Putting Specifics to What One Believes-part 2

 

Putting Specifics to What One Believes-part 2

As to the issue of naming names, St Paul mentioned Demas in 2Timothy 4:10 and in Galatians 2:11 Paul mentions Peter, ”But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed”.  Note that Paul mentioned people by name in his letters to other Christians.  Certainly modern thought would consider that St, Paul was not politically correct, but I would remind the reader that he wrote these letters under the inspiration of the blessed Holy Spirit.  It is one thing to think about what is right and wrong with religious music, but it won’t do much good if we do not share, in love, that knowledge with other Christians.

1John 4:1 teaches, “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”  It seems that almost everyone is an expert on church music in this century.  Just as prevalent is the notion that worship leaders have heard from God that this or that way of musicing is “of the Spirit”.  Certainly, what 1John teaches in the fourth chapter of his epistle is apropos today.  Every worship leader is responsible to “try the spirits whether they are of God”.  A wise man once said, “You should believe almost none of what you hear and only about half of what you see”.