[AnglePark]

19. Listening to Christian metal.

The Bee usually makes me laugh, but this list gave me a particularly good chuckle. I grew up in a Pentecostal church, and it wasn't just Christian rock, but ANY rock music. It was demonized almost weekly. And let's not forget women wearing jeans...

[Tell It Right]

During my teenage years in a Baptist church I'd every now and then visit my friend's church -- an Assembly of God church. They called themselves "Pentecostal" in that they believe (as I do) that the Acts 2 spiritual gifts that happened that year on the Day of Pentecost still occur today (as well as many other spiritual gifts like in 1st Corinthians 12, Romans 12, and Ephesians 4). They were a majority white church that always thought they were black when the worship band played. LOL And there were a few times that they had Christian Rock bands play there on a Friday night.

They were really big on encouraging people to meditate on Jesus in your free time using whatever means spoke your language (i.e. rock music) as long as the message was louder than the medium and as long as the message was true to the Bible. But reduce how often you meditate on worldly ways (i.e. don't listen to music that pushes worldly teachings). IMHO that's sound advice no matter if we're talking about music or television or internet or whatever.

And for the past 39 years most of the music I've listened to has a Christian message (probably about 95% of more) and half of it has a rock n roll bent. LOL

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

My favorite Christian metal band;

Twisted Scripture.

[JimRed]

I grew up in a Pentecostal church, and it wasn't just Christian rock, but ANY rock music. It was demonized almost weekly. And let's not forget women wearing jeans...

Imagine the furor if they'd had those tight yoga pants back then!