God Must Be Lord of All

 

God Must Be Lord of All

A non-descript and fuzzy music philosophy derived from a misunderstanding of the significance of Gen 1:1 will give rise to a faulty musical ministry praxis which is one’s on purposeful way of using music as a secular art form or in one’s church music ministry.  This means that if God, by virtue of ownership, does not become Lord over all of a Christian’s musicing, as an art form and as a musical offering to God in that musician’s music ministry, it will not be very long until God will not be Lord at all over that Christian musician’s musicing.   Because of the causality resulting from faulty music praxis, it will not take very much time until a musician’s music ministry will all become anthropocentric rather than Christocentric.

 

When Christian musicians realize that they do not own, it is much easier to recognize that they are musical servants with responsibilities rather than rights.  Music was created because God willed that it should exist. Therefore, it is not farfetched to come to the logical hypothesis that He still has a will concerning music.  Again we should remember that God created the formal properties of music i.e. the nuts and bolts of music that make it what it is capable of being. However, what a musician does with the formal properties of music is a different matter. When we, as musicians, face Him whose eyes are as a flame of fire we will give a stewardship account of what we did with His musical building blocks.