For some time now I have felt that His image was shared between the man and the woman so that when the two come together in marriage the full image of God is present. I have come to think that God's image is even bigger than that and that it is not just shared between men and women. He had to share it with all the 6800 distinct people groups of the world. Taken together, all the cultures of the world reflect the incredible complexity, diversity, wonder and greatness of our God. There is certainly nothing sacred about our language and music.
Every culture is a fallen culture because of the nature of fallen man.
And in the same way that there is something redeemable in every fallen man, there is something redeemable in every fallen culture as well. And, when we hear them all sounding together for The first time as we stand around the throne, then, and only then, I believe we'll get to hear the very heart music of God. At this point I would have to consider them to be the great commission group that is most on the cutting edge of music in missions. An excellent overview of their work can be found in the May-August 1996 issue of the Mission Frontier Bulletin. We joke about Spanish speakers always sounding like they're arguing, or Dutch speakers always sounding like they're about to spit, or Chinese sounding like dropping pans for instance.