Glimpses #25: Sing and Make Melody to God
Format: 2-page bulletin insert
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Product Description: Music has the power to reach the soul when a sermon might simply fall on deaf ears. Some of the church's heretics realized this more than the orthodox Christians did. In the 4th century, Arius believed the Son was a creature of the Father; his writings and beliefs were condemned as heretical by several church councils. Arius wrote songs popularizing his ideas with the common people. Since church buildings were forbidden to them in the capital city of Constantinople, on worship and festival days the Arians would meet in public places, singing their songs antiphonally all night long. The tunes were catchy, and soon everyone was singing the songs, whether they believed Arius' doctrines or not.
The church father Chrysostom feared this would bring people away from the truth, so he organized, with the sponsorship of Empress Eudoxia, nightly processions and hymn singing with silver crosses, candles, and pageantry. At times there were riots and bloodshed when the two sides met. The "Battle of the Bands" was an early church example of the power of music to influence a people's spiritual direction.
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