What May Happen if We Remove the Ancient Landmarks?—part 1

 

What May Happen if We Remove the Ancient Landmarks?—part 1

         The last thing that I would ever wish to do would spend my time preparing books on music philosophy that always predict gloom and doom for the future of church music and Christian music education.  However, in the musical discourse of Ephesians chapter five, verses fifteen and sixteen warn Christians to, “See that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” 

When I was being trained in the U.S Army, our instructors drilled us on the concept that, when we were part of a patrol, everyone must walk circumspectly.  That means that, as the patrol advances, every patrol member must be looking at all times and that the patrol as a whole must be looking in all directions at all times.  Certainly that training has proven valuable to me over the past forty years as a conservative Christian musician.  Every time in my life that I have made the conscious decision to exercise caution instead of disregarding time-honored principles of musicing unto God, I have been thankful later.