Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This article is a study of the theological reflections on the roles of music in missionary endeavors.The people, angels and Jesus Himself too sing.The role of music in missionary endeavors is biblical.The objective was to determine how the roles of music contribute to missionary endeavours.The study also sought to investigate how employing music in missianary endeavors can bear deep testimony that in joy and sadness, in praise and lament, in victory and temptation, the people of God raise their voices in song to Him.A wide range of books and other sources, primarily on music were consulted.Apart from books, an in-depth theological foundation on the roles of music connected to the birth and life of Christ, in Old Testament scriptures, in Hebrew schools, apostolic and a contemporary time was attempted.The findings showed that music should be considered an effective missional tool to carry information and promote the presence of the Seventh day Adventist church where there is none.It was also found that music is a strong missional tool for teaching children values, new information and history.Furthermore music is a unifying force to help people carry missionary work together.This study motivated and prepared believers to appreciate the role of music as missional tool to reach out to people.Based on the study, it is noted that music has remained essential to institutional life; hence must be employed on missionary endeavors.Therefore the church particularly in Africa is encouraged to accommodate Africans to express themselves to God as Africans in order to be missional relevant to them.God decorated the world with diversity; we need not blend in everybody but celebrate diversity and simply rid both Western and African music from demonic elements.
Author: Herbert Ndlovu
Institution: Solusi University
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4411411490