When Conservatives take the Musical Exit Ramps-Part-8

When Conservatives take the Musical Exit Ramps-Part-8

Some conservatives seem to believe that the Christian has an iron spiritual exoskeleton that makes us impervious to the dangers of following the ways of the world when it comes to music and musicing?  Do we now believe that the way that the world orders things will not have a negative effect on us because our spiritually impervious exoskeleton will cause the effect of the ways of this world to slide off of us like water off of a duck’s back?  How can conservative pastors and church boards accept Jesuit philosophy that purports that “the end justifies the means” regardless of what their musicing has the propensity to do to the worshiper and what association with these styles of music and musicing says to our children and our young people who attend our worship services? 

As a prelude to the great musical discourse in Ephesians  chapter five, St. Paul, under divine inspiration, gives these admonitions:  1.  Eph 5:10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.  2. “have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them”  3.  “See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,”  4. “be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is”,  5.  “be filled with the Spirit”.  As we begin what I believe will be the “Roaring 2020’s” for the church world, we must not go down the slippery slope of ordering our music and our musicing in the same way that the world, who is performance and market oriented, orders it.