Confused about music.

[BornSinner]

Intrumental music is never mentioned in the New Testament, does that make using instruments in worship wrong?

[cameron222]

Air conditioning isn't mentioned either, but we would be in a jam without it.

Music is to glorify God. If the instruments are used to praise Him, then by all means use them.

[Patty T]

Intrumental music is never mentioned in the New Testament, does that make using instruments in worship wrong?

Oh, but they are mentioned brother :nod

Psalm 150:

Psa 150:1 Praise the LORD! Praise God in His sanctuary; Praise Him in His mighty expanse.

Psa 150:2 Praise Him for His mighty deeds; Praise Him according to His excellent greatness.

Psa 150:3 Praise Him with trumpet sound; Praise Him with harp and lyre.

Psa 150:4 Praise Him with timbrel and dancing; Praise Him with stringed instruments and pipe.

Psa 150:5 Praise Him with loud cymbals; Praise Him with resounding cymbals.

Psa 150:6 Let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Praise the LORD!

[BornSinner]

Air conditioning isn't mentioned either, but we would be in a jam without it.

Music is to glorify God. If the instruments are used to praise Him, then by all means use them.

That's what I think too, but my friend says it's the wrong way to worship
:confused

[antsinmypants]

Sounds like you're mixed up with someone in the "Church of Christ" group. They seem to think because music isn't mentioned (other than singing hymns and psalms) that it didn't occur.

However, if people would bother to study what was done within the Temple and in the Synogogue services before the destruction of the Temple, they will find it was a very musical place, that women danced during the feasts and sabbaths (as did the men), and played tamborines.. that the preists played instruments and sang the psalms and scriptures..

People within the synogogues and home groups (who were run in the homes of people who worked within the synogogue systems, as scriptures couldn't be easily accessed otherwise)-- sang these same hymns and scriptures, and some more than likely played instruments too.

[Harley]

Intrumental music is never mentioned in the New Testament, does that make using instruments in worship wrong?
I've wondered how people decide which things that are not mentioned should be avoided. I mean - geesh - most everything in my church is not mentioned in the Bible.

[OscarTheOnion]

Air conditioning isn't mentioned either, but we would be in a jam without it.

:lol

[kenneth]

I do not see alter calls in the New Testament.

[Elizabeth_S]

I do not see alter calls in the New Testament.
A public confession of giving yourself to Christ is not in the bible? :confused

[Harley]

A public confession of giving yourself to Christ is not in the bible? :confused
Public confession - in there... altar calls as a method - not in there.

[Ladybug]

Oh, but they are mentioned brother :nod

Psalm 150:

Psa 150:1 Praise the LORD! Praise God in His sanctuary; Praise Him in His mighty expanse.

Psa 150:2 Praise Him for His mighty deeds; Praise Him according to His excellent greatness.

Psa 150:3 Praise Him with trumpet sound; Praise Him with harp and lyre.

Psa 150:4 Praise Him with timbrel and dancing; Praise Him with stringed instruments and pipe.

Psa 150:5 Praise Him with loud cymbals; Praise Him with resounding cymbals.

Psa 150:6 Let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Praise the LORD!


That's the Old Testament, not the New Testament. ;):

[nooneuno]

Ephesians 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Rev 5:9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;

Rev 14:3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred [and] forty [and] four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.

Rev 15:3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are] thy ways, thou King of saints.

[nooneuno]

P.S. The voice IS an instrument. :nod

[70thWeek]

Intrumental music is never mentioned in the New Testament, does that make using instruments in worship wrong?

Wearing pants isn't mentioned either... Preaching from a pulpit, pews, get my idea?

[nooneuno]

I Cor. 14:7-8
Yet even lifeless things, either flute or harp, in producing a sound, if they do not produce a distinction in the tones, how will it be known what is played on the flute or on the harp? For if the bugle produces an indistinct sound, who will prepare himself for battle? So also you, unless you utter by the tongue speech that is clear, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air.

[antsinmypants]

Rev 15:3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are] thy ways, thou King of saints.

To sing the song of Moses, they have to have figured out the musical code in the passage to sing it, and play it on instruments as it was done.

There are people right now still trying to work on it.

[70thWeek]

Paul said to sing with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. I don't think that it is too much of a stretch to assume that musical instruments are included in that.

[antsinmypants]

Paul said to sing with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. I don't think that it is too much of a stretch to assume that musical instruments are included in that.

There isn't, because the Psalms verse #s are chords to be played in, and each letter of the word is a key to play them in ;):

[70thWeek]

plus hymns and spiritual songs

[HeIsEnough]

That's what I think too, but my friend says it's the wrong way to worship
:confused

Soooo...what did your friend say the right way to worship is?

[Maria]

Intrumental music is never mentioned in the New Testament, does that make using instruments in worship wrong?

A variety of instruments were used in David's Tabernacle. He instituted a different kind of worship with new instruments, dancing, clapping, joyful noise... Chronicles Chapters 13, 14, 15, and 16...

The Salms are full of David's kind of praise...

Eventhough it is in the Old Testament, the Bible also tell us in Amos 9:11 and Acts 15:16-17 that God will restore this kind of worship because it has fallen....

I think that we are beggining to see this restoration... Worship is different now a days... It is less ritualistic and repetitive and more giving, surrender, postrating one before God in humility... singing and playing our instruments with everything we have, because we owe everything to God... :):

You can study and consider the TAbernacle of Moses and David's to see the difference between the two... There is a lot there to learn form...

[Corey]

Paul said to sing with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. I don't think that it is too much of a stretch to assume that musical instruments are included in that.

What's the Biblical definition of a psalm? How were psalms sung, well, in the book of Psalms?

edited to add: whoops, Ants said it first and much better than I :redface

[Doobie56]

I was taught that if it didn't edify Christ THEN it isn't of God.

Sometimes I feel that until one spends some time in a real Prayer and Worship service in which there is instruments played and people singing and clapping they havn't had a good experience in Worshiping and Praise of Jesus. But that is just my opinion of course. Hey, Praise breaks the Strongholds...I Love Praise and Worship, it makes me feel close to God.