us all musically and music that is so wild and cluttered that it obscures the message of the text is sacred music that provides a quality support and representation of the moral nature of the God we are supposed to be worshiping.