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Narrow Listening Habits = Bad Eschatology

If your listening habits can be summed up in the statement, "I like all kinds of music—country and western!" you should probably repent. Maybe you're thinking to yourself that you're off the hook because you exclusively listen to U2 and Coldplay. Well, you should probably repent too.

Sorry, I'm overstating my point. I'm not picking on genres, tastes, or preferences, but just narrowness in general. Pasty white guy culture is only one of thousands—if not tens of thousands—of microcultures that will be present in the glorious anti-Tower of Babel, the new Jerusalem.

It's going to be quite a party in honor of our great and glorious King, so you might want to familiarize yourself with the jams of your multicultural brethren. That way, you won't be caught with your hands in your pockets when it's time to stomp your feet and clap your hands when the music comes in.

Thinking God's Thoughts After Him and Musical Diversity

Faithfully imaging our Creator God means, in part, that as image bearers undergoing sanctification, we think God's thoughts after him. In addition, just as he has created a vast diverse world, we can't help but think up derivative creative works in the process. Now out of the billions currently on the planet, there's a whole mess of musicians with a whole mess of derivative works, and that equals a whole beautiful mess of musical diversity.

To be continued.

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