This is a first look at “syllabus”. It’s in the title but it’s not a syllabus. What I have here is some useful ideas about the syllabus. Following feedback I will provide more information to explain, clarify and support others test and implement this.
Primary ideas
- Music Discipleship goes “hand in hand” with discipleship – for clarification I have referred this as ‘salt & light discipleship’.
- For easier reference Salt & Light Discipleship is SLD, Music Discipleship is MD.
- MD cannot be independent of SLD since it is in your continuing maturity as a child of God that you carry out MD.
- How you carry out SLD is entirely up to your church / fellowship etc. My series here ‘Knowing God – outcome’, which is about the Fruits of the Holy Spirits, have some starting ideas.
- For example (not from ‘Knowing God – outcome’), you might have a theme on “Praying for others in need” over 3 months. Example:
- Learning about prayers in the Bible – in Sunday sermon, some sessions in house groups, personal reflection etc.
- Additional materials from sermons and other writings about prayers.
- Listen to and understand prayer needs of others.
- Practice to pray for others in need.
- For MD part, examples of what you might
- Find what you can learn about poems, lyrics, songs/hymns that are about prayer.
- Find out other similar items used as part of prayer.
- As part of this, you will learn the music, the practical side of playing the music, and also how you practise the music.
- Share about your on-going music learning with others, and play and sing the music together.
- As you learn the music, it is not music for music sake. You are practising it for the sake of worshipping God, sharing time and supporting each other in the music group. Your time in practising is a holy sacrifice.
This is only one of several ways of running the MD programme, along with SLD. Obviously, your choice of music might depend on a few things e.g. you prefer slower speed of music. Guitarists may have preference of keys different from keyboard players. This is part of working together in fellowship. The rich interaction acts out your discipleship training of learning, leadership, prayer, support and respect for everyone.
Depending on feedback, I will provide more approaches, and further explanations.
