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Author Topic:   If being Christian is so great, why is the music so bad?
Angeldust
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Message 55 of 99 (95781)
03-29-2004 9:54 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by nator
03-16-2002 6:18 PM


I think that there is some validity in everything that has been said up until this point, but just to put my two cents in....
The first problem is accessibility, well around here anyway. We don't have a Christian radio station and the only christian book store we had burnt down in January. That was the only place in town that we could get Christian music. I know in the states you can get it at some wal-marts but not here. So there may be tons of great stuff out there, but until I discoved internet radio I had no real access to it.
The second thing I think affects it is that most Christians try to deny strong negative emotions. If you read through Psalms you'll see that it's through struggling with God on issues like suffering and pain that you learn to see and to trust Him. In many Christian circles if you look like your struggling with something it appears unspiritual, like you don't trust God and your too weak to get through whatever it is. Real peace, and joy comes through struggling with God and finding Him to be faithful. By denying our struggles and our feelings we end up with a bunch of Christians who choose to be numb from feeling instead of questioning God. The result of this is pablum-like songs from people who have not found God faithful because they've refused to get that close to him. There aren't songs speaking of negative emotions because they've been denied existance, and no songs of real joy because without struggle real joy cannot exist. I'm not saying this of all song writers but I think it's common.
I think the negative emotion thing affects most of the world's population, not just Christians. But that's just a side note.
On the note of good Christian music, my preferances go towards 12 stones, Thousand Foot Krutch, and Jeremy Camp.
Read this http://www.jeremycamp.com/walk.html and then the following lyrics... this is not pablum-like. This is the story of someone who has learned trust. I think that makes all the differance.
Scattered words and empty thoughts
Seem to pour from my heart
I've never felt so torn before
Seems i dont know where to start
But its now i feel your grace fall like rain
From every fingertip washing away my pain
I still believe in your faithfulness
I still believe in your truth
I still believe in your holy word
Even when I dont see I still believe
Though the questions still fog up my mind
With promises i still seem to bear
Even when answers slowly unwind
It's my heart I see you prepare
But its now that I feel your grace fall like rain
From every fingertip washing away my pain
The only place I can go is into your arms
Where I throw to you my feeble prayers in brokeness
I can see that this is your will for me
Help me to know you are near

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