Choose a Music Mentor Wisely

 

Choose a Music Mentor Wisely

The process of developing a Bible based Christocentric music philosophy in this century is very complex since there have been major changes in church music based on what Christian musicians do as opposed to what has for centuries been the guiding principles that have governed all sacred musicing.  For this reason, the Christian musician must only allow himself or herself to be mentored by a musician whose musical  praxis is congruent with Bible principles of music and musicing, and whose musical life actions are congruent with the changed life of a Christian.  The young Christian musician must remember that what a music mentor does is just as important as what that musician says about music and musicing.  When it comes to those whom one trusts, the Christian musician must choose wisely.  Musical actions speak much more loudly than words. 

A large number of Christian musicians have grown silent about music and musicing because they have been so squeezed into the world’s mold of musicing that this conformation has caused them to order their musicing in the same manner that the world musics.  When a Christian performs the same music (with a religious text) in exactly in the same manner as the world performs secular music that is designed to appeal to “”the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life” (St. John 2:16), without regard for it whether it is appropriate to be a concomitant to Christian worship, that musician is failing to make any difference between the sacred and the profane. This lack of distinction has caused much confusion about the purpose of what should actually happen in public worship.