Finding Truth in
Music Christian Education Part 2
The first step in developing a music philosophy is to go to the Word of
God. We cannot find wisdom and
discernment in ourselves or in the world around us. It must come from our Heavenly Father first
and foremost. I Corinthians 2:12-16
says, “We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from
God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak,
not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit,
expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.
“The man without the Spirit does not
accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to
him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually
discerned. The spiritual man makes
judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man’s
judgment: For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him? But
we have the mind of Christ.” (NIV) Even as we discover
truth and discern wisdom, our finite minds cannot cover everything. “No
philosophy can be comprehensive in the omnipotent sense of providing the whole
truth and nothing but the truth,” says Garen Wolf. “A philosophy can never say all there is to
say about something. However, a philosophy can and should explain what
something is all about.” (Wolf, Garen, Church Music Matters, 2005 p. 18) Not everyone will have exactly the same lines
of demarcation, but we all must filter our philosophies through the gridlines
of the Bible.
Thought for the Day
It
seem odd to me to me that Christian’s who base their music philosophy on
Scripture are often considered by other Christian musicians to be extremists
and overzealous “proof-texters”. I have found that most often the people who
have a well thought out written music philosophy are careful not to take
Scripture out of context in order to twist into supporting their philosophical
beliefs. GLW
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