It may very well be the name of a band, but I meant the psychological effectIs that a music band, or is it the process of releasing and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions?
How about the original chants of the Church?In the modern context of contemporary Christian music, our mainstream listening consists of bland lyrics that just emphasize God's love for us, using broad terms & never being controversial.
But is that how it should be?
I was at my college's Christian Campus House worship with a local Episcopalian priest. The band was playing some of the usual sort of songs, and he mentioned, "You know, I've always wondered if Christian music shouldn't be so vanilla. Sometimes it's good like this, but sometimes I think we need to be challenged, using more incriminating words to get us to live better."
The usual mantra "Jesus loves me, I love Jesus, all is cool" is fine; I'm not debating declaring our love for the Son of God, not at all! But shouldn't there be more?
Take, for example, the song that many historians consider the first Christian rock song, "After Forever", with the opening lines, "Have you ever thought about your soul can it be saved?
Or perhaps you think that when you're dead you just stay in your grave"
Or another one by the same band, "Lord of this World":
"Your world was made for you by someone above
But you chose evil ways instead of love
You made me master of the world where you exist
The soul I took from you was not even missed yeah"
Is it fine for all mainstream Christian music to be vanilla? Or should we be humbled that it takes a band called Black Sabbath to teach us how to write Christian songs?
(Side note: When looking at the lyrics of Black Sabbath songs that sing about Satan, notice that it's all singing about the despair of life for the devil; Ozzy calls out "Oh, God, help me!" in Black Sabbath after singing about where he's going with Satan at the wheel.) (And here's another discussion that goes into more detail of Sabbath specifically: secular artists releasing Christian music)
Important: I am not debating Black Sabbath in particular, I'm only using them as an example for the broader topic of edgier lyrics in Christian songs. You may reference Sabbath, but do not derail this thread from a discussion on Christian lyrics to a discussion on 1 band.
May God bless us all!
Yes, that's right. A good example of that, intense, in post #25, an actual battle in her between light and dark, between Love and the path to death, very literally too.Is that a the name of a music band, or is it the process of releasing and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions?
It may very well be the name of a band, but I meant the psychological effect
Kathartik is better...
In the modern context of contemporary Christian music, our mainstream listening consists of bland lyrics that just emphasize God's love for us, using broad terms & never being controversial.
But is that how it should be?
I was at my college's Christian Campus House worship with a local Episcopalian priest. The band was playing some of the usual sort of songs, and he mentioned, "You know, I've always wondered if Christian music shouldn't be so vanilla. Sometimes it's good like this, but sometimes I think we need to be challenged, using more incriminating words to get us to live better."
The usual mantra "Jesus loves me, I love Jesus, all is cool" is fine; I'm not debating declaring our love for the Son of God, not at all! But shouldn't there be more?
Take, for example, the song that many historians consider the first Christian rock song, "After Forever", with the opening lines, "Have you ever thought about your soul can it be saved?
Or perhaps you think that when you're dead you just stay in your grave"
Or another one by the same band, "Lord of this World":
"Your world was made for you by someone above
But you chose evil ways instead of love
You made me master of the world where you exist
The soul I took from you was not even missed yeah"
Is it fine for all mainstream Christian music to be vanilla? Or should we be humbled that it takes a band called Black Sabbath to teach us how to write Christian songs?
(Side note: When looking at the lyrics of Black Sabbath songs that sing about Satan, notice that it's all singing about the despair of life for the devil; Ozzy calls out "Oh, God, help me!" in Black Sabbath after singing about where he's going with Satan at the wheel.) (And here's another discussion that goes into more detail of Sabbath specifically: secular artists releasing Christian music)
Important: I am not debating Black Sabbath in particular, I'm only using them as an example for the broader topic of edgier lyrics in Christian songs. You may reference Sabbath, but do not derail this thread from a discussion on Christian lyrics to a discussion on 1 band.
May God bless us all!
This!!A mistake all too many churches make is to claim to be multicultural, while really being unicultural in worship style - including music. Bring in some world rhythms and sounds.
Not really - although I appreciate the style.By sounding like this: