Finding Truth in
Music Christian Education Part 3
A musician’s philosophy is not established to make other people happy,
but to set guidelines for living a Christ centered, God honoring life. Christ must have preeminence in our lives; He
must have lordship over all of our choices and decisions, including music. Francis Schaeffer says, “There is nothing
autonomous- nothing apart from the lordship of Jesus Christ and the authority
of the Scriptures. God made the whole man is interested in the whole man, and
the result is a unity.” (Schaeffer, Francis, Escape from Reason 1968 p. 29)
Part
of submitting to His lordship is considering what God thinks about music. God loves beautiful things, and we bring to
Him our best offerings and abilities, but we do not perform art for the
glorification of art itself. Webber says that the arts are “vehicles for
communication. The arts are not venerated or worshipped. Rather they are used
to communicate truth about God.” (Webber, R, E. Enter his Courts with Praise, 1997, p. 78)
Thought for the Day
The part of music philosophy that deals with
the beautiful has well supported, for centuries, that beauty in the art of
music does matter.
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