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\"\"Dominique DuBois Gilliard serves as an adjunct professor at North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago where he is also working towards his Master\u2019s of Divinity.\u00a0 Dominique is an itinerant minister that facilitates discipleship sessions on community development, multiculturalism, reconciliation, and justice.\u00a0 In this guest post, Dominique explores the power of music in the life of the Christian.<\/em><\/p>\n

Have you ever contemplated the significance of the songs you sing? I don\u2019t mean simply recalling the lyrics or how the rhythm connects them. I mean seriously considering the implications of the verbiage within songs. What the lyrics attest to, say about you, your values and beliefs? Are they an accurate reflection of who you are? Most of us probably haven\u2019t ever given this serious consideration, and even now that the question has been raised we\u2019ll brush it off as something not needed, because after all it\u2019s just music right?<\/p>\n

Most people will argue that what you listen to daily for inspiration to get out of bed and onto work, off the couch and into the gym, or as encouragement before job interviews or nerve-racking dates, are things that don\u2019t need to be examined for meaning, because they\u2019re just space fillers. These songs\u2019 lyrics don\u2019t actually say anything about who you are, what you represent, or believe in. Again, it\u2019s just music right?<\/p>\n

Then inadvertently what you listens to in isolation becomes public knowledge when these same songs that inspire you privately are played while you\u2019re out interacting with the world, at parties, sporting events, or shopping malls and your caught subconsciously bobbing your heads, singing along, and jamming to the beat. Yet still you refuse to acknowledge the possible communal implications of the sentiments you\u2019ve now publically espoused through your regurgitation of these lyrics in the midst of community. Again claiming that no reflection is needed because these song lyrics don\u2019t connote anything about you, what or better yet who<\/em> you represent, or believe in. Nobody\u2019s thinking that deeply into it, because it\u2019s just music, right?<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, I\u2019d like to challenge everyone to reflect on the possible communal repercussions of publicly articulating the sentiments which undergird mainstream music today.\u00a0 What could this mean for your testimony to those around you? Do the lyrics of these songs align with the values of scripture? As youth leaders are these songs that you would proudly sing in front of your youth, and via versa? I\u2019ve found it a great personal, as well as youth ministry practice, to provoke critical thought around normative activity. What are the implications of these activities for you, your reputation, and Christianity? How do your actions reflect God and the Church? Why aren\u2019t these things into consideration more often? Not legalistically but for the sake of evangelistic credence.<\/p>\n

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