I must confess. I
don’t like much of Christian music, especially Christian music in the vein of
“worship music.” My main critique of
Christian music has been its often shallow and un-insightful lyrics. While most of us spent our adolescent years
trying to convince our parents that we paid no attention to the lyrics of the
music we listened to, I scrupulously examined each cassette and CD jacket I
purchased or borrowed. I would spend
hours listening to music, parsing every phrase seeking to understand the
artist’s feelings, thoughts and beliefs.
I did this for secular and Christian music alike. Most of the time, but admittedly not all of
the time, the Christian music I encountered required barely more than a flimsy
plastic shovel to unearth the pithy Christian clichés which are devoid of any
real and sustaining meaning. I mean no
offense to you if Christian music from the 1990’s was a great means of grace
for you, but for me, it almost poisoned me against the church.
