The Bible teaches that when sin entered the world, all things in the world were corrupted. That would mean that music too was corrupted.

It would be convenient for accommodating man’s tastes and avoiding controversy to say otherwise.

It would be convenient to say music is neutral and only words in music are good or bad. That position places instrumental music in the unique category of a design of God which can not be abused even in the hands of sinful man in a fallen world. It also casts God as having no opinion about instrumental music and thus finding no form pleasing or offensive. If this were the case, then anything goes.

If those positions are rejected, as well they should, what is left? One could propose that God does have standards but it’s OK to abuse them. The other choice would be that God does have standards but we can’t know them.

We hold that God does have a design for music which can be abused and that it is not His will for us to be in the dark about it. This is not a field where we would begin to claim to have all the answers, but at the least we see the need for caution and humble inquiry.

There is not space here to discuss all that is involved, but we can tell you for the sake of clarity that we see the joining of rock music and Christian lyrics to be an unholy union. We do not allow Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) in our worship services.

On the positive side, we see the absolute necessity of having a standard of excellence in music. We want fresh, invigorating, diverse, and doctrinally rich music. As the church grows and matures we are gradually moving toward this goal.