One of the things I love about being a Christian is it gives me so many things to think about. The Bible is such deep book, so many life lessons. Recently, I had a struggle with music and morality. I come from the understanding that music has a deep influence on all of us spiritually. I personally think that a lot secular music has a spirit behind it. As Christians, we need to be careful what we take into our sensors(eyes, ears, mouth), meaning, we should carefully examine the music we listen to, the movies we watch, the video games we play, and the items that we eat and drink. Now, I will say that I firmly believe in Christian liberty, we have liberty with all these things as long as they are not strictly forbidden in the Bible.
Back to my music struggle, One of my favorite bands is Third Day, they are Christian rock, much in the vain of Black Crowes and Led Zeppelin style music. Here is my struggle, is all "Christian" music good? One side of me says no, the other side of me says that I am a hypocrite for saying no. I don't know if I agree that if the lyrics are right then the music is right. Let me make an example, there is a style of music called "Death Metal" it's inception was to be anti moral and more specifically anti Christian. Well, some Christians have copied that and made "Christian" death metal. There is a band called Zombie Gutz, they claim to be Christian, but listening to their music, I don't get it, I don't see it. Now, I am not that old, I grew up in the Heavy metal era so I don't think this is my opinion just because I am 34. So where is the line drawn, where does Christian liberty turn into just plain being the world? I think that Christian music must glorify God, this stuff glorifies flesh in my opinion. That is one of the reason's my I like Third Day so much, I know there they stand. I used to wonder at times in the past about the music that was labeled "Christian" because there was not glorifying God. My inclination was confirmed when I heard a radio interview with Steve Camp, any old timers remember him, he used to be in the CCM movement in the 80's and 90's and he said that much of it was about money and not about glorifying God. So I guess my final word on this is, test the spirits, make sure that we use Christian liberty wisely, if we are too loose with it, the end result could be sin. God Bless
Friday, April 6, 2007
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