Ideologies Affecting Music and Musicing-Part 2

Ideologies Affecting Music and Musicing-Part 2

            There is nothing inherently wrong with a new style or a new composition or a new way of musicing.  Those who are “antiquers” disdain anything past Watts and Wesley, Ira Sankey and George Beverly Shea.  Never confuse an ancient landmark of musical worship with an old-fashioned way of musicing.  Musical worship is not all a matter of taste but there is room for personal taste in musical worship.  Not every style of music is appropriate for worship but there is room for more than one style of music in Christian worship.

            There is no virtue in being out-of-date!  Resisting the use of percussion, guitars, or keyboards, or church orchestras is not in the slightest bit biblical.  A four hundred thousand-dollar pipe organ does not bring the church closer to God.  The question is not to use or not to use, but rather HOW we use instruments in the church.  Praise teams are not worldly unless the praise team has conformed to the world’s mode of musicing.  There is no virtue in a massive solid oak lectern as opposed to a simple one made of plex-i-glass.