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Good post. Its very interesting ... there is no place in most churches today for people who are not spiritually uplifted by contemporary worship music. I just spoke to someone (new Christian) last week who wants to find a church that is vibrant but not contemporary-music centered. Such churches do not exist. I guess not all lost sheep are created equal (?)

That has been my observation. I moved a few years ago and began attending a church near where I now live. They do not teach about why they use melody led music, but that is what they do in practice.

The church I formerly attended had a mixture of traditional and contemporary music, and the young people who had been given leadership roles in music seemed to move progressively more and more toward having everything with a rock beat.

I never voiced my objections except for the one discussion I mentioned earlier, and it was after attending for more than a year. I noticed that the young people who promoted the rock music (some have their own contemporary Christian band) seemed to always walk around with a chip on their shoulder. They always avoided speaking to me (and I am not significantly different in age than most of them). The only time they would ever speak to anyone not in their clique was if you went right up and got in their way and greeted them. These are people leading music! I can only imagine how this would effect a new believer or an unbeliever if they were to experience this rudeness.

My experience with Christian rock is that its proponents are more interested in making converts to it and to make disciples of it, than they are in winning people to Christ and making them His disciples.

I will say that I know some godly believers who do listen to some contemporary music. These tend to be casual listeners rather than promoters of it. In my opinion, they are godly IN SPITE of the music rather than because of it. We all have blind spots or even besetting sins which hinder us from being as effective as possible in serving God.

What is frustrating is, as you point out, it is very difficult to find a doctrinally sound church which has not been infected by the contemporary music infatuation.