Live Blog: Harold Best Lecture “Text and Music: Content and Context For Music Ministry” from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

by Bobby Gilles on October 13, 2008

Join me Tuesday at noon, EST for full, live-streaming coverage of Dr. Best’s lecture.  You will not have to continuously refresh your browser or download/register for anything.  Click the link below now to see details — and if you’d like you can schedule an email reminder to be sent to yourself at a pre-selected time, before the start of the event.  Then click the link below at noon tomorrow when the event goes live — it’s as easy as that:

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Bobby Gilles October 14, 2008 at 10:38 am

Thanks for joining in. If you missed it, it’s now archived. Just click the link above.

Sorry for all the misspellings … that’s what happens when I type on the fly. :-)

So to sum up quickly, Best warns that contextualization and the quest for relevance must go beyond simply copying whatever is popular right now, and furthermore, that church music must not be just about, or even primarily about, the sound. It’s not about the beat or the style. Music needs words to carry truth. It’s important to have good music, but if we have good music with bad words, we’re moving in a very dangerous direction.

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