I have been thinking quite a bit about how music works at ROC. My sense is that music is deemed good or not so good based on who is holding a microphone or an instrument. Make sense? This is the idea is that music is something a few gifted people can perform for the rest. This is a pretty common idea in our culture.
But I have been thinking that maybe music should be deemed good or not so good based not on what the person with the microphone does but what the rest of the people do. When a community of faith gathers, the purpose is to see God revealed and respond appropriately to him. In light of how music relates to this gathering the Bible says "Speak to each other with songs, hymns and spiritual songs" (Eph 5:19). So, if the purpose of music in community of faith is that we sing to each other about God, maybe we have it wrong when we evaluate based on the microphone. What if we evaluated whether it was good based on whether the whole group of us participated and sang (spoke) to each other in song? Who cares how great the "band" is, the point is actually about the entire group. So, someone who might be not so good behind the microphone might actually be the best leader because the people sing to each other better. Someone who is a really great musician might actually cause others to stop singing and just listen.
That's enough for now. I will try to keep these relatively short, but I would love to hear what you think.
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So I get thinking about Ephesians 5:14 and wonderinf what exactly it means. Then I thought that we do that in our culture by the stage just like you said. But it is true that people who are not that talented infront of a mic or an instrument do not get that chance. This chance should be given. A way music leaders today do that in worship is allow the ongregation to sing without them singing. But this is still the leader's song. We need to bring our own song. How is this done in order and not chaos though?
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