During my drive yesterday to Wal-Mart headquarters, I was radio channel surfing and came across a station called Grace Broadcasting. The song playing was called, "The Dark Side of Grace". It was about people who had yet to discover the grace of the Father in Heaven as they were living on the "Dark Side of Grace". When the announcer came on he said that the station was a Country Christian station.
Most country songs over the years have been about drinking, cussing, sleeping with someone else's wife, and the list goes on. My parents called this this "The Devil's Music".
I listened to every song until I was out of range and then thought about the music of my youth. I grew up during the Beatles, acid rock, and heavy metal era of music. Being in a band singing vocals made it hard to take when people called our music, "The Devil's Music".
Then came Larry Norman, the father of Christian Rock music and gave us the introduction to our contemporary Christian music of today. Listen to a few of his songs and you will see how we have developed over the years to our contemporaneity Christian music of today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWh8-FPelHU&feature=related
So hearing Christian Country music is taking some music that may be distasteful to some and making a praise to the Lord. Never underestimate what can happen when someone says your music is "The Devil's Music" because it is just an opportunity to take the beat of the music and give praise to the Lord.
p.s. our band played ol' time rock and roll on Saturday and the entire band was in church on Sunday, singing the hymns but knowing there was a new music style coming. Thanks Larry Norman!
