Contemporary debates weather listening to secular songs is baffling believers. It started of with a gospel singer published a "secular-sounding"video, much worse she performed with non Christian artists. I hear people arguing which was worse, singing the song or working with non Christian artists. 

Ethiopian protestant church has been known to be so conservative when it comes to matters of secular songs. Be it a love song or a song about washing hands or getting up so early to go to work it has all been condemned sin. People who do so are outcasts and the wrath is more terrifying if you are by any means a performer of this sort. 

Let me put my firm stand on this matter that I think secular songs are of zero benefits for a believer. I do not think they are necessarily a gateway to hell fire as they say so [whereby Gelatians 5 is overstated by many] I just think a believer is so busy training to be more Christ like and shouldn't be dealing with matters as silly. 

When God made Adam and Eve he made them in his like and gave them his own life standard in heaven. Then they sinned and have fallen out of his glory, more from his life standard. Through out the old testament God tries to restore his life standards by giving them the law, but as Paul says on Roman's 7, the law being holy it didn't benefit us much rather than being a register of our sins. As Paul said, if it didn't say thou shall not steel I might have not known to steel. 

The law is not God's life standard. It's a mere representation of how high it is we can't reach it. When Jesus came down he fulfilled all the laws and thus we are introduced to the higher life standards once again, through his body being a sacrifice and an offering. 

This is why I prefer not to sing nor listen to anything which won't keep me going in this higher life standard. Paul even said I will leave anything that may even benefit me for this higher calling. I don't sing or argue because I chose not to live on the edge. It's not the good purpose in the secular song or the amount of alcohol in one sip of wine it's because I live higher, I don't live on the edge.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

 Like many raised in Christian family,I was thought to pray in the morning, before meals and be thankful. But it took some growing up to really understand the true significance of giving God credit to everything, including those you think you achieved on your own. At times we get used to God's gifts and think it's just there for us to enjoy or we worked for it.  On Luke 12, Jesus spoke about a man who stored products that may keep him "happy and satisfied "for long. There is no question about the decipline or the hard work from this man. It doesn't say this guy stole or cheated or by any means acquired his wealth inappropriately. It's all the products he achieved fair and square. He worked so hard, he stored and he can live long happy, after all that how it has always been!All the men before him, all who worked hard to store they have all enjoyed thier wealth for long. So how can he be different? You work, you collect your enjoy!  Little did he know it's n...
Read more

The way I felt about the issue

Image
In medicine, we have a thing called referred pain. If you haven’t grasp is already, it’s when one part of your body gets sick and the pain gets diverted to another organ. The reason behind is the nerve supplying the affected part also supplies the other “un-involved” part; in simple words, one feels pain essentially on the “wrong spot!” Externally speaking, these organs seem healthy without the original pain being on site, but they feel the excruciating effects of the injury, even worse at times! I have taken the freedom to extend this concept to a greater scale. In a way, assuming what would have happened if the original insult happened on the referred site, whether the secondary part is protected from an injury of that scale? What if the acid burning the gastric mucosa was poured on the back; what if the effects of tuberculosis causing heart damage were applied to the shoulder? The truth, I think, is some of the secondary sites are less protected; the only thing keeping them from...
Read more