Double life, compromise and unsafe truths

The Christian musician’s commitment to the divine ministry: challenges and paradoxes of secular services in Haiti or abroad.

The latest program “Moman Krety” of Thursday, August 21, 2025 tackled a burning and recurring subject in the Haitian evangelical landscape: the status of the Christian musician, called to serve in the divine ministry while exercising his talents in secular musical groups, often during balls of balls or services where debauchery and other practices contrary to God are common.

The identity dilemmas of the Christian musician

Among the interventions, several voices mentioned the tension experienced by the Christian musician, an essential actor of adoration in church, but also professional in search of income and opportunities. This double status creates a deep ambiguity: how can we glorify God through sacred music while participating in party environment where values ​​are radically opposed to the Gospel?

“It is or God, or the world … We cannot play for God and for the glory of something else at the same time”, it takes an authentic and exclusive consecration of the worshiper.

Music: profession or sacred ministry?

The question is constantly returning to debates: does Christian music only fall under a profession, or is it above all a sacred vocation? The plateau recalls that, unlike other trades (journalist, accountant), the role of the musician in an evangelical context is intrinsically linked to the spirituality and the worship of God. Music, by nature, creates an atmosphere conducive to connection with God – a role that other administrative functions within the Church cannot equal.

Ethical and spiritual challenges of secular services

The main issue raised by this program concerns the spiritual and moral risk that the Christian musician runs when he embarks on Haitian secular groups. The dancing evenings, many festivals and live services are not only places of entertainment; They are often associated with drug consumption, debauchery and all kinds of behaviors reproved by the Bible, not to mention the omnipresent mystical and evil side in HMI (Haitian Music Industry), necessary to be able to exist for a long time. This raises the question of influence and spiritual coherence: is the testimony of the Christian musician preserved when he exercises in such environments?

The consequences for the Church and the Community

According to the speakers, this “mixture” between praise and the show business puts the church in the face of major problems of spiritual leadership and talent management. Many pastors, often devoid of adequate training and skills to supervise this problem, let the excess of the spiritual life and the testimony of the Christian community pass.

“We are faced with a domino effect … Everyone is influenced, money is a priority, and often the pastor is not up to the main pastor task”.

For authentic consecration

The program invites to a deep reflection: to accept the role of worship is to deliberately choose the way of consecration, even if it means renouncing certain professional or financial opportunities. The Christian musician must remember that his gift is devoted to God, and that it is about his spiritual integrity.

Stake for the church: restore the sacred border

One of the great challenges to be met by the Haitian church is to restore the sacred border between worship music and secular music. This goes through:

• Train and supervise musicians so that they understand the weight of their spiritual mission.
• Sensitize pastors to require the consecration and to avoid the detrimental “mixture”.
• Create professional spaces for Christian musiciansin order to reduce their dependence on the secular music industry and its traps.

The Ministry of the Christian musician demands much more than a talent or a professional competence: it requires a consecration and a coherence of life which honor God and strengthen evangelical testimony, especially in the face of the many challenges and temptations of secular environments in Haiti or abroad. It is a call not only to alertness, but to authenticity and spiritual radicality.