Being
a Conservative Christian Musician- part 4
Some Christian musicians have failed to
recognize that when music has been set into motion, it does its own
communicating because the music part of music has great power to influence the
listener for either for good or evil.
Therefore, Christians need to realize that the concept that music has
great power is not a novel notion hatched up by conservative Christian
musicians who are over protective of traditional church music. Musicologists are aware that as far back as
Plato and Aristotle music philosophers have believed that the musical mode
makes a difference because it communicates meaning to the listener. Furthermore, no music philosopher ancient or
modern has made any sensible hypothesis or musical evidence that would
discredit these ancient musical observations that resulted in the theory that
music does have power.
For centuries music philosophers have written
about their convictions that music has power to communicate moral values to the
auditor. They have over the centuries
elaborated on how music goes about strengthening or weakening these moral
values. Philosophers have not always
agreed about the way music communicates its power to the listener, but
historically, until the twentieth
century, they have almost universally believed that music does have great power
to communicate.
So, when a musician connects music’s power to
God by marrying it to the worship of a holy triune God, that power definitely
makes a reflection on the auditor’s perception of who God is, what He is like,
and what He is capable of doing.
Although music cannot change God’s moral nature, it can change the
listener’s perception of His moral nature when a musician, in a willy-nilly
manner, connects a music style to worship music that represents anything but
wholesome moral or Christian values.
What is often done in jest by a composer, an arranger, or a performer
can become a tool for Satan to distort the auditor’s view of who God is.
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