[I'm ALL Right!]

I'm in total agreement with you. We had a group of 400 kids. I can't tell you how many kids were brought into the minstry by going to a concert event with us...then they got involved, made friends, and were exposed to the Gospel through teaching, small groups etc...

My husband is a product of such minstry! Someone took him to a Petra concert when he was a teen. He views that as a turning point in his life...not because of the music, but because he was exposed to Christianity through something to which he related easily (rock music) and it made him more open to hearing more.

We're on the same side, I think.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Great post. You "get it".

[reaganaut]

I think we are on the same page too. Since you work with youth also, you may want to check out an interesting book called "Rock Stars on God" by Doug Van Pelt. It is a collection of interviews from HM (Christian rock mag) of secular artists.

Alice Cooper's Christian testimony is in it and it is AWESOME! The other artists vary, but there is a lot of artists who have the attitude "Jesus is ok, if you wanna believe in that sorta thing". It was interesting to see the philosophy that is behind some of these bands.