usic is truly a universal experience. There probably are few people on the planet who don’t have a favorite style of music or opinions on the part that music plays in society. But there are those who go farther. There are those who are heavily influenced by the tones, the rhythm and the movement of good, quality music. There are some for whom music represents more than just pleasing noise, but a sail on which their soul takes flight, an anchor onto which their emotions hold firm, a rudder that navigates their spirit through tempestuous seas. For such people, music isn’t just a part of their life – it is their life.

It should be noted that music is an extremely important and favored component of Christian worship. We can reach such an uplifting experience through worshiping God with music that it cannot and should not be traded for any other form of worship. But without Christ in one’s life, a music lover can easily become a music worshiper. For this person, when the music fades, there is no direction. This person is lost without the beat of the drums, wandering without the direction of a tune.

In a sense, music worshipers are already a spiritual people. The qualities that attract them to music are the effects that music has on their soul. Music is an intangible reality, an invisible force that affects the very nature of a person’s being. In this sense, music worshipers are more in touch with their intangible spirit than most anyone else. This does not, however, preclude them from being absolutely wrong in their worldview.

Music worshipers get an enhanced experience with aural stimuli, but this experience is only part of a universal reality. Latching on to music, they attempt to find the rest of this wonderful world of the intangible only to find false ideals and moral systems that shift along the tides of public opinion like the movements in their favorite pieces. Music is their anchor, but it is an anchor with an ever-changing length of chain. The righteousness of music can never be actualized without the firm foundation of God beneath their musical understanding.

To reach music worshipers with the Gospel, one must appeal to their heart. They tend to be guided by emotionality and long for a universal good. If they question God’s existence, they usually use the argument that he should be able to fix all the pain and injustice in the world. They also easily believe in relative, or situational, truth and morality. Music worshipers always face the music. Our task is to fix their gaze beyond the music to the loving God who inspires it.