Just so we completely understand, please tell us all just what chord progressions are secular and which ones are Holy, blessed, Christian, nonsecular (pick your favorite descriptive...) Enlighten us also as to which metronome settings are secular, and which are Holy. (Maybe anything faster than quarter note=60 is secular, huh?) And while you're at it, maybe a listing of which instruments are blessed and which are evil... I was told once some years ago that my saxophone couldn't be sanctified because saxophones are played in (gasp) jazz bands. Is that true?
I really am curious about these things, since I wouldn't want to somehow be involved in secular music....
By the way, Martin Luther's "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" is to the tune of an olde German bar song... does that make it EVIL?
Real easy. If they are dressing like the rock bands that don’t claim to be christian, or are coming right out and saying they are anti-christian, then that’s a problem. If their behavior mimics these bands on stage or in their videos, that’s a problem. If they are playing the same kind of music the secular bands are playing, that’s a problem.
If you can’t tell them apart from the world, you need to determine if they really are.
It’s not my standards, this isn’t my personal test. It’s from Scripture. Test everything to see if its from God or not. If it walks like a duck, beats a drum like a duck, hammers out hard rock chords like a duck, screeches and screams into a microphone in front of screaming fans like a duck, it’s a duck.
I’m not saying there isn’t a place for rock music, whatever genre it is shooting for. Just don’t try to pass off anything rock as ‘christian’. It just isn’t.