The Christian Musician Thinks
Differently-part 1
Romans
12:2, “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the
renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and
perfect, will of God.”
The
word transformed (metamorphoo 3339)
used in the second verse of the twelfth chapter of Romans connotes the complete
change that takes place when a Christian presents himself or herself as a
living sacrifice to God. After this
transformation, the Christian looks at life and music differently than the
world looks at it. So perhaps the import
of not being conformed is resisting the world’s paradigm of life and ipso facto music and musicing.
The word renewing, used in the same verse, is
derived from anakainosis (342) means
a complete renovating or reordering of one’s thinking or paradigm (using its
current meaning) about the realities of life.
This renewing of one’s worldview is necessary in order to prove (dokimazo
1381) that the Christian musician’s philosophic worldview is amenable to the
will of God.
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