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Articles on Music and Art

The Power of Music Lately I have found myself strapping on the headphones and just listening, something I used to do often, but have somehow grown to feel guilty about doing. My mind tries to tell me that there are more important things to attend to, but my spirit insists. So I sit or lie down and drink it in enjoying how the speakers in my studio quality headphones pick up every nuance and intricate detail of a well crafted, skillfully played, and tastefully produced musical arrangement. It feeds the spirit and soul in ways that nothing else possibly can.

What Makes Music Christian? Pop culture always looks for the “latest thing.” Christian Culture included! Market- driven churches parade the latest lingo. Seeker Sensitive evangelists seduce secular senses. Black church imitators “get down,” but never “get up.” Gen-X bands even break the “cutting edge” in rebellion against the boomers. And moribund denominations risk throwing in a few “choruses.”
Still, sensitive spirits ask, “What makes music–separate from the text and title–Christian?” Without this answer, music ministries risk relevance without depth. Churches end not only “in the world,” but “of the world.” Rather than the “Word becoming flesh,” the “Flesh becomes the Word.”

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