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[Worship] secular music in the bride of Christ (the church)
Hi! :-)
I have difficulty with secular music being don the "church" service. Not
to condemn anyone. It is good to be evangelistic in the service, and it is
good to worship God. But I stand on Matthew 9:14-17.
Particularly verses 16 and 17: "no one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on
an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the
tear worse. Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do,
the skins will burst, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be
ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are
preserved".
Now, I understand about reclaiming stolen property (music, dance, drama
taken out of the church and Satan using it in the world in a manner that
was never intended by God). But I think that it is better to bring fresh,
new wine into God's presence -- out of a pure heart and to claim sevenfold
on that rather than to put new words on secular music, or claim what the
world would recognize as a worldly song into the body of Christ.
Most of all we need to see more of Jesus and less of us. We need to keep
"the body of Christ" holy, pure, and free from sin as much as is possible
within us. We need to come apart and BE separate. God will provide the
anointing for the music after all he created it.
In His Service,
Stina Rhoades
e-mail: rrhoades@customcpu.com
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