Saturday, October 20, 2007

My Remarks to Your Comments

Wow, those were some good comments from the last blog post! Thanks for all your input. Let me share just a few things that I have been thinking about in regards to your comments.

  • Yes, I was "assuming" these bands were "Christian" because I hear them on the radio. That is my bad. That was my assumption, but not anymore.
  • Yes, I will still enjoy the music, but I will only take it for what it is. It is good "clean" rock, with a good message, but it just comes up short from Glorifying God. (I don't know, but isn't that what we are suppose to do? Glorify God? Isn't that what we were created for?)
  • I do NOT believe that a good message is basically the same concept as a Christ centered message. Giving a "Christian theme" in a song is not going to save many souls. After all I know many agnostic people who can show "love" towards others better than Christians can and do. The point is we can't "show Christian love" without telling them about Jesus. Jesus didn't just serve others...He told people every where He went about the Kingdom Message, and why He came. We should do the same! That is why Romans 10:14 says, "How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without somone preaching to them?"
  • Brandon, you know that I too listen to the all sermon station, but sometimes you just have to worship in song, ya know. I am once again more interested in gleaning wisdom from the likes of Alistair Begg, Paul Sheppard, Skip Heitzig, and others because of this...

I am keeping this short intentionally. I hope to have more thought-provoking information like this in the near future. Thanks for being real with me by giving your honest feedback.

Keep it real.

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think you're being hard on these bands.Their job is to entertain people.We can glorify God by doing our job to the best of our ability.Many of us have jobs that don't include speaking Jesus' name at all times or having the opportunity to share verbally the Word. Being honest,kind,hard-working is God pleasing. It would be great if these bands used the venue they had to share the Word but we don't know how they share or don't share when they are not on the stage.Just as we all fall short of using the opportunity God gives us to share His message. We have no idea what kind of people these band members are, christian or not. They are on the stage to entertain not call people to Jesus. Would it be great to hear and see Jesus being praised on that stage that night? Absolutely.I would say it was a missed opportunity.

Anonymous said...

But don't you think its possible to show Christian love other ways...I would have to say a lot of people show Christian love without openly preaching to people. Take a ministry like Degage, yeah a Christian message is important, but giving a meal and a place to sleep to people who don't have any is a great example of Christian love. Christian love means you show love to someone no matter what, and often they will ask why...then the message about Jesus becomes important. Approaching things with a Christ-like attitude is how I show Christian love. I'm pretty sure it has worked, I love people whether they want to hear the message or not, because that's what God would want me to do. But I can't just jump the message on someone, their heart has to accept it. That's where the physical acts of helping people like Christ would comes in to play.

Melissa said...

You're right. There is a difference between a good message and a Christian message. There has to be, otherwise why don't secular stations play "Christian" songs on their stations. If it's all about being good, Christian would qualify. But that's not what it's about. People are too scared to talk about Jesus, so they'll play positive songs on some stations, but that doesn't necessarliy mean they are Christian songs!

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