RUSSELL SANDERS
1-24-2025
OUR WORSHIP IN MUSIC

There is a church denomination that sings only in a cappella [with no musical accompaniment]. They do not allow any form of musical instruments in their church. They believe it is unscriptural since they do not see instruments of worship used in the church [building] in the New Testament. However, the lack of mention of musical instruments does not mean they were not used. Such thinking is an unfounded human assumption.

It is clear from the Old Testament that God loves the sound of musical instruments along with the sound of our voices in praise. Psalm 150 makes that very clear. It says that we are to praise him [vocally] along with the trumpets, the psaltery, harps, timbrels, cymbals, organs, and stringed instruments.

To say that what God loved in the Old Testament is now disallowed in the New Testament church is an absurd assertion. He will love and accept our praises any way that we give it.

Psalm 150:6 says, “Let everything that has breath praise the LORD.” [Read Psalm 150] That applies not only to we, the people, but also to the herbs, plants, and trees of the field, and the animal kingdom.

God does not limit the ways we can praise him, so why does that denomination limit their people’s privilege of praising and singing with instruments. Their human reasoning is not based upon scripture.

Singing with musical accompaniment is one of the most precious means of worship. I will choose to sing a cappella and I will sing with musical instruments. I will sing in whatever manner the Spirit moves me to worship God.