Bible Principles of Musicing (revisited)-part 4

 

Bible Principles of Musicing (revisited)-part 4

            By Bible standards, church music is not all a matter of taste.  The Bible teaches that there are principles that do govern all music practice including both secular and sacred.  It only makes sense that when the Holy Spirit admonishes us in the musical discourse of Ephesians 5 to prove “what is acceptable unto the Lord” that He would also provide from the Word of God principles that would enable us to go about the process of “proving” what is or is not acceptable unto the Lord.

          So, twenty-first century Christian musicians do not need to be “programmed” or “caught in the wheel” since they may choose to retain God in their musical knowledge and be renewed in the spirit of their mind.  Church musicians do not have to accept the world’s music matrix but rather they may elect to believe the principles set forth in the Bible and base a Christocentric music philosophy and praxis on these eternal principles.

          The belief that what the Bible teaches about music and musicing is profitable in the 21^st century is not a poplar view.  As a matter of fact this belief will bring ridicule to the conservative Bible believing Christian musician.  The Christian musician who         believes that the Bible is an accurate reliable historical source, will cause liberal musicians and musicologists and a host of others who have crawled on to the liberal bandwagon not having much if any historical knowledge of ancient sacred music and musicing in ancient Israel to declare that the musician who trusts OT Scripture is either a dunderhead or at least has been hiding under a rock. 

 

            By Bible standards, church music is not all a matter of taste.  The Bible teaches that there are principles that do govern all music practice including both secular and sacred.  It only makes sense that when the Holy Spirit admonishes us in the musical discourse of Ephesians 5 to prove “what is acceptable unto the Lord” that He would also provide from the Word of God principles that would enable us to go about the process of “proving” what is or is not acceptable unto the Lord.

          So, twenty-first century Christian musicians do not need to be “programmed” or “caught in the wheel” since they may choose to retain God in their musical knowledge and be renewed in the spirit of their mind.  Church musicians do not have to accept the world’s music matrix but rather they may elect to believe the principles set forth in the Bible and base a Christocentric music philosophy and praxis on these eternal principles.

          The belief that what the Bible teaches about music and musicing is profitable in the 21^st century is not a poplar view.  As a matter of fact this belief will bring ridicule to the conservative Bible believing Christian musician.  The Christian musician who         believes that the Bible is an accurate reliable historical source, will cause liberal musicians and musicologists and a host of others who have crawled on to the liberal bandwagon not having much if any historical knowledge of ancient sacred music and musicing in ancient Israel to declare that the musician who trusts OT Scripture is either a dunderhead or at least has been hiding under a rock.