Passing Our Music Values on to the Next Generation – Part 9

Passing Our Music Values on to the Next Generation – Part 9 

            It seems odd that Bible college boards cannot seem to see that the greatest threat to public worship as we know it now is church music.  Many college boards and administrations desire that young people develop a conservative tradition of church music while at the same time they require little or no church music courses in the broad-based general education of all degree programs.  Church music is the “war department” of more churches than any one other single issue affecting public worship today.  Music has split and divided many Christian fellowships in the last quarter of the twentieth century.  With this fact being common knowledge, thousands of Bible colleges and Christian Liberal arts colleges are still graduating church leaders with a meager two hours of church music.  Many Bible colleges do not require any church music in the core curriculum of all students. 

            Music has divided the senior adults from  the baby boomers until the millenials so severely that they can no longer worship together.  Now we have three factions separated by church music – seniors, baby boomers and baby busters.  In the history of evangelical Christians, nothing has ever been able to separate, alienate, isolate, and divide the different age groups except music style.  Admittedly, the solution to all church music problems is not more hours of music in college.  However, a more thorough understanding of church music would help to better prepare Christians for the Lord’s work.