Aaron,
That is I guess where we will have to agree to disagree. If a person who sang a song, or recorded a song, causes damage to the morality of the song, or the ability of someone else to use it, than our hymnal has been seriously marred by Elvis Presley, as well as a very large contingent of Country & Western Music!
I believe music should be evaluated solely on its merits, Now we agree more than you might think, since I do believe that there is a different set of guidelines that should be imposed on music to be used in Worship services. They are guidelines of appropriateness, however, not moral statements about the music.
I believe that issues of who sang it, who recorded it, etc, are more applicable to the appropriateness of a piece of music rather than its moral value. In that you may be correct as to some music being innappropriate for a Worship service. We would probably disagree however, when it came to picking out the music for this year's Christmas program
Mr Curtis,
You wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>just because the Bible doesn't tell us to sing to the unsaved, doesn't mean we shouldn't...."
This is the thought process that has brought us such things as confession, sacraments, purgatory, faith plus works, prayers to Mary, & other such unscriptual blasphemy. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Actually what brought us that blasphemy is the same thing that brought the Jews laws about not walking more than X number of steps on the sabbath, and when the lame man Jesus healed at the pool carried his bed, they were more concerned about his violation of the sabbath, than the fact that he had been healed. People who are more concerned with follwing a system of works, than with their relationship with Christ, that is what brought us all of these things.
Its called adding stuff to the Bible, it happens all the time. Especially when it comes to dealing with music.
