Instrumental Music in Christian Music Education-part 2

 

Instrumental Music in Christian Music Education-part 2

            Those who have chosen to sing without instruments are philosophically more biblically accurate than those who worship with a praise band with all the instruments amplified to such decibel levels that an observer can see mouths moving but cannot hear a word of the attempted praise offering of the congregation.  The question is not to use or not to us instruments in worship, but rather how a musician uses musical instruments in musicing unto God.

          With that introduction, I will say that the use of musical instruments is so connected and entwined with singing in both the old and New Testament that I can find no reason, based upon the Holy Writ to exclude the use of musical instruments in public worship.  Their use must: have properly controlled volume, be tastefully performed, be appropriately orchestrated, and properly utilized as a *concomitant to and not the master of, congregational singing.