When Conservatives take the Musical Exit Ramps-Part-12

When Conservatives take the Musical Exit Ramps-Part-12

  Romans 12:1 states, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.”  Christian musicians who have presented themselves to God as a living sacrifice do not have musical rights.  A sacrifice does not have rights it only has the responsibility to be a musical servant.  What that means is that the rational (reasonable) thing for a musical servant to do is to be a servant because he or she loves the Master—a willing servant that has placed his or her ear up to the door post and willingly had a hole driven through his ear that signifies that that musician has given up his or her musical rights (see Deuteronomy 15:16-17).  Therefore, church leadership has the responsibility to protect worship rather than to give way to individual musical tastes and style preferences. 

The Christlike paradigm taught in Romans Chapter twelve is that it is the responsibility of the committed servant do present himself.  When a Christian musician pouts, threatens, and resists the problem is on the part of the musician.  Paul’s discussion in the first chapter of Romans teaches that the servant does the presenting of himself before he is able to truly become a living sacrifice.  I submit that God does not take away the committed musical servant’s musical rights, but rather the musical servant gives them up willingly, which is the rational (reasonable thing for him or her to do. Although it is not politically correct to mention it, in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, the servant is a love slave (doulos) who serves willingly. In the AV the word servant is mentioned 462 times in the Bible. The OT slave gave up his or her rights willingly (see Deuteronomy 15:16-17), and the NT Christian also gives up his or her rights willingly (see Romans 12).