Instrumental Music Is It Biblical?

Introduction:

1. Charles Spurgeon’s the famous Baptist thoughts on instrumental music are a good way to start this sermon.

A. What a degradation to supplant the intelligent song of the whole congregation by the theatrical prettinesses of a quartette, the refined niceties of a choir, or the blowing off of wind from inanimate bellows and pipes! We might as well pray by machinery as praise by it.

1. This is the primary thought of most of the so called church fathers.

2. The sinfulness of instrumental music in worship is not determined by whether or not the church fathers believed in it or not but it does demonstrate that the use of them in worship is a fairly new concept in its widespread acceptance.