Repose Posted August 16, 2019 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 9 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 205 Content Per Day: 0.12 Reputation: 231 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/06/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted August 16, 2019 What is your opinion? Should one avoid music altogether? Only listen to Christian music? Listen to whatever kind of music, so long as there's no swearing or anything inappropriate? Or just listen to whatever? It's something I wonder about often. I'm curious as to how others feel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debp Posted August 17, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 52 Topic Count: 1,010 Topics Per Day: 0.15 Content Count: 12,205 Content Per Day: 1.79 Reputation: 16,281 Days Won: 92 Joined: 07/19/2005 Status: Offline Share Posted August 17, 2019 I think music is good as long as it doesn't have alot of verbal garbage in it....be careful of what you listen to. Some secular music is ok. Also, I hate music that is so loud that you might become deaf listening to it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted August 17, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 940 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,412 Content Per Day: 5.02 Reputation: 8,957 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted August 17, 2019 (edited) 17 hours ago, Repose said: What is your opinion? Should one avoid music altogether? Only listen to Christian music? Listen to whatever kind of music, so long as there's no swearing or anything inappropriate? Or just listen to whatever? It's something I wonder about often. I'm curious as to how others feel. Well I tell ya, it is like this -it don't matter what one listens to or plays someone is going to have a wild hair objection to it. So if it lifts your spirit makes you happy gives you a good countenance toward our Lord and savior enjoy. Hum, sing, play, make a joyful noise. and let the grump go grump grump grump grump. Tell them there is a musical rhythm to their grumping, it will drive them into silence for at least a bit. Martin Luther had objection to the church organ, called it the devil's instrment, Church of Christ has various rules against instruments because they say the New Testament is silent on the subject of instruments and they only speak of what the Bible speaks of- go figure that one out humming abit as you do. Seems there is both a direct assault upon our enjoyment of worship nd an indirect one by way of music that is not praising of our creator and instead often a direct denial of Him. I never enjoyed "church" music until recently when i changed churches to a really livelu group that praises God in song - worship- so intense it makes me very aware of the Holy Spirit moving among us. now i sing perhaps just joyful noise, but I love it for my God seems to be showing us that He loves it too. BTW- as a personal preference I love to listen to George's wife's music ( Bath Rika Whitten) as I am driving along the highway, keeps me calm and in praise mode, and yes I am a Fernando Ortega groupie also. Music is good in fact excellent for the mind body and spirit and soul. Bring on the drums, bring on the bass, Get Rhythm in your shoes dance to the Lord sing and praise. Hey even bring on the shofar listen for the trump. Edited August 19, 2019 by Neighbor Unable to edit to correct spelling errors. ??? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnthebaptist Posted August 17, 2019 Group: Non-Conformist Theology Followers: 6 Topic Count: 118 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4,361 Content Per Day: 2.35 Reputation: 2,109 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/25/2019 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/03/1953 Share Posted August 17, 2019 18 hours ago, Repose said: What is your opinion? Should one avoid music altogether? Only listen to Christian music? Listen to whatever kind of music, so long as there's no swearing or anything inappropriate? Or just listen to whatever? It's something I wonder about often. I'm curious as to how others feel. I am a musician, so maybe I am prejudice. Start out with hymns. Can it be wrong to listen to hymns? Move onto contemporary Christian music. Is it wrong to listen to that? What about music that carries harmless messages? Certainly, music that carries sinful messages shouldn't be listened to. I have no problem with other music. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTCarroll Posted August 17, 2019 Group: Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 56 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 40 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/24/2019 Status: Offline Share Posted August 17, 2019 18 hours ago, Repose said: What is your opinion? Should one avoid music altogether? Only listen to Christian music? Listen to whatever kind of music, so long as there's no swearing or anything inappropriate? Or just listen to whatever? It's something I wonder about often. I'm curious as to how others feel. I am an old headbanger from the 70s when I started listening to KISS, Meatloaf, Black Sabbath and a dozen other heavy metal bands. I then found Rush and Pink Floyd and Yes and a more mellow version of rock. I still listen to them today. But also like some mellow music like Chicago, ELO and the like. All good music that I listen to depending upon my mood or my activity. I used to listen to the Christian music station, but there is just no variety, it all sounds the same after a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saved34 Posted August 18, 2019 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 1 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 1,185 Content Per Day: 0.27 Reputation: 667 Days Won: 3 Joined: 03/28/2012 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/19/1971 Share Posted August 18, 2019 Music is so subjective. I think we all know we should avoid songs with raunchy themes, and full of cursing. I like old Gospel hymns and I do listen to some secular music that has truthful messages. I listened to “Family Reunion” by the Ojays the other day. Such an amazing song and then his dialogue about the family structure at the end was great. I don’t like Christian hip hop but I know many Christians do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeauJangles Posted August 18, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 44 Topic Count: 229 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 10,900 Content Per Day: 2.95 Reputation: 12,145 Days Won: 68 Joined: 02/13/2014 Status: Offline Birthday: 08/14/1954 Share Posted August 18, 2019 I've got a pretty extensive library of music in several listenable formats. And it covers a wide range of styles, going far back into the classics of the baroque era to fairly recent. Variety is most appealing, and it's easy to get involved with a particular category for a while, and stray into another. If there's lyrics, and the message goes against my faith however, the line gets drawn then and there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmuffet Posted August 18, 2019 Group: Royal Member Followers: 34 Topic Count: 1,989 Topics Per Day: 0.49 Content Count: 48,687 Content Per Day: 11.89 Reputation: 30,342 Days Won: 226 Joined: 01/11/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted August 18, 2019 On 8/16/2019 at 11:28 AM, Repose said: What is your opinion? Should one avoid music altogether? Only listen to Christian music? Listen to whatever kind of music, so long as there's no swearing or anything inappropriate? Or just listen to whatever? It's something I wonder about often. I'm curious as to how others feel. As a born again Christian a person should be careful of the lyrics of the music they are listening to. Some of the secular music can be very worldly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustPassingThru Posted August 18, 2019 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 14 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1,979 Content Per Day: 1.00 Reputation: 2,112 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/23/2018 Status: Offline Share Posted August 18, 2019 I enjoy certain hymns and I enjoy the Praise Music, which I listen to when I'm not listening to Bible Study, ...but, I also enjoy BB, Clapton, Albert Collins, Albert King, ...the blues, I tune out the words and just let the music move my body, ...like BB said, "You can't be blue while listening to the blues!" I've heard some same secular music is of the devil, or the tool of the devil, probably is, ...he can use it however he wants, ...but the devil didn't create music, my Father did, ...and He can use it however He wants to, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willa Posted August 19, 2019 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 68 Topic Count: 185 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 14,204 Content Per Day: 3.35 Reputation: 16,629 Days Won: 30 Joined: 08/14/2012 Status: Offline Share Posted August 19, 2019 I enjoy the classics from the first half of the 20th century. The romantics, Spanish rhythms, like Lecuona, Russian composers: Smetana, Rimsky-Korsekov, Rachmaninoff, and Tchaikovsky, and some of the weirder stuff like Peter and the Wolf or Lt.Kiev. by Prokofiev. Also like Gershwin's jazz symphonies and Puccini's operas. Do love hymns and many contemporary worship song. Also like Christian hard rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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