Holy WarsHollywood or Holiness?Who Gets the Glory?Tags: Church Growth, Church Growth Movement, Church growth consultants, worship leader, Apostle Paul, Nebuchadnezzar, Bob Larson, The Day Music Died, Brahms, Debussy, Monet, Picasso, DahliT In the end the real question becomes,
“Who gets the glory?” Let us join in with Paul who proclaimed, “For from
Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be glory forever! Amen.” (Rom Praise to God and glorification of His
Name is a responsibility that each of us has. No one can do it for us. Therefore, whether
Christian or non-Christian, each musician has been gifted by God and is responsible for
himself and to God regarding what he does with his music. If he plays for himself while
worshipping and exalting himself to worship the creation rather than the Creator, then he
is corrupt. If he chooses to give God the glory then he is blessed. Though each musician will be held
accountable for what he does with his gift and how the results of his musical efforts have
affected others, the listeners of music are responsible for themselves and to God as well.
They can choose to listen or not to listen. They can choose to worship the creation or the
Creator who has given all artists their musical talent and thus has created music to be
enjoyed. It is just as easy to worship wrongly while listening to Christian music as it is
with secular. Likewise the Christian is welcome to receive and worship God for that which
has been created regardless of whether the origin is Christian or non-Christian. “’All the earth shall worship
You and sing praises to You; they shall sing praises to Your name.’ Selah.” (Ps
66:4 MKJV) Stop and think about that. All the earth worships God. All creation comes from
God with the specific purpose of leading people to worship Him. What does that say with
regard to how Christians should view the things God has given us in the world He created
and affirmed “was good?” (Gen 1) God has given us good gifts and we are to
praise Him for it with an attitude of gratitude. “That I may proclaim with the voice
of thanksgiving, and tell of all Your wondrous works.” (Ps 26:7 MKJV) Those who do
otherwise are just plain ungrateful.
In his book Rock, while pretty much
banning any form of popular rock from the Christian home because of one objectionable
theme or another, Larson wrote that “it might be wise to check your child’s
record library now”’ in order to still fear in parents. Then there was the whole
back-masking hysteria where Christians thought for sure that they heard calls to worship
the Devil when records were played backwards. Many actually came to the conclusion that
these hidden messages would defile their kids. The results of this hysteria resulted in
some amazing behavior in the church. For example, one pastor made it a regular
habit to gather his congregation together for the purpose of burning recordings produced
by contemporary non-Christian and some “objectionable” Christian musicians. His
contention was that anything except for worship and praise music is of the Devil and
should immediately be discarded. The question becomes at that point, "What can you
listen to? Do you need to discard all of the symphonies of the Romantics such as Brahms
simply because they used their music to worship nature? Do you throw out the music of
Debussy because his music was based upon the philosophies of the French humanists? Do you
discard the entire litany of 20th century music because it emanates from non-absolutism?
And what do you do with the art of Monet, Picasso or Dahli in that case? And to make it
closer to home, what do you do with the entirety of rock music whose base is in the
heathen cultures of Now there is a bunch of stuff out there
that is outright violent, hateful, blasphemous, arrogant, rebellious, profane and directed
specifically towards Satan worship. I don’t see how God can be worshipped by those
who listen to that crud. However, that aside, those who choose to worship God as they are
enveloped in music because they recognize the giver of musical talent and Creator of
everything are worshippers indeed. Music is a wonderful gift to those who give glory to
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he proclamation of the ancient
pantheist, Nebuchadnezzar, after God rescued the three Jewish resisters from the furnace
clearly demonstrates that God can inspire the unbeliever as well as the believer.
Especially in our society that was founded upon and therefore is so inundated with the
Christian worldview, we see a lot in the arts that reflect the Christian worldview
regardless of the source. If God can speak through a pagan king He can speak through
anyone. And a Christian musician can be as self-motivated and can bow before the music
itself just as capably as the unbeliever. Christian songwriters can and have written music
that carries in it the worldview of the pantheistic world as well.
Check out this powerful Southern Cross song! 
