holyfool33
Puritan Board Freshman
Should only believers perform hymns, psalms or spirtual songs? Or is it premisable to use talented non believers if there only performing instrumentl parts of music>
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Should only believers perform hymns, psalms or spirtual songs? Or is it premisable to use talented non believers if there only performing instrumentl parts of music>
Should only believers perform hymns, psalms or spirtual songs? Or is it premisable to use talented non believers if there only performing instrumentl parts of music>
I guess it depends where you are performing the music and in what capacity? Questions like the following need to be answered first:
1. Will this music be performed during the worship service or anywhere in the church?
2. Will it be performed outside of the church?
3. Will it be performed by a group of people who represent a church?
Once these questions are answered then I think it will be much easier to answer your question, or at the very least give you a suggestion.
In my opinion if you are just performing on the street with a couple of buddies or something or singing in somebody's home then why not? Better to sing hymns then some hip hop junk.
even if they sing like strangled frogs, is a beautiful sound to God.
even if they sing like strangled frogs, is a beautiful sound to God.
Ribbit!
Yes, inside church and for service to God the voices of unbelievers, no matter how beautiful to our ears are horrid to God and only believers, even if they sing like strangled frogs, is a beautiful sound to God.
A number of the "big" PCA churches make no distinction of belief/unbelief when seeking to employ those who play music at their worship services. As I told one of those who is on staff at one of those churches, "when did the Israelites ever employ a Philistine to play cymbals for the temple worship?" That conversation went nowhere.
Apart from the question of the propriety of instruments in worship, the fact is that those playing music (even for the purposes of simply accompanying the congregational singing) are taking on a public leadership role (what would happen, e.g. if the organist simply stopped playing mid-hymn? They're LEADING despite what we might like to think). As such, no unbeliever has any place at all (some might argue that no non-elder has any place at all) playing music for accompaniment of congregational praise. Whether "leading" or not, they do have a prominent place in the worship service, and such places should be, must be reserved for those who profess faith in Christ. The practice that goes on with churches paying unbelieving worship bands to accompany the congregation in song (or, worse, to "perform") is a sign of the abysmal depths to which congregational worship has gone.
Should only believers perform hymns, psalms or spirtual songs?
Or is it premisable to use talented non believers if there only performing instrumentl parts of music>