Even though you may not be consciously thinking or listening to the lyrics, it will still steep into your heart and mind. Listening to secular music that is not God glorifying can impact how you feel and behave. It can also impact the words that come out of your mouth when you are frustrated or angry. If you believe in Jesus, then your desire should be to glorify God, grow closer to Him, and worship Him both with your attitude and actions so that you can reflect the image of Christ to others around you.
Parallel to this third question, another great question to ask yourself is, am I upholding the truth? What am I allowing into my life that affects my worldview and beliefs about God, humanity, the world, and eternity? God is heartbroken over sinful things. When listening to music, or watching a movie or video on YouTube, or playing a video game, ask yourself, is God brokenhearted over this?
Recently, some kids overseas that I know made a music video where they sang the lyrics of a popular pop culture song. I was shocked at the words they were singing and my heart broke thinking about how easily influenced they are by the world. Think about our young generation today and what is influencing them.
Is God broken over the things they are believing and listening to? What you allow to occupy your mind and thoughts will eventually affect your actions and words.
This is why we must be careful about what music we listen to so that we can establish healthy thought patterns. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ.
It is important to think critically about what music you are listening to. Every song you listen to has a hidden worldview in it that presents what the writer of the song believes.
If you have answered yes to the first two questions and discovered that the type of music you listen to influences your behavior in a positive way, then ask yourself, what redemptive truth is in this song? Philippians talks about dwelling on things that are of the Lord. This applies to the songs you listen to. Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you. Not only are you to practice dwelling on the things that are honoring and pleasing to God, but in doing so, the peace of God will be with you.
In conclusion, some secular songs may be okay to listen to, but other secular songs are not redeemable because they are against God and everything He stands for. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Instrumental music can fall into both Christian and secular categories. With instrumental music, it depends on how the music makes you feel and what impact it makes on you. In addition to the question above, here are some questions to ask yourself about secular instrumental music:. Movie soundtracks can be triggers that remind you of certain scenes.
Do you need to be dwelling on that all of the time? Classical and jazz are usually safe to listen to, however, it still depends on if it is glorifying to God and how it impacts you. For me, instrumental music without any words can be very emotional and make me feel many things. I love instrumental music for this reason, but I still have to be careful about what I listen to. There is nothing in the Bible that tells us we should not listen to secular music. Worship was perceived at that time as being only contemplative and sober and the music of the church reflected that.
This controversy runs like a sticky thread through the entire history of the institutional church. It has no basis in Scripture whatsoever but in tradition and culture. Calvin condemned the pipe organ as being profane. Luther loved it. But when he composed this masterpiece he was roundly condemned in conservative pulpits all over London. How dare he profane the Word of God by using the same musical motifs employed in Italian operettas? And to make matters worse, he premiered this work NOT in the church but in the theater—a house of secular entertainment.
To many Christians this was shocking and offensive. Charles Wesley had the same mindset that Luther had. Make church music singable, hummable, simple and melodic—but with profound theological lyrics. Move forward to the last century and we see the emergence of gospel song writers who hijacked popular music and did the same thing. During the sixties, Ralph Carmichael scandalized the evangelical church by using the same sensuous orchestrations with gospel songs that he used when arranging for Nat King Cole, Peggy Lee, Roger Williams, and other pop artists.
How dare he use the rich sensorial harmonies of jazz and pop music to interpret sacred themes? They have changed the way the church sings. Lots of controversy once again. That genie will never go back into the bottle. I have an observation about all this. Christian music today employs all the sounds and rhythms of virtually every cultural expression. No other religion can claim that. How many Grammy categories do you see for Moslem music?
Buddhist music? Hindu music? It is the gospel that has universal appeal. It is the gospel that speaks to young people and old people. Conservative people. Progressive people. Red and yellow, black or white. All are precious in his sight. To those who still hold on to the presupposition that there is a difference in the sound of sacred vs. Are some words holier than others? Words are neither secular or sacred. The New Testament was not written in classical Greek, but street language Greek.
Christians have always seemed to have an uneasy time with percussion and rhythm. But rhythm is nothing more than mathematics. Are some numbers more holy than other numbers? How ridiculous is that? The body was constructed by God to enjoy the feeling of rhythm.
The heart beats in rhythm. The universe pulsates and moves in rhythm. The seven day cycle of activity and rest is all about rhythm. The more rhythm you feel in your body the more alive you are. To not feel rhythm is to be dead. You can also graph and edit virtually any sound or combinations of sounds on a computer.
All the audible colors of musical harmony and expression are nothing more than vibrations. Sound waves. Spiritual Mt. How are you thinking?
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