Sermon Tone Analysis

Introduction

The Word is not open to private interpretation

North Richland Hills

What if they had 30 elders and 25 of them said let’s do it!

“The Bible does not say we cannot have instruments in worship.”

5 of them say instruments are not mentioned in the New Testament in worship.

Instruments were implemented by David.

Furthermore we have scripture that talks about the way to worship.

Old Testament

Instruments were David’s Doing

Look at how this scripture is worded

God Winked or let some things go

What the historian Josephus and other said about the early Christians and Music in Worship

McClintock & Strong

It is a matter of historical record that musical instruments were not used in worship associated with Christianity for at least several centuries after the church began.

“The general introduction of instrumental music [in the church] can certainly not be assigned to a date earlier than the 5th or 6th centuries” (McClintock & Strong, p. 759).

The renowned Bingham wrote:

“Music in churches is as ancient as the apostles, but instrumental music not so: for it is now generally agreed by learned men, that the use of organs came into the church since the time of Thomas Aquinas, anno 1250” (p.

315).

Even the supreme authority in popular Catholic literature notes:

“Although Josephus tells of the wonderful effects produced in the Temple by the use of instruments of music, the first Christians were of too spiritual a fiber to substitute lifeless instruments for or to use them to accompany the human voice” (The Catholic Encyclopedia, p. 651).

New Testament

Elder’s Personal Care

Elder’s Praying

Elder’s Restrictions

Elder’s Qualifications

Titus qualifications and what to do