If you knew someone who is in the music industry (doesn’t have to be someone famous, but can include the famous), yet was seeking to become a Christian, what biblical advice would you give to him (precautions, encouragements, etc.), given what you know about the industry (good or bad) in modern times?
Generally speaking, irrespective of who one is or what it is that one does (including vocationally), the same Gospel message and prescription for redemption applies to one and all alike. The apostle Paul represented the Christians at Corinth to have become the children of God although they had been guilty of any number of and any manner of sins—many of which sinful ways are especially represented in contemporary mankind.
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Corinthians 6:9-11 NKJV)
In addition, the apostle Paul spoke regarding the integrity and honorableness of one’s chosen vocation. In other words, there are some livelihoods even though they be legal and socially acceptable nevertheless involve sin—from which faithful Christians ought to distance themselves (e.g., bartender, abortion provider, etc.). “Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need” (Ephesians 4:28). Note also 1 Thessalonians 4:11-12, “…mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing.”
Every vocation that one might consider needs to be examined to discern (1) if it is something sinful or not of itself and (2) to evaluate the likelihood of it leading the worker or other people astray from God’s will. “Do not be deceived: ‘Evil company corrupts good habits’” (1 Corinthians 15:33).
