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Young and Pious: A Rock & Roll Story (A Christian Music Story)
Rolling Stone Magazine ^
| 8/31/2006
| Stephanie Keith
Posted on 08/31/2006 7:19:59 AM PDT by Fighting Irish
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To: Fighting Irish
I'd have to say Johnny Cash is my favorite CCM artist.
To: Fighting Irish
To: Fighting Irish
The one thing I have notices in the last 10 years is the MASSIVE increase of the number of Christian music stations. They are in every major city of the USA (I travel alot). Also the Christian music is top rate - as good as any rock and roll. With the mix of music they play, plus the promise of music that families can listen to without diving for the dial - they are getting hugely popular. I hear them in banks, restaurants, etc. If you didn't know the song - you would just think it was any music radio...definitely a bright spot in movement of this nation. And a very "slick" advertising campaign for Jesus.
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posted on
08/31/2006 7:28:06 AM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
To: Fighting Irish
I don't know what this music sounds like, but it can't be any worse than most of the baby boomer "praise music" heard in most megachurches today.
(From a gen X fogey)
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posted on
08/31/2006 7:28:12 AM PDT
by
dinoparty
To: 2banana
Devil's advocate: I'm not sure Jesus needs or wants slick advertising. Its a long stretch to derive the need for "slick advertising" from the Bible's Great Commission.
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posted on
08/31/2006 7:31:24 AM PDT
by
dinoparty
To: dinoparty
I should say the pun was intended. :) (Not to take away from my point.)
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posted on
08/31/2006 7:32:06 AM PDT
by
dinoparty
To: dinoparty
Devil's advocate: I'm not sure Jesus needs or wants slick advertising. Its a long stretch to derive the need for "slick advertising" from the Bible's Great Commission Slick wasn't the right word - more like music that directly tunes into the culture to proclaim the good news - something that Paul would have agreed with 100%.
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posted on
08/31/2006 7:34:15 AM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
To: dinoparty
With all due respect, Jesus gave a speech from a boat to over 5,000 people on the shore without a PA system, yet every ear heard. Twice, he fed the masses with only a few loaves and fish. I think that's pretty 'slick'.
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posted on
08/31/2006 7:35:23 AM PDT
by
Hoodat
( ETERNITY - Smoking, or Non-smoking?)
To: Fighting Irish
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posted on
08/31/2006 7:41:51 AM PDT
by
Hoodat
( ETERNITY - Smoking, or Non-smoking?)
To: Hoodat
"Without a PA system"...
Exactly.
Why can't churches these days do without a PA system or amplifiers?
Actually, I have nothing against modern technology as such in churches, but I do not like lame "praise music" that sounds like bad renditions of "Air Supply" songs, followed by "slick" sermons that sound like I'm listening to a used car salesman (or a slick lawyer, for that matter). I guarantee that Jesus or Paul didn't come across this way.
To: dinoparty
I don't know what this music sounds like, but it can't be any worse than most of the baby boomer "praise music" heard in most megachurches today. There is a massive change in direction when it comes to todays "young" christian music.
It is leaving the realm of entertainment and moving towards worship.
To see kids with their hands in the air, crying, falling to their knees, singing at full voice with their eyes closed and not giving a rip about what their peers think ..... well...it's what some might call a "far cry" from the music we old fogies had in the 70's and 80's.
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posted on
08/31/2006 7:51:36 AM PDT
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Fighting Irish
(Béagán agus a rá go maith)
To: dinoparty
Why can't churches these days do without a PA system or amplifiers? There won't be any in heaven ..... we'll all have perfect ears and great seating...for those of you who prefer to sit.
Personally ..... It cannot get loud enough, joyful enough or worshipfull enough for me here on Earth.
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posted on
08/31/2006 7:56:37 AM PDT
by
Fighting Irish
(Béagán agus a rá go maith)
To: dinoparty
Agreed. The 'praise music' is tuneless, monotone, flattened, and without melody. It also seems to to have any rhythmic structure, but stumbles forward, or lurches.
Very boring.
Give me 'Higher Ground' or 'When The Roll is Called Up Yonder' anytime.
To: squarebarb
Love this CD!
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posted on
08/31/2006 8:03:13 AM PDT
by
JZelle
To: proud_2_B_texasgal
The Newsboys are my fave!
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posted on
08/31/2006 8:05:35 AM PDT
by
freedomson
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To: Fighting Irish
"But you know it's strange, the same music that they kicked me out of school for is the same kind of music they play in their churches today. The difference is, I know I am playing for the devil and they don't."
-- Jerry Lee Lewis
To: 2banana; dinoparty
"something that Paul would have agreed with 100%"
How do you know Paul would agree with using this kind of music?
Paul did not use enticing words, and he explicitly rebuked licentiousness, lasciviousness, carnality and sensuality. He taught modesty, self control, and sensitivity toward the possibility of offending or stumbling others.
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posted on
08/31/2006 8:53:55 AM PDT
by
unlearner
(You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
To: Hoodat; dinoparty
"With all due respect, Jesus gave a speech from a boat to over 5,000 people on the shore without a PA system, yet every ear heard. Twice, he fed the masses with only a few loaves and fish. I think that's pretty 'slick'."
And what did He say to the crowd later?
He did not come to lead them around the wilderness like Moses and feed them miraculously with perishable food. He came to give Himself as food that would give the partaker eternal life.
Jesus was not being "slick" by meeting the needs of the people who listened in the wilderness. When they became more focused on the sign than Who the sign pointed to, and more focused on having their belly filled than the nourishment of their spirit, He left them.
There might be many ways you could describe Christ's and the apostles' preaching and teaching, but "slick" is not one of them. They proclaimed that to follow Christ you must be willing to let go of the things you hold dear, you must expect trials and persecution.
A lot of Christian ministries today prefer to make money with ear tickling rather than proclaiming the true gospel (sincere and without offense) and teaching sound doctrine.
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posted on
08/31/2006 8:54:00 AM PDT
by
unlearner
(You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
To: Fighting Irish
Perhaps I should stop myself next time I want to post a christian music thread.
Call me when the subtle vitriol has played itself out ...
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posted on
08/31/2006 9:02:04 AM PDT
by
Fighting Irish
(Béagán agus a rá go maith)
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