Sacred Music Should be Intense
Music—part 3
Sometimes Christian musicians fail to recognize the
difference
between musical
charisma and divine anointing that God gives to
musicians who are
living a deep life in the Holy Spirit. There is nothing
inherently wrong with
the listener being drawn emotionally into
the musicer’s
performance. However, the Christian musician must
understand that the
ultimate goal of worship is not the audience being
attracted to the
performer’s persona but rather to God.
The performer who is a religious humanist will have a
tendency to believe that music
worship begins and ends
with the performer. There is no philosophical
problem with
performances of sacred music that are intense, but
performing sacred music
in an intense manner should always be for the
purpose of bringing the message of the music part of the
music alive in such
a way that the gospel
message is made real or more clear to the
listener. Performance
intensity should never obscure the message of
the music or draw undue
attention to the musicer.
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