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With different modern kind of music styles and accompaniment, is this makes Christian music better or worse?
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Permalink Reply by The evidence based Stig on
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No one has argued that you need music to hear God or is on the same level as the word of God. Every service since the year dot has had music and singing, the Bible is filled with instances of people praising God by singing. Services would be very bland without music. Music often helps me open my mind so I can hear his word clearly plus services are about celebration as well as learning.
But this has been about what constitutes Christian music and worship music and what music can do.
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Permalink Reply by Larry M. on
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Any services in which the Lord is in the midst will not be bland.
The Lord opens the hearts and mind not the music.
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The Lord uses the music to open the mind and the heart to him - at least that's been my experience.
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Permalink Reply by John Rogers on
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Hi Darth, I used to think that way too. But after a while I realized that I was depending on my emotional hi to fuel my spirit. ----- Maybe you’re not doing that, I am just using myself as an example here. In reality it’s Gods Word that speaks to us and opens our minds and hearts to him. In other words you don't have to 'feel' something to 'believe' something. I mean what about when I get up in the morning and I don't 'feel' open to the word of God. I don't jump out of bed and scream, "send on the trials Lord". When I get out of bed I say, "Please Lord help me". Does that mean that God has changed? Does it mean that my mind and heart have changed? Or does it mean that my flesh is just weaker in the morning? lol, ------- In other words I can't go by the way I feel, I have to just trust in God’s Word and cry out to him even if my flesh wants to call in and quit my job and then go back to sleep.
Mind over matter my friend. Or Gods Word over physical emotion.
Much Love, Peace, and Blessings to you Darth.
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There are many ways the Lord uses to open hearts and minds to him. Music is just one of them and it is not better or worse than any other.
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This is getting scary now Roy..... :P
In all seriousness, music is powerful. Anyone who has stood among thousands of people all in unison during a song will know what I mean.
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Permalink Reply by RoyW on
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I have attended the Christian men's conferences that used to pack out the football stadiums. The music in those meetings was very loud but very powerful. The ministry was very strong. When thousands of people get together to worship God, it is an unbelievable feeling. You feel like this might be just a little bit of what heaven might be like. That is going to be a wonderful day when we all get together and begin to sing the song of our Salvation. The Bible says that even the angels will fold their wings. I want to be there in that meeting. I have a feeling the singing will be pretty loud on that day.
For some reason God's Word teaches us to make a loud noise unto Him. When you study that out in the Hebrew it is talking about a high decibel level. I don't believe He wants us to harm our eardrums but I do believe He wants us to stretch them to the limit. I certainly don't think that some of the loud music today offends God in anyway. I think that He kind of likes it that way. Yes, it will bring on some emotion but at the right times that is good:
Ps 100:1-2
Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands!
2 Serve the Lord with gladness;
Come before His presence with singing. NKJV
Ps 47:1
Clap your hands, all you nations;
shout to God with cries of joy.
NIV
Ps 47:5-6 God has ascended amid shouts of joy,
the Lord amid the sounding of trumpets.
6 Sing praises to God, sing praises;
sing praises to our King, sing praises. NIV
Ps 66:1 Shout with joy to God, all the earth! NIV
Ps 95:1 Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord;
let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. NIV
Zeph 3:14 Sing, O Daughter of Zion;
shout aloud, O Israel!
Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, NIV
Luke 19:37-38 When he came near the place where the road goes down the Mount of Olives, the whole crowd of disciples began joyfully to praise God in loud voices for all the miracles they had seen:
38 "Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord!"
"Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!" NIVIt is certainly okay to turn the music up. I don't think that is offensive at all to God. I really don't think a loud bass guitar is at all wrong. However, I don't think it is just the music that should be loud at times, it is also that our voices should be raised. We should be shouting from the mountaintops what our Lord has accomplished for us. I guarantee that you will at least on that day. I think when John was allowed to witness what that day was going to be like he had to be given some ear plugs because I don't think those people were singing in a soft voice. There will be a shout on that day like no other shout in the history of mankind maybe even in all of history. The noise will be very loud but we will have our new ears on that day. You're going to need them.
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By the way - to the guys on the drums: you are directed to hit those cymbals hard as He wants the cymbals to clash.
Ps 150:5
5 Praise Him with loud cymbals;
Praise Him with clashing cymbals! NKJV
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Permalink Reply by Carla on
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John, You have raised a very important excellent point... our emotions can very easily carry us away and trick us into 'feeling' we have experienced God when all we have done is had an emotional high... That does happen. That's one reason why it is so important to continually examine ourselves in the light of scripture. IS the music we are listening to causing us to draw closer to the Lord, or take our eyes off of Him, and onto something else. The music must always draw us closer, and for many people it helps them to maintain a focus on Him and His goodness... Are our lives consistently Christian when we walk away from the music? Do we have integrity in how we are living? It is important that we acknowledge the power of music, because it can indeed cause an emotional response.. We cannot go by the way we feel, if that is all we are doing... by examined in the light of scripture, what else is going on in our lives. music is only one small part of that whole. I agree 100%--God Word over physical emotion... But emotion is also part of who we are Created in God's image.. We cannot deny that, or cover it up. That emotion has indeed been tarnished since the fall, but now we are new Creations.. and with our Lord's help, we will be lead to worship Him in many different ways. It must continually be all about Jesus, and there is music out there that is all about Jesus.
my thoughts.. Blessings, Carla
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I agree with you Carla. I think you have explained it better than I. And you’re correct in your assessment about emotion. ------ What if one day we find ourselves in a situation where we don’t have access to our music or our computer or even a television? There are places in this world right now where it’s too dangerous to carry a Bible on your person so believers tear out individual pages and hide them in various places. In a situation like that one can’t depend on music. A time may come (I hope not) when we could be faced with that reality and it won’t be emotions that will get us through it. In a situation like that ‘fear’ will be the emotion we would feel, so better to put our trust in those things we can’t feel. ----- God’s Word endures even when everything that ‘feels’ good emotionally has faded away.
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