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Colossians 3:16; Ephesians 5:19 – What, No Instruments?
The reason the Winston-Salem church of Christ does not use instrumental music in our worship to God is the same reason why we don’t build arks. Noah was told to build an ark, Christians were not. Physical Israelites were commanded to use instrumental music. Christians were not. Unlike physical Israel, Christians don’t have a physical temple, physical priesthood, physical animal sacrifices, physical grain sacrifices, physical priestly clothes, physical location of sacrifices, physical circumcision allowing us to worship, physical foods that are clean or unclean, or physical genealogy. All those were approved too for physical Israel. While we are grafted into Israel, it is spiritual Israel because “not all Israel is Israel” (Rom.9:6). So is it more or is it less consistent to use only one of the physical parts of Israel, or to use none? Now I know why you don’t build arks, you’re not Noah. So are you physically an Israelite?
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