One of the rallying cries of my college fellowship could well be, "Why Should The Devil Have All the Good Music?"We dun get it.
Why must our music be of mediocre quality?
With the tempo of a funeral dirge? And so on...
We cheered for DC Talk and Jars Of Clay when their songs were played over secular radio stations.
Even recorded our own 'demo' tape of Love Song For A Saviour and performed a 'live' cameo appearance in SS2 once.
We also mistook the star of the show for the PA technician.
Not surprisingly, we were never invited again.
But the contemporary Christian music scene is a huge industry now. I can no longer tell if I'm watching a Christian MTV from its quality.
Sometimes, I can't even tell if the lyrics are Christian either... with the generic references to God as "Love" or just 'You'. Or by the singers' lifestyles.
There are exceptions of course... Steve Camp posted 107 theses on the doors of Christian Music Industry, calling for Reformation.
FamilyChristian.com: What does worship mean to you?
Mac Powell of Third Day: (one of my fav bands)
"In a book called Desiring God, John Piper talks about how worship is about us enjoying God and not only giving Him praise and honoring Him with our lips and our hands lifted up, but enjoying our life with Him. We always focus on worship as being music, but worship is so much more than music. That's just a part of it... I think we've got to open up our minds a little more than just worship being music. It's living our whole lives just for God."
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