Instrumental music in worship

 

1.       What are we told in Eph. 5:18?  _____________________________________________

2.       How can we show this (verse 19)?  __________________________________________

3.       “THIS” is a reciprocal pronoun (there must be an interchange between those assembled).

4.       Think of a circle.  Some wonder if this passage describes an assembly.

5.       “One to another” (an assembled group).

6.       What other activities do we find in the context (verses 20-21)?  _________________________.

7.       Where would these activities occur?

8.       What is special about singing instead of “playing?”

9.       Some information about the words Paul used.

10.   “Psalm” (psalmois) is found about 70 times in the LXX.  One place is 1 Sam. 16:18.

11.   This word WAS associated with instrumental music before the New Testament era.

12.   In New Testament times it meant, “a sacred song” or a “psalm” (Brown, 3:670) and only a song of praise (Gingrich and Danker, p. 891). 

13.   See how this word is used in Lk. 20:42 and Acts 1:20. 

14.   “Hymns” (humnois) is found only here and Col. 3:16.

15.   Distinguishing between these words is difficult; this one may be songs always addressed to God.

16.   Examples of this?  ______________________________________________________________

17.   “Songs” (adais) is found only here and Rev. 5:9; 14:3; 15:3.

18.   Another key word is “making melody” (psall9).

19.   In Classical Greek the word meant “to strike” and included striking musical instruments.

20.   If this is the meaning here, who would obligated to “strike”? 

21.   In the New Testament era the word had a different meaning”  to sing a hymn of praise.

22.   What the basic types of music?  What do we find here?

23.   What is the principle from Rev. 22:18-19?

24.   Does God really mean this – Lev. 10:1-2?

25.   If God says “sing,” and we “sing AND play,” what have we done?

26.   If God had simply said “make music,” what could we do?

27.   One of God’s first controversies about man involved __________________ Gen. 4:4-7.

28.   Reasons given for the instruments:

29.   “We like it.”  “This is what our talent is.”  “If it is used at home, it can be used at worship.”

30.   “It will be used in heaven.”  Compare Rev. 5:8.

31.   “It is only an aid.”  An aid is not a command.  It is a means to carrying out a command.

32.   What is “will worship” (Col. 2:22-23)?  ________________________________________.

33.   Has instrumental music been “removed” by us, or added by others?