Utilizing Great Music
in Worship part 6
Many church musicians wonder why astute
accomplished musicians are often not involved in church music programs. I believe the main reason is that so many
church music ministries do not include any high quality artistic musical
offerings. A worshiper who has sung a
part in a quality choir in junior high, high school, and college is offended
when a church choir sings only overly simple two part, or worse yet, unison
choral music. Ministers of music need to
understand the importance of having some musical “meat” on the worship table as
well as the diet of musical “frosting” that is so prevalent in many fundamental
Christian churches at present.
The fine arts are not the door to the
kingdom of God, but they are wonderful concomitants of quality musical
worship. Let me be very clear that as
Romans 1:25 explains, we should never worship created things ( ktisis 2937 which includes music) but
always the creator of music ( ktizo
2936 i.e. God). A steady diet of sacred
classics should not be forced upon a congregation with little understanding of
music, but it will not harm them to be introduced to some great sacred classics
once in a while. It will also give those of us that have spent a lifetime
studying and performing great music an opportunity to worship with music at a
much deeper level of import.
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