Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: kday@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Kevin Day) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Amy Grant Message-ID: Date: 5 May 91 01:39:42 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: David Taylor Research Center, Bethesda, MD Lines: 49 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article plee@wam.umd.edu (Peter S. Lee) writes: >I'm wondering how many of you out there are fed up with Amy Grant switching >over to secular music charts. Her new album, "Heart in Motion", is too I am totally thrilled at what Amy Grabt is doing. What is that, you ask? She's getting her backside off the church pew and getting out to where the people, who need to hear what she has to say, are. Several years ago, Amy had another hit single, "Find A Way". I went and saw one of her concerts on that tour. It was definitely a "secular" concert, though I really hate that distinction we feel we must put on evrything. The place (Merriweather Post Pavilion, outside of Baltimore) was packed to the rafters. Was the concert entertaining? You bet, it was great. But...Amy pulled know punches when it came to letting the crowd of the almost 20,000 people there know where she stood. And you know what happened when she did? They listened. They saw a normal person, telling them that Jesus had come and died for them. Many of them, I sure, thought Christians were just fat, loud mouthed, pompous no it alls that thought they could force the world to be Christians. Face it guys, that's how we come acrossed a lot of the time and that's all you see from the "tele-###### evangelists". Instead, they saw someone who basically said, "Hey, I don't have all of life figured out. I sometimes fall. But I know that Jesus died for my sins and he is Lord of my life, and I love him with all of my heart." Speaking of her newest songs: When did it become wrong to sing about your love for your wife/husband/children/mother/father/etc. Where does it say that all of our songs must have at least 4 Jesus', 3 Gods' and 2 holys' in it or we're misusing the talents God gave us. Guess what, it doesn't. God has given me the gift of writing music. I do use it to praise him. I also use it to admire and show love and appreciation to the people he has put in my life. Either usage of that gift praises God, the giver of the gift. I think it's time more Christians got outside the church walls with their music. I'd like to see the whole top 40 with nothing but Christians. Then the world would find out that you could love someone without jumping into bed with them. They would hear that you can thoroughly enjoy life without putting artificial substances in your body. Boy do they need to hear that. How will they find that out if the people who know that best of all won't tell them because they're afraid to sing songs about everyday life? I don't think Madonna can do it. I know Amy Grant can and does, and I thank God for her. K. Scott Day David Taylor Research Center Bethesda, Maryland ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot." -Robert Green Ingersoll ------------------------------------------------------------------------