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“ Needed Instruction ” Thank you, Pastor Dowling, for your very applicable sermon. Pastor Dowling said that the young people wanted to bring musical instruments into the service. The young people that are growing up now will want to go farther and bring other forms of music into the church service. Rock, Rap, and classical music may start to have a place in the church, if the people are listening to it at home. Thank you again, Pastor Dowling.
Karen Biser (3/27/2011)
from Maryland
“ Far reaching implications... ” Thank you, Pastor Dowling, for showing how the declension from acappella singing occurred mostly through catering to the tastes of the young people over the last three hundred years. It seems that the music they were engaging in out of church just had to be brought into the church. We see the same thing in our own time with popular music styles being utilized in the worship of God. Given these facts, and the fact that the context of Ephesians 5:19 and Colossians 3:16 is that of every day family life, or household rules, what music should believers be engaging in in their personal lives? If we are to preserve the pure worship of God in our churches, ought we not to bring our children up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord by disallowing all music in our daily lives except the exclusive, acappella singing of the Psalter? Is it wise to pay for music lessons that may only lead our children to a desire to display their musical skills in the church? This may seem radical, but then Christianity is a radical faith that turns the world upside down. "...That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God." Luke 16:15
I was born is Lisburn Northern Ireland 8th July 1969, am married to Rebekah my great wife and helper and we have 4 children 1 boy and 3 girls. I have been minister in this church (my 1st) since 25th Oct 2003. We have had 8 years of reformation an ongoing process to come into...
