Itinerate Musicians Who Were Sacred Music Experts-part 2

Itinerate Musicians Who Were Sacred Music Experts-part 2

            We all want God to preserve and protect us as Christian musicians.  Therefore, we should follow this ancient tradition of not only being sacred musicers but also raining others to sing and pay sacred music.  If Christians had followed this anciently established tradition, church music would not be in the confused mess that it is in today.  The baby boomers (my generation) is quick to blame the near collapse of efficacious sacred music in many churches on this generation of musicians, but this problem stared on the baby boomers watch.

            There was also a tradition of secular musicians in ancient Israel which is mentioned very briefly in Ezra 2:65, “Beside their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and there were among them two hundred singing men and singing women.”  I mention this fact because some Christian leaders blame all the problems of church music on secular musicians.  Secular music is not the cause of all of the problems that have arisen in the past century and are with church music today.  The problem is that Christians have turned their children’s musical training over to these “Philistine” musicians.  Remember that in ancient Israel the church accepted the responsibility to instruct their young men in how to music unto the LORD.