Posted on 05/27/2021 11:22:40 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Those aren’t “vain”. Anything but.
It’s hard to break into the music business.
When your career comes first, sometimes you have to crossover to a more popular genre.;-)
YUP.
Could be worse, could be the Dixie Chicks.
Nice strypes.
This music genre is just bearing it’s natural fruit. If you sow to please man, how can you expect to reap other than to please man (self)?
Yeah, no. It's the peril of pretending to be something one is not in order to advance one's own livelihood instead of the glory of God. God is not mocked, He knows His own sheep.
Yeah.
My Church experience is Church of Christ. And occasionally Baptist because my best friend as a boy was not allowed to come in my grandmother's house because he was a Baptist. I would sneak over to his house to drink Dr. Peppers and go listen to sermons in his Church. I really couldn'ttell mu difference.
This was around Abilene, Anson, Stamford, Sweetwater, Texas from 1970 on. So what is up with this?
As Hank Hill said, “You’re not making Christianity better, you’re just making Rock and Roll worse.”
“Praise Him with crashing cymbals, loud clashing cymbals!” - Psalm 150:5
Of the few Christian singers from my younger years that I'll still listen to are Dallas Holm and Evie Karlsson.
There is no unchristian music, only unchristian lyrics.
1 John 2:19
“They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.”
FWIW, one of best “Contemporary Christian” albums I have ever heard is Bob Dylan’s Slow Train Coming. Also included would be Paul Stookey’s solo album “Paul And”. I don’t know if either of them continued in the Faith, but the music they produced at the time was edifying and musically “divine”.
I am discouraged that some of these current contemporary Christian musicians need to go public when they walk away from the faith. I don’t know the current status of the Christian walk of Bob Dylan or Paul Stookey and that’s fine with me. They may have stepped back from their faith or never had it, but the music they produced lives on.
We are playing a Hillsong song this Sunday. It’s an amazing worship song and I don’t know the history of the composer. It’s still a tribute to God no matter who wrote it.
FWIW, I’ve never been a DC Talk fan. I wouldn’t recognize Kevin Max if we were together in an elevator. In fact I’d never heard his name till he renounced his faith. Well maybe now he’ll get the fame he so desperately sought.
Went to a dylan concert right before covid and he did slow train. He sings whatever tune he feels like but it was slow train. Also did gotta serve somebody.
That was his best album. Hands down.
And it had depth. I suspect from his music his faith was far older than the release date of his Christian music.
God said to Abraham, “kill me a son...”
Not from the best-known artists, might have something to do with it.
I said “much,” not “all.” There are still some Christian singers out there doing good music.
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