Where Does the “Buck” Stop?

Where Does the “Buck” Stop?  

            When it comes to music and musicing the onus probandi does not fall on the music but rather the musicer.  We often hear Christian musicians whine about how current religious music with its lack of depth of text and its fragmented melodic construction and incessant driving beat.  All or part of these complaints may be correct but the real problem is not found in the music but rather in the musicer who continues to utilize it in the context of public worship.   

            Inferior religious music never affects the worshiping body of believers and seekers if the musicer doesn’t perform it.  It is one thing to complain about the current trendy church music that people like, but that is not an excuse for performing it simply because the worship leader feels pressured to use it in place of a more balanced diet of sacred music.  The way to keep from being pressured to perform inferior religious music is to make quality sacred come alive when it is used in the context of public worship.  So, the “buck stops” with the worship leader.  He or she will be the mental catalyst that will cause the modern worshiper to relate to quality traditional sacred music.