Why Should We Sing
Gospel Songs? Part 3
If you will remember, Ephesians 5:19
mentions, “Speaking to yourselves in psalms (psalmos-5568) and hymns (humnos-5215)
and spiritual (pneumatikos-4152)
songs (ode -5603), singing and making melody in
your hearts to the Lord:” Although we do
not know with certainty what the pneumatikos
oide were like, I like to think that they may have been somewhat like our
gospel songs.
Those who believe that the content of
gospel songs that are scripturally accurate cannot relate to moderns,
post-moderns, post postmoderns, young people and seekers are testifying that
they do not believe that the good news of the gospel of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ is still relevant or “quick and powerful” (Hebrews 4:12) or that
as Psalm 100:5 declares, “For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and
his truth endureth to all generations.”
Also, those who believe that the demands of Scripture that are
accurately taught in gospel songs are too offensive and too confrontational for
the un-churched seeker are confessing that they are ashamed of the truth
presented in the Bible.
One of the reasons that the New Testament
church thrived spiritually was that, like St. Paul (Romans 1:16), they were not
ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The twenty-first century church should think long and hard about
following a music praxis that denies the use of the gospel presented through
well written, scripturally accurate gospel songs.
No comments:
Post a Comment