Take for an example Acts, the authorized history of the church’s beginning and its progress from Jerusalem to Rome. Acts 2 describes how people receive forgiveness and the gift of the Spirit and enter the church (Acts 2:36-41). It goes on to describe their Spirit-filled, worship-filled lives (Acts 2:42-47). But Acts 2 offers no direct reference to music. More amazingly, the entire book of Acts has only one reference to any sort of music. That reference waits until the sixteenth chapter of Acts and a gloomy prison. Two wounded prisoners exert amazing willpower to turn their pain-filled groans into songs of praise.
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. (Acts 16:25)
That’s it. That’s the music, as reported in Acts. Do you sense that something has changed?