A Christian Music Educator’s Worldview of Music part 3

A Christian Music Educator’s Worldview of Music part 3

The way that a Christian music educator views the world will strongly influence how he or she views music and musicing in this world, and that view will strongly influence how the students that he or she teaches will view music an musicing. In St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans (12:1-2)  he gives a strong admonishment to those who are Christians,  “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable (logikos 3050- rational or logical) service.  And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”  The words “not conformed” (me suschematizo 3361, 4964) teach us that, in the process of presenting ourselves to God, we must not let ourselves be fashioned into the pattern of the world’s paradigm.