Teaching the
Next Generation to Music--Part 4
An often much overlooked necessity is
studying music seriously. It is no joke
that “knowing is doing”. A Christian
cannot teach what he or she does not know.
In our highly educated world today it is ludicrous for one to try to
instruct others in how to music and how to develop a music philosophy without
as much as knowing the names of the lines and spaces. Being a music consumer does not qualify one
to instruct others in music.
Christians must consider the whole of music. This includes a long broad study or music
which includes both sacred and secular music.
Everyone should have knowledge of classical, folk, pop, jazz, rock,
country and a host of other types of music in order to converse intelligently
with the generations to follow us as pastors, parents, and church
musicians. Anything less than music
literacy and a general understanding of the performance practice of these
styles will dwarf our possibilities of reaching our young people with a
logical, reasonable, explainable, discussible, and practical philosophy of
music.
Thought for the Day
Why is it that many Christians both
young and old believe that II Timothy 3:16, but have never considered that its
truth extends to the whole of music? It
is over simplistic to pick and choose which verses on music to believe. The fact that the Holy Writ and what it
teaches is many times difficult to understand and interpret in the light of modern
twenty fist century post-postmodern culture does not give a musician the right to ignore the Bible’s
teachings on music and musicing. 1Cointhians
13:12 explains very vividly, “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am
known.” The fact that, as 1Corinthians
13:9, “For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.” does not give us the
right to ignore the truths taught in the Holy Writ about music.
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