You know as well as I do that in today's churches you can create a veritable civil war simply by putting a drum set on the stage of a church. Very few things in Christianity are as controversial and divisive as music... especially in the realm of rhythm.

It's kind of funny when you think about it, most of us are not nearly so critical of the theological implications of the text of the song as we are of how fast or slow it is and how predominant the beat is.

But, this was not an issue in Bible times. We know that the music of Israel was filled with percussion style instruments. The Bible speaks of bells, cymbals, sistrums, tabrets, gongs, timbrels... all forms of percussion instruments!

Oh, I don't want to get into the middle of what's appropriate in your church today. I just know that it appears that this isn't something that David had to fight with the priests over or Paul stood up and preached about.

You can be stretched in this type of thinking in our series:

#903 Sacred Objects #922 Making Sacred Events #956 Bible Music

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I'm Don Pate and we'll look to see you here again soon!