Re: "Christian" rock music....( not again....o no)
- From: "Gordon Hudson" <gordon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 13:37:45 -0000
"Thom" <A@xxxxx> wrote in message
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> Don't you think you're overspiritualizing the issue?
>
> I know that anything that has no value in the Kingdom of God is essent=
> long) but do you really think that it's correct to brand it as evil?
>
> If it is evil simply for being 'not gratifying to God' then does that =
> Take for example any good act done by any individual who is not a Chri=
>
> No! It's not, it's just not worth much either.
>
> My conclusion, Non-Christian Rock music isn't evil and some of it is g=
> quality (in my opinion). Try listening to some 'Switchfoot' though, th=
> Live' both on the album 'The Beautiful Letdown'.
>
>
> To continue, I'd say it's the content of the lyrics that is much more =
>
> An excerpt from a song I've been writing recently goes;
>
> "And now the beautiful release
> Comes to guard my soul tonight
> It=92s not the chain you think it is
> It=92s free, it=92s good, it=92s right
> I=92m free to live a better life
> I=92m free to fight the better fight tonight"
>
> Now tell me this, if that were a poem without musical backing, would i=
> Ok, now add an acoustic guitar and an electric, oh, bass + drums too a=
>
Surely God can use anything.
For example, the music of the Moody Blues had a big influenc eon me taking
an interest in spiritual things, not because they were suggesting any
answers but because they were asking the right questions in their lyrics.
Why do we never get an answer
When we're knocking at the door
With a thousand million questions
About hate and death and war?
'Cos when we stop and look around us,
There is nothing that we need,
In a world of persecution that is burning in its greed.
Why do we never get an answer
When we're knocking at the door
Because the truth is hard to swallow
That's what the war of love is for.
It's not the way that you say it
When you do those things to me
It's more the way that you mean it
When you tell me what will be.
And when you stop and think about it
You won't believe it's true
That all the love you've been giving
Has all been meant for you.
I'm looking for someone to change my life,
I'm looking for a miracle in my life,
And if you could see what it's done to me,
To lose the love I knew
Could safely lead me through.
Between the silence of the mountains,
And the crashing of the sea,
There lies a land I once lived in,
And she's waiting there for me,
But in the grey of the morning,
My mind becomes confused,
Between the dead and the sleeping,
And the road that I must chose.
I'm looking for someone to change my life,
I'm looking for a miracle in my life,
And if you could see what it's done to me,
To lose the love I knew
Could safely lead me to,
The land that I once knew,
To learn as we grow old,
The secrets of our soul.
It's not the way that you say it
When you do those things to me,
It's more the way you really mean it
When you tell me what will be.
Why do we never get an answer
When we're knocking at the door
With a thousand million questions
About hate and death and war?
'Cos when we stop and look around us,
There is nothing that we need,
In a world of persecution that is burning in its greed.
Why do we never get an answer
When we're knocking at the door
Because the truth is hard to swallow
That's what the war of love is for.
.
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