Secular and Sacred Music-part 1

 

Secular and Sacred Music-part 1

Considering that  all of the muscing in the life of a Christian is a  sacred experience blurs the universal understanding of sacred and secular or sacred and profane music and musicing.  The theological belief that  there is essentially no difference in these two generas when a Christian performs them did not originate from general music culture, but rather from 20^th and 21^st century protestant Christian culture. However, just because a Christian musician’s life is ultimately a life of worship and service to God  does not move secular musicing over into the sacred category philosophically.  

Everything that a Christian musics must not bring a reproach upon the cause of Jesus Christ.  However, it is an error of philosophical judgment to believe that all of a Christian’s musicing is a sacred experience based on the understanding that ultimately a Christian’s life is a life of honor, service, and worship to God.  Everything that a Christian performs is not necessarily sacred musicing. The reason for this understanding of the whole of music and musicing is that some  of the music that Christians perform is not in any way addressed to God as its object, to religious matters, or to direct intentional praise and honor of God. The fact that this type of music and musicing does not have God as its object does not negate the intent of a committed Christian performer to live out his or her life as “a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God.”