I'm writing this article while on a Christian camp.
Here and at camps all over the country we’ve been learning about the extraordinary events of the Reformation. It’s struck me that the applications driving through the talks are focussed on making sure that the Word of God is clearly understood, leading to absolute assurance of salvation because (and only because) of the grace of God.
Music serves the Word
One of the happy results of the work of Luther and some of his fellow reformers was that there was also a rethinking about the way music was done in churches where there was a commitment to hearing the Word of God clearly. The biggest driving factor was the insistence that the Word of God needed to be served by music, and not the other way round.
