InSlaveryToChrist
Puritan Board Junior
Music has become so common in people's everyday lives today that one could almost say it is an essential component of their reality. Not only do we hear background music in movies and television shows, our modern society is more and more transforming into a music box, where music is nearly inescapable.
As I see the situation, people dislike the true, considerably quiet reality of God's universe, where there is no constant background music around them. To an average unbeliever, music is almost as essential a motivation to keep him living as the Word of God is to a believer. Neither can breathe without their life-giving water. That's basically how serious music has become for many today.
Now my question is:
Is adding background music to a real event (speech, sermon, exercise, etc.), as a means of emphasis, appropriate?
(Take for example any sermon from YouTube that has an additional background music in it. Another example: listening pure music while jogging.)
As I see the situation, people dislike the true, considerably quiet reality of God's universe, where there is no constant background music around them. To an average unbeliever, music is almost as essential a motivation to keep him living as the Word of God is to a believer. Neither can breathe without their life-giving water. That's basically how serious music has become for many today.
Now my question is:
Is adding background music to a real event (speech, sermon, exercise, etc.), as a means of emphasis, appropriate?
(Take for example any sermon from YouTube that has an additional background music in it. Another example: listening pure music while jogging.)