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| What's up with Christian bands these days? The alternative rock and harder bands are drifting further from the Christian scene in which they started and their songs are becoming less spiritual and more feel good or troubled soul. Want an example? Here's a quote from TFK's lead singer from their website:
"From a spiritual point of view, we're all Christian guys," says
McNevan. "We would never want to hide that fact, but musically, we just
want to play. We've been associated with gospel, with hip-hop/rock,
with a lot of things. We don't preach. I mean, "Rawkfist" certainly
proved that! I just write songs from my point of view, and we just want
to spread hope and positivity."
We don't preach. This coming from the same guy who wrote songs like "When in Doubt", a song about relying on God, "Come Along", a song about how Christ turned him from the things of this world, "Small Town", a song about a girl finding salvation, "Lift It", a song about giving things up to God, and "This is a Call", a song crying out to Jesus for salvation, but now "we don't preach." Did someone change the meaning of preaching the gospel message or something??? Preaching is about more than haughty, self-righteous teachings but about spreading the message of salvation and the love of God. Not every song has to be some deep spiritual journey but come on, abandoning the gospel message for feel good songs? It just doesn't seem right. Maybe I'm just bitter at the state of Christianity today, but maybe that's what is needed to get the revolution started.
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| "I need you
I love you
Though my world may fall i'll never let you go
My saviour, My closest friend.
I will worship you
Until the very end."
most of you will recognize these from the worship song, "Jesus, lover of my soul", but have you really stopped to think about them or just sang them like so many other songs? when i was at iwu and we sang this at iwu i really thought about these lyrics. i went over in my head what i would consider my world falling to be. i came up with mellissa either dying or leaving me to be my world falling since i was planning on spending the rest of my life with her. i wondered if i could hold on to God if either of those happened. i threw around the idea in my head until i had a feeling that i would most likely not bail on God, say 51% chance. i then dismissed the subject because there was no way it was going to happen to me. well, it did. mellissa left me and i had to face the decision. do i bail on God or do i hang on for all He's worth. while the real life situation is turning out better than the hypothetical in my head, as far as hanging on to God is concerned, i'm still having serious doubts about which direction my life should go but i'm hanging on. a big encouragement was something bud said in church history 2 about jean calvin's idea of election, or predestination as the term as been skewed to today. he said it was that God is always there chasing after us with His own plan for our life. the thought that God has been there with me through everything i have gone through and is still there is amazing. to think that someone would care to help me knowing everything about me that i know. all the times i've failed, all the hurt i've experienced, all the times i just haven't wanted to go on. i know i would probably have given up on myself long ago, maybe kept in touch every so often, but not have stuck beside me through everything. i could do it for others but not for myself. my world has fallen, my faith tested, but i will cling to God. no more lukewarm believing here. i have to go back a year and a half in my life to start the rebuilding. go back before these feelings for mellissa. it's the hardest thing i've ever had to do which says alot. 3 months before i graduated i had a friend die in a car wreck and i thought that saying goodbye to him would be the hardest thing i would have to do in my life. but of course i was wrong and this is much harder. to have to not love someone when you were planning on spending the rest of your life with that person is incredibly difficult. i wake up everyday with a void in my soul knowing that our relationship is over. i've ditched optimism because i've just been let down so much lately. pessimism reigns supreme as i wonder what i going to go wrong next. but whatever it is i'm not leaving God. not again...
if you're world should fall would you let Him go... | | |
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