Christian Music?

Who cares about watching television, when your reasoning tells us that merely eating out of a TV dinner is enough to corrupt us under his influence.

Well yes, that too...

Sorry - do you mean eating food that was advertised in television or what?? :confused:

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Bobbler

Hillsong United are AWESOME :smile:

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Saichu

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Original post by Sovr'gnChancellor£

It makes perfect sense.

When rock first began to rear its head, the Christian church were so against it and called it evil and devilish - something not hard to believe then.

Now, it is incorporated into the Christian tradition too - hence Christian rock, pop etc - just because the lyrics speak of "God", does not necessarily mean it is "good"...

Your first post had nothing to do with what you just said; as such, it made no sense.

This is more easily explained by the Church being silly, rather than the rock bands being evil. If they were singing Satanic songs, you'd suspect that people would notice.

Edit:

Original post by Sovr'gnChancellor£

Well yes, that too...

Sorry - do you mean eating food that was advertised in television or what?? :confused:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_dinner

(edited 13 years ago)

Reply 23

concubine

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Comeback Kid are alrate. I think they bum Jesus.

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supernova92

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Original post by Sovr'gnChancellor£

It makes perfect sense.

When rock first began to rear its head, the Christian church were so against it and called it evil and devilish - something not hard to believe then.

Now, it is incorporated into the Christian tradition too - hence Christian rock, pop etc - just because the lyrics speak of "God", does not necessarily mean it is "good"...

Thanks for exapnding on your point. I didn't get what you meant, but i can see where you're coming from now.
I'll leave this for someone else to debate, as i'm not actually religous, I just didn't get your point :colondollar:

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Ayostunner

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Well i love most hillsongs songs :biggrin:

They're so uplifting!

However atm im in love with Muyiwa and Riversongz ...he's a nigerian gospel singer and he's amazing!

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Lilio Candidior

One of few bands with a Christian identity that I find appealing is the alternative country band 16 Horsepower and following their break-up, the solo-act Wovenhand.

The spirituality that they express is intense and dark, harshly looking at the desperation of being human, and the anxiety of wishing for salvation. Their music is one of the most humane musical renditions of Christian themes that I have heard. Here is a sample of it.

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Next1988

Lifehouse - Everything is nice,

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charlottepattbc

Original post by Sovr'gnChancellor£

It makes perfect sense.

When rock first began to rear its head, the Christian church were so against it and called it evil and devilish - something not hard to believe then.

Now, it is incorporated into the Christian tradition too - hence Christian rock, pop etc - just because the lyrics speak of "God", does not necessarily mean it is "good"...

I think the main problem the church used to have with rock was the 'sexual' aspect to it, not the music itself - after all, how can a certain chord change or whatever be evil?
Christian music is, in my opinion, "good" when compared to a lot of other music out there, both in terms of quality and its content. If you mean the former, then the quality these days has to rival most of the mainstream music or it won't stand a chance.as. people are already biased against it because it is Christian. If the latter, I personally feel uncomfortable with music that promotes violence and/or sexism so to listen to music that promotes respect and talks about God is far better.
The church has always been somewhat 'of the world' - even the king James translation was modern and new once. It's easier to focus on the meaning if you're not struggling to overcome the barrier of unfamiliarity - either with words or music styles.

It also amuses me how Christianity is so often criticised for being out of touch ( songs of praise is a prime example - even I get bored by that show a lot of the time) but any time it tries to move with the times it gets shot down for being too earthly... that's the way of the world I guess.

Apologies for spelling/grammar errors - trying to type this on my phone :s

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xoxAngel_Kxox

OP

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Original post by Beth Angharad

I love the usual artists, like Matt Redman, Tim Hughes, Hillsong... think my favourite Christian song has got to be The Stand. Also love Delirious, saw them a few years ago before they broke up, and they were incredible! :smile:

I was gutted when they broke up, never managed to see them :-(

Flyleaaaaf

Original post by charlottepattbc

I really like a lot of the American bands at the moment - Jesus culture and Israel Houghton for worship music, relient k, kutless, Tobymac and group 1 crew for other genres. Although that might be more to do with all my favourite British bands splitting up over the last year or two (yfriday, thebandwithnoname, delirious? etc).
I find listening to a soul survivor/spring harvest album really helps before an exam though :smile:

^^ This

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Sovr'gnChancellor£

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Original post by Saichu

Your first post had nothing to do with what you just said; as such, it made no sense.

This is more easily explained by the Church being silly, rather than the rock bands being evil. If they were singing Satanic songs, you'd suspect that people would notice.

Edit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_dinner

Oh, that is a TV dinner - many thanks. :h:

Yes, about my anti-Christian music posts - don't mind me, just feeling weird today.

I am not even religious or Christian, though my family may be. I just remember all of the nonsense that they were saying in my quasi-pentecostal church - if something is drummed in for a long time, then you begin to see the world in that manner: this is what happened to me before.

Now, however - I am fine. I no longer see the world in such a narrow way.

I will make you all at ease and vacate this thread - I am not supposed to be here, thus I will leave.

Goodbye and my apologies for interrupting.

(When I did listen to Christian music however, I particularly liked Don Moen, Hillsong and Matt Redman amongst others. :0 )