Trashy Music (was WELCOME)

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{Douglas Wrote}:

IMHO, whether I worship Jesus in 3/4 time to a Hammond organ or worship
him with a distorted electric guitar doesn't matter - as long as I am
worshiping him. The same is true for singing the Gospel message.
The devil has used a lot of tools to deceive people, but it's not the
tools that are the problem, but the devil's use of them. The devil uses
churches to deceive people - should we not have churches? The devil uses
t-shirts to deceive people - should we not have t-shirts. The devil uses
mailing lists to deceive people - should we not have mailing lists?
Respectfully...
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Douglas W. Ingalls...dwi@borg.com

{I write}:

I have just joined this thread and will, I am afraid, risk being redundant
as someone may have already put forth the following points.  Music is cer-
tainly a gift of God that we are to use for edification and evangelism.  I
would agree that music must change with times to reflect more contemporary
and appealing styles (else we would all be singing some sort of chants).
However, the music that we produce with the motive of glorifying Christ or
ministering to saints or the lost must be reflective of our walk with God.
I do not think it can be productive to re-write or re-vamp worldly songs
created by godless (and often antichrist (in the most generally applicable
sense of the word)).  We are to 'shun the very appearance of evil.'  We
must keep our conduct and actions above reproach.

Of course, I agree that we could not call any sort of music inherently and
expressly Christian, but there are more traditional forms (ie. Gospel (southern
or black) that are basically identified explicitly as Christian forms.

Just an opinion.



Matthew Shaw
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