I'm wondering, if there is a music artist out there who can have wonderful talent but have some songs here and there that are not of God, do you quit listening to the artist (i.e. throw the baby out with the bathwater) or do you cherry-pick the songs that are spiritually neutral?
I have several secular artists whose music I would not miss if I ditched all their CDs (I've already done a lot already). But this one artist left among my CDs, I'm having a hard time letting go of. His name is Gordon Lightfoot. Some of his songs do revolve around drunkenness, and a couple songs about affairs and one-night stands are interspersed among them, but I always skip over them. It bums me because he is an extraordinary artist otherwise, IMHO. This is one hurdle I haven't quite overcome.
With other artists, I have little to no problem quitting listening to them period, if some of their songs are not of God. I just wish I didn't wrestle with this one so much.
I have several secular artists whose music I would not miss if I ditched all their CDs (I've already done a lot already). But this one artist left among my CDs, I'm having a hard time letting go of. His name is Gordon Lightfoot. Some of his songs do revolve around drunkenness, and a couple songs about affairs and one-night stands are interspersed among them, but I always skip over them. It bums me because he is an extraordinary artist otherwise, IMHO. This is one hurdle I haven't quite overcome.
With other artists, I have little to no problem quitting listening to them period, if some of their songs are not of God. I just wish I didn't wrestle with this one so much.