Thinking Through What Really Matters-part 2

 

Thinking Through What Really Matters-part 2

That being said, those who are responsible for safe-guarding corporate Christian worship have the right and responsibility to set guidelines for how a particular Christian fellowship of believers will music unto God.  Frankly, that means that there some ways of musicing must be rejected because of their destructive influence.  When we stand at the judgement before Him whose eyes are as a flame of fire (Revelation 1:14b) we will give an account for what matters in church music.  Since Church Music Matters and all music in the life of a Christian matters so much, a Christian must define philosophically just what his or her musical convictions are.  It is my belief that we may be required to give up some of our musical preferences, but we cannot remain true to true truth and give up our convictions concerning music that are Bible based.

For instance, if every church in the world denies the virgin birth, the deity of Christ, the inspiration of the whole Bible, the inerrancy of all Scripture they are all still true.  If the whole world denies that the music part of Church Music Matters, it still is true.  I believe that God demands that we stand up for truth concerning church music.  We must be like the energizer bunny.  We must keep going and going and going and going and going...  If it takes a constant fight to ensure that we preserve our Christian heritage of music by rejecting trends and methods of musicing that are destructive to Christian worship, we must keep fighting and fighting and fighting and fighting…