{"id":38570,"date":"2013-06-06T02:04:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T02:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ed_stetzer-7_biblical_tests_for_christians_and_music\/"},"modified":"2013-06-06T02:04:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T02:04:35","slug":"ed_stetzer-7_biblical_tests_for_christians_and_music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38570","title":{"rendered":"Ed Stetzer&#8211;7 Biblical Tests for Christians and Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christians disagree about music style as much as any other issue in the body of Christ. More than likely, you&#8217;ve experienced this firsthand. As I&#8217;ve already written, conflicts over music have been common through out church history. Christians have listened to and enjoyed all of kinds of music. But should they?.<\/p>\n<p>In seeking to determine what is the right music for a church, it&#8217;s important that we use biblical principles in our evaluation. That&#8217;s not always easy\u201d\u201dthe Bible doesn&#8217;t contain music notes. God never gives us His musical preferences.<\/p>\n<p>While it may be difficult, I do believe it&#8217;s possible to evaluate musical preferences using God&#8217;s word. The following seven tests each relate to biblical principles that we can apply to our music to determine its suitability&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/edstetzer\/2013\/june\/7-biblical-tests-for-christians-and-music.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christians disagree about music style as much as any other issue in the body of Christ. More than likely, you&#8217;ve experienced this firsthand. As I&#8217;ve already written, conflicts over music have been common through out church history. Christians have listened<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38570\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,183,132,184,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-music","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}