Christian Musicians Must Maintain a Relationship to God

Christian Musicians Must Maintain a Relationship to  God

 My music blog is often of a devotional nature since Christian musicians need to maintain their relationship to the God we music about when we music on Sunday morning. This blog is also often a discussion about music philosophy rather than a work about music administration.  To put it simply, this work is about thinking about music and musicing rather than about the act of doing it.  That is not to say that there is not a continuing need for writing about how a church musician or a music educator should go about doing what he or she does.  Musicians are doers not merely those who think about doing.  However, a musicer should have a solid faith basis, and more specifically a Bible basis, for what he or she intends to do before doing it.  

So, a musicer who is a Christian should not attempt to music unto God without first having a deep faith in God; a personal relationship with God; and a Bible basis that will shape that musician’s understanding of the nature, value, and meaning of the whole of sacred music and musicing.  Only then will a Christian musician be equipped with the tools that are necessary to develop a faith-based music philosophy that will serve to help guide all of that person’s on-purpose musical doing (praxis).  Although this discussion does not explain how a Christian musician executes his or her music praxis (the on- purpose way of doing music which we call musicing), praxis cannot be totally  omitted from a discussion of music philosophy.  I like to think of music philosophy as a musician’s faith in what he or she believes about doing  music and that music praxis is about works i.e. the on-purpose way that one actually does music. 

It is my prayer that this blog will be helpful to Christian musicians as they continue to music unto God in the presence of a great group of those who experience the Christian music unto God.  I have often said to college choir and symphonic wind and string ensemble members who traveled with me to churches, “You can’t feed others if you don’t partake of the divine fruit yourself.”