Posted on 12/07/2004 12:06:09 PM PST by LouAvul
The growing clout of America's 100-million evangelical Christians is being heard loud and clear. Just turn on your radio, and you'll notice that a seismic shift in American culture is taking place.
Before, you could tune into different stations, which offered different music and different messages.
But now, as Correspondent Bob Simon reports on 60 Minutes Wednesday, Dec. 8, at 8 p.m. ET/PT,, evangelical Christian music is flowing into mainstream media -- and changing it. In fact, Christian entertainment now brings in $4 billion a year.
Rappers and rockers are making hits and making money while spreading the gospel to national audiences. Christian groups can be heard on secular radio and seen on "The Tonight Show." Earlier this year, the group Third Day even played at the Republican National Convention.
"The fact that there are Christian themes now emerging in rock and that Christians are in rock is just representative of a spiritual desire or a spiritual hunger in our culture," says Cameron Strang, publisher of Relevant Magazine, a religious publication.
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A person who has never budged beyond the room in which he was born, is ill fit to describe the Andes mountains.
If the message depends on the human messenger, then God's plan is in big trouble.
Yup.
Where is the Scriptural warrant for maintaining a musical status quo? Was "Thou shalt not rock before Me" a forgotten commandment? Does style of song dictate a message or is there an ability to enhance such a message through differing styles?
To be fair, the Calvinist reformers hated Christmas too. Martin Luther didn't.
Sounds like Jehovah's witnesses. Are they among us tonight ?
No. Thats MTV. My kid has a POD album, and I listened to it, read the lyrics, read what the actual band members had to say - who they thanked, etc... and I found that they DO have a message of Hope and Salvation - they are also incredibly popular with the kids. So, It's no surprise that MTV would lump them in with the other popular groups of the day.
Well, that's because Martin Luther was a cool dude.
Oh man. This is too much.
I DON'T BELIEVE THAT MUSIC WITH A BACKBEAT IS INTRINSICALLY DEMONIC. I hope, Jorge, that THAT is clear enough for you.
That's what he calls it. LOL
***So, It's no surprise that MTV would lump them in with the other popular groups of the day.***
I doubt that MTV did so without their consent.
Slip Knot is definitely not Christian. Stay away from that one.
The others I have never heard of before.
Now I know what that lady means when she sings "The Rythmn is gonna get ya" - she's using "rythmn" as a euphemism for "Devil"
Yes, it is pathetic.
Sure,t ehy probably had consent, but I doubt the artists had any say in the packaging...
STRIPES REUNION!!!
I can't believe you had to explain that, and were thought to be "confused".
Well, I don't know squat about music LOL
That ol' devil rock 'n' roll....
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