Teaching Our Own to Minister Musically—part 5

Teaching Our Own to Minister Musically—part 5

            As church leaders we must continuously encourage, admonish, and instruct our church musicians to “prophesy” with music.  Now in order to prophesy, the man of God had to discern the mind of God.  It should be pointed out that by the term “prophesy”, I only mean our music should be God’s message to the people.  I do not mean that our music ministry should be divinely inspired or that church musicians in this dispensation receive divinely inspired messages from God.   Note that these musicians were not only seers but also tellers.  These musicians were trained by the fathers of the Levite musicians to seek and find the will and word of Jehovah and tell it to the people through the medium of music. 

            When we look at music ministry from this perspective, we understand that in ancient Israel CHURCH MUSIC MATTERED.  It is my belief that in the 21^st century, CHURCH MUSIC MATTERS.  The reason it matters is that church musicians are still commanded to find the will and mind of the Holy Spirit and then deliver (tell) this message to the church through the medium of music.  Unless our church music presents the Logos Christos (Word 3056 of Christ 5547), it really doesn’t matter very much.  Church music is hollow unless it is a vehicle upon which the Word of Christ rides into the hearts of men and women.