Can Graduates Teach What
They Do Not Know?-part 4
The
problem is not fitting such courses into the general education portion of broad
based general education, but rather a lack of the belief that every student
must have an understanding of what the Bible teaches about music and musicing
and have such knowledge interwoven into his or her philosophy of music. Accrediting associations give accredited
member colleges much more general education freedom than many college academic
officers will admit. However, even if
there is not much variety in general education curriculums, Christian colleges
can always require some Bible based music courses as a part of all professional
programs.
Music
has become the “war department” in multitudes of churches in the last half of
the 20th century and now in the second decade of this century. Every church deserves to have a senior pastor
and a minister of music that both have a thorough understanding of Bible
principles of music and musicing.
Furthermore, these pastors and ministers of music must be able to
utilize this knowledge in a well-developed Bible based ministry
philosophy. Churches cannot expect
secular universities to provide Bible based curricular offerings for pastors and
ministers of music. However, they have the right to expect Christian colleges
and universities to provide and require such offerings of each of their
graduates. If this were to happen, much
of the shared ignorance would cease, and Churches would be much better equipped
to face this post postmodern world.
Thought
for the Day
You can tell what a pastor really
believes about musicing unto God by listening to what he puts up with musically
from his worship leader.
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