Music Values
Pastors, parents,
and music educators have a responsibility to pass our music values on to the
next generation. This process of
attempting to instill the conservative music values in the lives of our
children is many times a painful and unsuccessful endeavor. Although we have a responsibility to share
our values with the next generation, we must be sure that we do the right thing
in the right way.
It is one thing for
pastors, parents, music ministers, and Christian music educators to have strong
beliefs concerning music but the passing of the baton to the next generation
must be a “civil” process. Long heated
discussions ending in anger and tears seldom get the job done
successfully. Name calling and equating
a young person’s musical tastes with their relationship to Jesus Christ is most
regrettable.
Unwise choices in
music and cultural blind spots in the fine arts should not be equated with a
person’s relationship to Christ. Parents
should not make statements like, “If you ever really come to know the Lord, you
won’t even like that music”. Knowledge
of biblical principles concerning music choices and likes and dislikes of
styles of music are acquired skills not instantaneous gifts of the Spirit to
the born-again Christian. Christian
purity and maturity are not one in the same.
A Christian musician may make unwise choices concerning music ministry
as well as secular music selections and still be honestly trying to bring his
or her life under the Lordship of Christ.
It seems that we are much more able to accept the fact that a Christian
has made some very unwise credit card decisions than we are able to accept
unwise music decisions.
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