The “Roaring 2020’s

 

The “Roaring 2020’s

Will the decade beginning this year be the beginning of a decade that we can term the “Roaring 2020’s”.  “The 1920s in the United States, called “roaring” because of the exuberant, freewheeling popular culture of the decade. “The Roaring Twenties was a time when many people defied Prohibition, indulged in new styles of dancing and dressing, and rejected many traditional moral standards.”  https://www.dictionary.com/browse/roaring-twenties   

               One hundred years ago the roaring 20’s also included new freedoms in music.  Liberated and hedonistic social behavior and the development of jazz and ragtime.  The attitude of many people was termed “roaring”  for many reasons but new music freedoms were very much a part of these new rebellions.

          I am concerned that churches who have resisted destructive musical changes for many years are beginning to capitulate due to weariness and a lack of solid Bible based, faith-based music understanding.  Because of the philosophical confusion that pervades conservative churches at the onset of the 2020’s, many pastors and church boards do not have the philosophical equipment that is absolutely necessary to ward off the current  musical freedoms that that are so pervasive at the beginning of this “Roaring” decade.

Thought for the Day

If your church does not have a written series of systematic statements concerning the nature, value and meaning of both secular and religious music, your fellowship of believers is most vulnerable to the flood of secular musical influences that have the propensity to vilify and debauch sacred music in your church.