True Christian Music is inspired by the Holy Spirit

well thank you for that enlightenment.

 

Please give your definition of "inspired", because if you are equating "What a Friend we have in Jesus" with scripture which is inspired, I'll have to disagree with you.

BTW, I like that song too.

OTOH, I've heard many CCM songs that touch my spirit, and I believe God led them to write the song. "In me" or "Who am I" By Casting Crowns, are jsut a couple.

 

But if "True Christian music" is inspired by the Holy Spirit, and if scripture is inspired by the Holy Spirit, and if you are not equating the two, the you must be using two different definitions of 'inspired'. So, what are your two different definitions of 'inspired'?

It would help me if you would give me a list of the songs that I can listen to and a list of the songs that I should avoid.

 

and also maybe clarify which bands are within the CCM movement? i dont know at all who is in there...

 

(bolding is mine)

So, are you saying that 100% of CCM music is fleshly music and therefore devoid of the Spirit, and 100% of the artists are not born again?

Sure hope not,

Mike

 

But no one on your side has ever been able to show that the rhythms and tunes (in themselves)are necessarily antithetical to "reverence". That is just an assertion based on personal association. You're here just in time to see your leading man, Aaron go through the rounds again trying to prove his point.

 

Not that I'm any big defender of CCM, but what's wrong with having tunes and rhythyms similar to pop/rock music, especially since CCM is pop/rock music.

Now Playing: Bruce Hornsby – “Hothouse”

 

True Christian music should be "inspired" by the fellowship that we have with God and be based on the truth of God's Word.

 

Excuse me...
Have you listened to CCM?
Do you know what CCM is anyway?
How are you comparing CCM with "pagan revelry" and calling it "tawdry"?

My friend, there is as many writers of CCM that have experienced the cross as there are hymn writers.

To lump all CCM artists into an ungodly category is just not right.

How do you know their hearts? Are you God?
For every one CCM artist you can prove that does not glorify God by their songs, I can name two that does.

I'll go first: "Casting Crowns", and "Ray Boltz"

Find something wrong with their songs, go ahead I dare you.

 

procyon,

Could you please share with us the scriptures that tell us which "rhythms" and "tunes" are the acceptable ones for christian music and which ones are unacceptable?

Thanks,

Mike

 

A couple of problems with this.

The first is that you won't give us an example of these "tawdry" songs or tell us which of these artists you're having a problem with, which leads me to believe that you just read one of these idiotic websites that Aaron is always quoting, rather than examining the music for yourself.

The second is that you claim that these mystery artists have no "experience of the cross", but you ignore the many artists who's lyrics are straight forwardly and overtly scriptural in nature.

The third is that you say that they love the world, but you ignore that many of these people are working full time jobs to support their ministries. It wasn't until very recently in the history of CCM that the most successful artists had the option of giving themselves to it full time.

Whiteheart was one of the biggest bands of the 80's-mid 90's. Even at the height of their popularity, their members had to keep day jobs and play on the weekends.

There's plenty about CCM to criticize, but let's criticize it fairly.

((By the way, you still haven't answered my questions))

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I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for Procyon to answer your questions. I have visited many threads that he has started, and in every one of them that I've visited, there are valid questions that are asked of him, but never answered.

Procyon, you should understand that if you continue down this path of making ridiculous claims and never answering valid questions about those claims, you're going to start being thought of as little more than a troll.

 

I'm sure. It's been my experience dealing with these folks here and on various other message boards is that when they're challenged, one of two things will happen:

Either they'll make all sorts of personal attacks or they'll cite irrelevant verses of scripture out of context (or, in Aaron's case, both).

"Going to"?

Now Playing: The Caroline Movement – “West By God”

 

You mean like saying that you have "no experience of the cross" or that you "lack devotion to the Lord Jesus Christ"?

You raised a legitimate question and a legitimate concern. The problem is that you did it in such a way as to needlessly attack brothers and sisters in Christ and in a way that is more rumor mongering that Christ honoring.

You make accusations against others, but you refuse to back them up.

You expect that we take your word for it, but you refuse to answer our questions.

It's difficult to take you seriously when you behave that way.

The problem here is that you won't tell us how you determine what music is "inspired by the Holy Spirit" or what constitutes a "spiritual song".

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