The Bible and Music

Towards the beginning of today’s class, it was asked what are we actually getting out of this class. One of the responses to this question was that it is teaching us to appreciate other styles of music that intersect with the Bible. I thought the activity we did in which we listened to different music styles without knowing the origin helped to showcase this because at the end of class we were asked what Christian music sounds like, but through the listening activity, we were able to recognize that there is no set “sound” of Christian music. The songs that were played for us today were all very different from each other and from contemporary Christian music that is played on the radio, but that does not mean that they do not share the same level of importance to their listening demographics. Overall, I enjoyed today’s class because I think many of us had the opportunity to come to some realizations about the intersection of the Bible and music.

~Alyssa