The song, "Heaven Let Your Light Shine Down", Is that meant to be a Christian Song?
I just heard it on the radio. Its a very cool song.
I just heard it on the radio. Its a very cool song.
People who ask if a secular band or song is Christian because it has words like "God" or "Heaven" or other religious related words always make me a mixture of amused and annoyed. As if somehow that will make a song or band better if they are talking about Christianity and faith.
The song, "Heaven Let Your Light Shine Down", Is that meant to be a Christian Song?
I just heard it on the radio. Its a very cool song.
I really like Collective Soul--but they are not a Christian band. Though the name of the band may indicate a spiritual basis, they are clearly alternative rock which carries a lot of spiritual themes into their music. The same assumption could be made about Creed. The other day I was listening to 'The Faceless Man' and reazied that it was quoting/paraphrasing scripture.
Generally, the phrase "Christian band" is a superficial marketing device, even though churches that heavily promote them don't see them that way. They belong to a 'Christian' music label like Word (or did at one time, for those few artists that moved to mainstream labels like Atlantic or Arista) or labels that may not be explicitly Christian but have the reputation of being so, like Tooth & Nail. The subject matter usually is packed with passive spiritual references and praise, or can deal with more struggle-based issues, but almost always with an obsessively-positive outlook rather than a realistic one, and often mostly with topics that appeal to the Evangelical or Fundamentalist crowd. A lot of that sort of music (along with Praise & Worship, which tends to seem predominantly concerned with meeting a certain quota of saying 'Jesus' per minute) often gets criticized for having exceedingly shallow theology, on top of how extremely derivative of the mainstream Top 40 the musical aspects of them seem to be.So, What is "A Christian Band"? Is it a Band made up of Christians? or a Band that only sings songs designed to proseletize? Can a "Christian Band" play songs that aren't "Christian" if the lyrics have special meaning to the band? Can a "Non-Christian Band" write a song that, without intending it, expresses God's Love so perfectly, that we have to take notice, and applaude them for it? I love it when that happens.
There is a lot of stupid music out there. With no meat no nutrition to the soul. But I saw something in these guys wether they meant it or not realizing what there're heart was calling forwardThe song, "Heaven Let Your Light Shine Down", Is that meant to be a Christian Song?
I just heard it on the radio. Its a very cool song.