Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: johnw@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (John Warren) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Amy Grant Message-ID: Date: 5 May 91 02:21:02 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Space Science Labs Lines: 38 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 >close to the secluar music world. I think she is really walking the line >when she does this. I also feel that she is letting a lot of Christians >down. >--------------- >Peter S. Lee I'm not fed up. If she wants to make it big in the secular music charts, then more power to her. The world is the Lord's, and everything in it. Christians should excell at what they do, and if it brings them fame, then that's God's gift. (Now, do I have to give the balancing statement to that last sentence which goes something like, "Of course we can abuse our gifts and become proud like Saul, so we need to remain humble before the Lord and not let go to our heads"? Or can I let this go without saying, as something we all should know?) "Walking the line"? What does that mean? Jesus said we are to be in but not of the world. Now I haven't heard this new album of hers, but I know of all her previous stuff and from that she has demonstrated (at least to me) that musically she is in, not of, the world. I don't like that particular trend in Christianity that wants to retreat to monasteries of so-called 'holiness' (and, YES, I do believe that without holiness no one may see God) and that any delight that people may have in this world is held in suspicion by legalistic Christians who have lost the ability to experience any delight. I'm not flaming anyone in particular here. Just letting off a little steam about a phenomenon that has bothered me for many years. John Warren "is there someone in the shadows, someone that I might have missed?" -- Dylan [I think we've seen enough answers of this sort. I'm going to begin to be a bit more selective on this topic. --clh]