How Ancient Chief
Musicians Musiced—part 2
The musicians mentioned in 1
Chronicles chapter sixteen were ministering musicians who were meek and lowly
of heart and were experts in the songs of the self-existent, eternal God who
is! Say, Church Musician, what is your
area of greatest expertise? Do the great
hymns of the church feed your soul? Do
they raise your soul to great heights?
Are they a means of grace to you and the people’s souls that you feed
through music? Do these songs bore
you? Have you given them up for
renaissance madrigals, and Beethoven sonatas or hip-hop and rap?
I believe that the reason so much church
music is dead and lifeless is because the chief musician has lost his burden
for song. He no longer hears from God
about his songs, therefore he no longer prophesies with the songs of the Lord. He is a great conductor, singer, or player
and is too busy performing to ministry to the people. He had so much knowledge of the world’s so
called “great music” or its “pop music”, that he doesn’t have time, desire, or
energy to become an expert in the songs of the Lord.
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