Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: cci632!dls@cs.rochester.edu (Darren Swartzendruber) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Some thoughts on "Christian Music" Message-ID: Date: 25 Feb 90 03:55:26 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: CCI, Communications Systems Division, Rochester, NY Lines: 40 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu When I started reading this thread, I thought it was concentrating solely on contemporary Christian music. The thread has seemed to have expanded to cover all Christian forms of music. Music is one thing that is created from a person's spirit. When one listens to music, I believe it effects his/her spirit. That is why it is important to consider writer's spiritual condition. All this talk about one form of music being "more spiritual" than another form is fruitless (especially since it is subjective). So I propose this, there is not one form of music that is "more spiritual" than another, but that the writer's spirit makes the music spiritual. I attend Calvary Chapel of the Finger Lakes. For worship, we sing praise and worship songs, Psalms, and other contemporary songs (there is even a rap song in a blue moon). If I went to the church my parents attend, I would hear hymns. To me, hymns are not as uplifting as the praise songs I am accustom to singing, but I still say hymns are spiritual because THEY GLORIFY GOD. The same goes for contemporary Christian music (CCM). After praise/worship music, CCM is what I listen to most. Artists like Carman, Mylon and Broken Heart, Amy Grant, Crumbacher, Idle Cure, Alter Boys, etc. Now, I am fairly young. I am 24. So I am sure this explains my interest in CCM. But I don't foofoo 16th church music, either. Someone here at work mentioned to me one time that CCM does not have a place in the Christian Church; proper church music is hymns and classical selections because it has stood the test of time and is not provocative (that's subjective). To that kind of statement I wonder what church members were saying when this "good Christian music" was contemporary. I mean, 16th century hymns were contemporary in the 16th century. I guess what I am really saying is, music that glorifies God and Jesus Christ is Christian music. It just comes in many varieties. God Bless,