Musicians Known by Their Actions

Musicians Known by Their Actions

             In the process of developing a Bible based Christocentric music philosophy and praxis the following should be seriously considered: Who is the center of public worship?  Is it man or God who is honored in the worship experience?  Who receives the preeminence?  Is worship an event or the Christian’s response to God?  Whom should the musician strive to please with his or her musicing?  Is it proper for God to share the glory of the worship experience with a performer?  Should there be any difference in the music part of the music that a Christian musician considers to be sacred or profane?  Are these differences apparent when one musics unto God?  When in a musician’s musicing there is no difference made between sacred music and secular music that is composed to appeal to the lust of the flesh, will this musicing be appropriate and congruent with the purposes of worshiping God?  These questions must be answered by every Christian musician who personally musics unto God and leads others in musicing in the context of public worship.

           So, by a musician’s musical actions, he or she is capable of placing approval on what the world is doing musically that is not   congruent with what the Bible teaches about music and musicing or the changed life of a Christian.  When this happens, Satan effectively closes the mouths of Christian musicians and silences the Christian’s philosophical musical witness.  When music ministers are completely squeezed into the world’s musical mold, these musicians do not have much of anything to say that is philosophically different from those who are antagonistic toward our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, faith based musicing and, of course, placing all musical actions under the Lordship of Christ.   Hence, there is so little being written about faith-based music philosophy.