Praise a Fruit of the Redeemed

 

I invite you to read Rigoberto Larraga Lara's book, with the theme of praise a distinctive feature of a redeemed Christian.

In our times there is a diversity and abundance of music in Christian congregations, which has become a phenomenon worth studying, analyzing, evaluating and defining.

In this century, like no other, the movement of Christian music has spread and formed part of the distinction and image of many congregations.

It should be noted that this book does not intend to reject, discriminate, criticize, or judge any person who has been inspired to sing to God.

Nor will we inquire into the commercial and economic intentions and motives of the record industry, and how the product is prostituted to have financial achievements above the Christian principles and values ​​of the singer-songwriters.

We will not enter into the debate of judging the origin of the different music rhythms, if music with rhythms of pagan origin is considered to praise God or not, that debate should take place, but not in this text.

We will not analyze Christian music in general, nor any of its expressions that testify to love and joy towards God, any expression of intimate, individual personal experiences in the Christian walk and we will not do so in this book, why we want to focus on praise that we sing to God within the congregations. Studying Christian music in general will be the reason for other analyses, for the moment I just make it clear that Christian music has its place, its importance, its purpose and is worthy of existence, it will always be better to consume quality Christian music than to consume garbage music of the world

Nor will we talk about “White” music, defined as that music with the purpose of being used in congregations. Music whose main characteristic is to talk about beautiful things; He talks about love, he talks about joy, he talks about freedom, he talks about things and emotions that identify us as God's children. Anyone can sing them without committing to anything or anyone, white music does not speak of Christ, and his attributes, His character, or who we are in it, in a few words it is "white" music that fits anywhere and in any moment.

We will not talk about the ministry of praise, its leadership, its norms, its internal regulations, all this is necessary to review, analyze, define, however, they are a matter of each denomination, organization or local church, the diversity of styles and forms make it difficult to generalize our observations in this regard.

Finally, we will not talk about songs whose lyrics declare heresy, which are loaded with doctrinal errors, music by authors who abandoned the faith to teach doctrines of demons and we will not talk about them, because by definition it is not Praise to God, on the contrary. , are a blasphemy that displeases God.

In this introduction we have already mentioned what we will not talk about, it only remains to define what issues we will address in this book:

What is Praise to God? Who should praise God? Why should you? How should you do it? When should you do it? Where should you do it? What is the purpose of praising God? Biblical principles in the composition of the praise and Indicators to evaluate the quality in the lyrics of the songs.

 

 

 

Psalm 66.8

Bless the Lord and make the voice of his praise heard.

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