The Gospel Music

There are so many Christians that have experienced a great adventure of their Christian life, and they can be able to say that these are the most prolific years of their being a Christian. The ardor for evangelism, the keenness with which, when opening the Bible, the joy when saying the prayers and the expectancy with coming to church.

The initial year for Christian discipleship to someone new and Jesus Christ was fresh to them, was just like that first moment when they heard their all-time favorite music. Perhaps you will remember the first instance that you have heard of yours — how besotted you had been by it, how you’re putting it on, repeatedly then listened to it continuously. You told your acquaintances, “You need to hear this — honestly, it is amazing.” That was a Christian life during the first year of many new Christians, overflowing and effervescent.

And to be honest, it is probably quite alike since then. It is assumed that was partly because, as everyone is busy with their Christian life, some normally stops attending to music which initially moved them and started attempting to dance in peace.

We begin to focus on the moves we are supposed to be executed as disciples. The “silent times,” the prayer meeting, the evangelism, the Bible study, and so forth. Again, this is to emphasize that these are the appropriate and the wonderful things for the follower of Jesus Christ to be doing and for growing deeper in Jesus Christ. However, without the sound of music of a gospel that will drive them, they can be hollow — mere techniques and artifice, the motion like that of a dancer, but with nothing of joy, nothing of energy, and nothing of the grace.

The Greater Challenge

Much had been written regarding the threat about the Christian disciples from the progressive secular society. That is true, no doubt. However, is it likely that there’s also due to the manner we disciple other people and ourselves — a very significant threat in the church too?

“When you make disciples, turn up the tune of the gospel. Recall your first love, then keeps on learning how you will dance.”

When Paul writes down to the younger disciples in Philippi, looking to put them together up in a context of the culture that actively opposed to them, he did not present them with the lists of discipleship to-dos. As an alternative, he filed a letter with a statement and restatement of a glorious truth: the supreme value of Jesus Christ. He is full well aware that all the real Christian “doing” flow coming from that music. He told them to “drill-out your personal salvation” in Philippians 2:12, however, in the next verses, he immediately reminded them that the control in doing so will come not from them, however, it is from God who worked in them “mutually to will and also to work for the good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13).

Remember that when we are making disciples of Jesus Christ, let us do all things that we can in turning up to the gospel music and let us recapture our first ever love, and then remember how we dance.