Good Music!

I am sitting in my office listening to the praise band warm up and practice before the morning worship.  It is the calm before the storm.  They are so good and having such a good time practicing.  There is laughter and jokes and playfulness.  They are communicating with the sound booth to get the sound levels correct and adjust the monitors so that they can hear how they are playing.  The bass guy just shocked everyone when he kicked into a blues vocal riff that had everyone surprised because he rarely sings as the lead.  It is truly a joy to listen to them!

There is something special about good music.  It leads you to another place.  The music connects with your heart and your feelings pour out.  Sometimes we restrain our feelings but often times we are just moved and can only marvel at what is created.  I can't explain it any better than that.  Everyone is different when it comes to the music that connects with their heart: metal or emo or classical or even country. (I gasped when I typed that last catagory!)

Good music moves you and takes you somewhere else.  But I believe that music is just music.  It isn't necessarily Christian or secular.  It is just music.  I am in favor of music played well that connects with my heart and moves my emotions.  How much better when the music leads you into worship of our God!  Our great God loves great music like that.  Saying God or Jesus in the lyrics doesn't necessarily make it Christian.  God loves music that leads people into worship of him!  The band will be leading Christmas carols today in a style that they are rarely played.  They are going to lead us with high quality music with the goal of directing us to focus on our great God.  It is that focus that makes it great music!