Thrashy Christian music

Taken from “THE KIND OF MUSIC THAT HONOURS GOD-IV”

Much modern religious music is man-centered.
it is experience-oriented.

Popular texts also demonstrate the pervading influence of existentialism. The expression of the feeling of the moment, the emphasis on physical sensation, and even the deliberate incompleteness of the songs with their predictable ‘fade out’ endings carry us into a physical and emotional euphoria that is not anchored on Scriptural principle and doctrine (Dwight Gustafson, “Should Sacred Music Swing?”, Faith For the Family, January/February, 1975,p.5).

Sunday school pupils have often blared out the little ditty:

O, I feel so good, I feel brand new,
O, I wonder if you feel so too.

Contrast this with the great hymn by Bernard:
Jesus, the very thought of Thee
With sweetness fills my breast,
But sweeter far Thy face to see
And in thy presence rest.

Not only the words, but the “beat” of many modern songs tend to draw attention away from the Lord and to the “performer.” Professing Christian entertainers copy the mannerisms of their secular counterparts, swinging, swaying, hollering into microphones, and generally presenting themselves as cheap imitations if the godless “artists.”


Lovingly in the Lord