Secular Music Comes under Christ’s Lordship-part 3

 

 Secular Music Comes under Christ’s Lordship-part 3

          There is no biblical conflict created by a Christian including clean secular music, as well as sacred music.  The two do not oppose each other.  There is not anything inherently opposing about music that addresses itself to religious matters and music that does not address itself to religious matters.  One gospel song writer said, “My raptured soul can only sing of Calvary.”  He certainly had the right to exclude all secular music but such a philosophy and praxis in not a Bible mandate.

          One of the unfortunate philosophical positions of some Christian musicians is that all religious music is appropriate in the life of a Christian and conversely that all non-religious music is inappropriate in the life of a Christian.  On the surface it would seem that including only religious music would greatly simplify music philosophy.  This faulty praxis only complicates matters since it removes all need and responsibility of the Christian to prove what is “acceptable unto the Lord”.  This paradigm has spawned a generation of Christian musicians that believe that there are no absolutes, rules, or standards of sacred music.  There is only one guideline – the music has to be religious in nature.  Under this mindset, sacred music is a standardless art that does not have to pass any tests of suitability and appropriateness or correctness or incorrectness. 

 

Thought for the Day

Sometimes Christian musicians ignore the genres of music that deal with temporal things.  At other times they look on love songs as being substandard or beneath the dignity of a Christian performer.  However, these types of music have a valuable place in the life of Christians.  Therefore, they must be included in a Christian’s worldview of the whole of music.