Graduates Cannot Teach
What They Do Not Know-part 3
The problem is not fitting such
courses into the general education portion of broad-based general education,
but rather a lack of the belief that every student must understand what the
Bible teaches about music and musicing and have such knowledge interwoven into
his or her philosophy of music.
Accrediting associations give accredited member colleges much more
general education freedom than many college academic officers will admit. However, even if there is not much variety in
general education curriculums, Christian colleges can always require some Bible
based music courses as a part of all professional programs.
Music has become the “war department”
in multitudes of churches in the last half of the 20th century and
now in the second decade of this century.
Every church deserves to have a senior pastor and a minister of music
that both have a thorough understanding of Bible principles of music and
musicing. Furthermore, these pastors and
ministers of music must be able to utilize this knowledge in a well-developed
Bible based ministry philosophy. Churches
cannot expect secular universities to provide Bible based curricular offerings
for pastors and ministers of music. However, they have the right to expect
Christian colleges and universities to provide and require such offerings of
each of their graduates. If this were to
happen, much of the shared ignorance would cease, and Churches would be much
better equipped to face this post postmodern world.
Thought for the Day
You
can tell what a pastor really believes about musicing unto God by listening to
what he puts up with musically from his worship leader.
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