Parsing Contemporary Christian Music
Yesterday's post, Twice Excited , which referenced Jaeson Ma started a couple of discussions. Some indirectly, in that I brought up the song 'Glory' in conversation, and some more directly via email and facebook messages. From these conversations, two topics emerged: questioning the lyrical and theological content of contemporary Christian Music (CCM) and experiencing hesitancy in embracing Christian celebrities. I will leave that second topic for another post. What, then, about CCM? I need to begin by saying that I am overly sensitive to the lyrics of Christian music. I find that many of the worship songs we sing, as well as more popular CCM, are devoid of any kind of theological grounding and can contain lyrics which are flat our wrong/bad. Let me give you some examples. "Turn your eyes upon Jesus" - (not such a contemporary song, I know. I wanted to begin by reminding us that this is not a new problem, we just hear more new songs and so can...