What May Happen if We Remove the Ancient Landmarks?—part 2

 

What May Happen if We Remove the Ancient Landmarks?—part 2

       What will we have of value after we remove all the time-honored principles of musicing from public worship?   One thing for sure, we will not recognize public worship in one generation if we as Christian musicians do not exercise some musical caution about adding the profane and subtracting everything traditional from our music worship. There are Bible principles of how-to music unto God.  We may deny that they are in the Bible or we may consider them to have outlived their relevance, but that will never change the fact that they are there, and they are profitable to us in this century.
        We know that the kind and quality of music matters to God.  We know that according to God’s Word, (see Amos 5:23, Isaiah 5:12,14:11) He reserves the right not to hear some music and He considers other music to be noise and states that He will not hear such musicing.  If you have further interest, I have discussed these and other Bible principles of musicing in the books, Music of the Bible in Christian Perspective and Church Music Matters.  So, in conclusion, we may remove all traditional ways of musicing from our so called "worship" but if we do we will be worshiping "we know not what" (St. John 4:22).  We will also be impoverished spiritually by removing these time-honored Bible principles of worshiping through music.