Musical and Social Meaning… Part 12
Understanding the total fabric
and landscape of the music a worship leader utilizes in the context of public
worship is essential. How the formal
properties of the music are arranged is important. The ingredients of music
(the fabric of the music) matters, and the associations that surround it giving
it an unavoidable landscape has moral implications. Two brands of medication that help control
gastric reflux were recently pulled from druggist’s shelves because they both
contained a carcinogen. Thousands of
people took this cancer causing chemical because these users blindly trusted
without understanding what the medications contained.
Uninformed church leadership and worship leaders often proceed with the same
blind trust. Ministers of music should
not use music simply because they found it on the shelf of some music store, on
the internet or because using it is trendy.
Remember that the powerful musical discourse in Ephesians chapter 5 is
prefaced by the admonition in verse10, “Proving what is acceptable unto the
Lord” and Ephesians 5:15 also warns, “See then that ye walk circumspectly, not
as fools, but as wise…”
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