Is the Christian Artist Free?
Posted on August 1, 2012
By Dr. Barry Liesch
I believe that a Christian composer has the freedom to use any style, any materials. No style should be considered off limits in expressing the Gospel.
I contend along with Harold Best, author of Music Through the Eyes of Faith, that music without words is morally neutral. By that I mean that sound by itself cannot express truth—communicate belief, or propositional truth. Music style is neutral, ethically and morally.