Non-Christians in the music group?

Richard Simpkin  |  Features  |  Music
Date posted:  1 Aug 2004
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After this year's Evangelical Ministry Assembly, one of the questions that threw up a bit of discussion was whether we should ask non-Christian musicians to play or sing in our meetings.

I'll be up-front and admit that I am not keen, but the Bible doesn't stipulate either way, so I'm happy to have my opinion changed (actually that's not true - I'm a sensitive artistic type, so I'm prone to take any challenge personally and go all quiet and moody).

Let me put some arguments for and against.

For:

1) We don't discourage non-Christians from singings hymns with us in the congregation. What's the difference in having them sing them standing up front?

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