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Originally Posted by n david
Spotify is awesome! I'm a paid subscriber so I can have it on my phone and be able to "download" playlists. I love being able to select songs and add them to playlists. It beats having to pay for a cd just to get one or two good songs. Growing up, I was criticized for listening to Carman. My youth pastor confiscated a cassette I had of Carman, Commissioned and the Christ Church Choir. Can you believe that?
It's a good question on how to apply that verse, and if it applies to more than just idle words. IMO we will be judged by everything we do, word, deed, thought...everything. That's not to say we can't enjoy ourselves and listen to music that isn't for praise and worship to God. There are a lot of times when I remember, "Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O God."
Part of God being your guide and being led by the Spirit is through reading the Bible. I don't believe one is without the other. Prayer and the word are how we are led by the Spirit.
Southern Gospel, twangy, hillbilly music is of the debbil! I apologize if that's your favorite genre.  I have heard some ministers say that southern Gospel music was the only Godly music genre around. I couldn't tell if they were joking or serious.
IMO, music is best when used in worship to God. Nothing is more moving than a song with lyrics of worship to God, sung by people who are pouring their love out to Him.
Carman had a well-known saying I heard him say at every concert: "Garbage in, garbage out." It's true. What you fill your mind with will have an effect on your spirit. |
LOL ND!
Allow me to be carnal here for just a moment:
Jake Blues: What kind of music do you play here.
Bar Owner: Both kinds, country and western!
OK, now that I have that out of my system!
I listen to and play all kinds of music. I am not really into the Southern stuff, although I like some Crabb family and a few others, and it is my wife's fave (yes she has horns and carries a pitch fork). Love doing worship, well most of it anyway, and play Bass in our worship band at church. I listen to a large variety ... some stuff that would be considered more on the christian pop cultural side (Casting Crowns, Big Daddy Weave, Jeremy Camp) and even some of the lighter stuff (Kari Jobe, Laura Story, PCD, etc), but there are times I want to rock out a little (there I go using that heathen term again) and I throw on some of the harder stuff (Fireflight, Decyfer Down, Flyleaf, Ashes Remain, Red, Nine Lashes, etc.), and have even been known to occasionally make a foray into music that is by people who claim to be Christian playing music that does not have the name of Jesus in it (these people claim to be trying to reach people for Christ but that they can't playing Christian music because they would get stigmatized, and I can clearly see that. Bands like Paramore, 12 Stones, Icon for Hire, The Letter Black, etc.).
My position is, and will always be, that church should have the best worship music in the world. My question is, however, how much time do we spend ministering to ourselves, and what would the church look like if everything we did was with a mind to reach the lost and not just to keep ourselves saved. Would our music change any if there was a chance we could see more people turn to Jesus? How does that look? Are we afraid to go there because we might lose our food on the way?
Funny story about Carmen. He was one of the first Christian musicians I heard when God saved me. The person who turned me on to him shortly after received a "revelation" that she should only listen to music put out by UPC artists. And help everyone else to the same standard.
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