Never heard Staub before but i interpret his writing and thinking does not take into consideration that there are different styles and creativities in how God's children singing/talking/praising to the God Almighty.

To identify a few. There are Praise & Worship that communicate revere in His presence. There are Hymns that communicate deep doctrines and the knowledge of Him. And there are music that helps us to communicates our soul with God while we are surrounded with the ungodly where we see no place to fall prostrate and while our understanding of His doctrines is thinning out. That music gently lift us up and can bringing us back to His footstep, closer if not. And MeryMe and others alike do so so long as God's inspires them.

Must all lyrics mention the name of Jesus? Must David in all his psalms mention the name of the Yahweh? Or maintain a statistics of how many percent His name is mentioned.

And what about those publicists? Publicist are publicist is their job. I hope those God-inspired artists do not turn into publicists. In Christian music industry I do not believe anybody can expect all employees that make the industry are commited Christian (what ever that entails). I do not see enough worth of critics what the publicist has done from Staub's writing, or the money generated or the scope of secular listeners that the godly music be heard.

The majority of secular radio stations are full of course secular music that are not fitting for the Christian souls. So, a little bit of godly music from the Christian, i am sure, benefit those listener's souls.

Or maybe i miss everything that Staub said.

Posted by: Gale at May 3, 2006 07:32 AM

Replying to Gale's comment:

Just a clarification, the person who wrote the article is actually Lou Carlozo, a guest on Staub's blog.

On to the point...

What Carlozo is arguing is that most of the music in the CCM industry is carrying more of an agenda than the intent of worshipping God.

"And what about those publicists? Publicist are publicist is their job. I hope those God-inspired artists do not turn into publicists."

Though I somewhat agree with you here, what Carlozo is saying is that the publicists try and use his faith to market their product. Is this what Christians are supposed to do? Why not just market it as good music? Carlozo is making the point that most of the CCM music out there isn't very good "art", but rather music with an agenda.

"The majority of secular radio stations are full of course secular music that are not fitting for the Christian souls. So, a little bit of godly music from the Christian, i am sure, benefit those listener's souls."

I completely disagree with you about this. The amount of "secular" music I listen to is not going to make me reject my Savior. Carlozo mentioned a band called Pedro the Lion. They are not in the Christian industry, but does that mean their music cannot inspire help me worship God? Is it impossible for me to find meaning that points toward God in a Coldplay or Sufjan Stevens song because they're not "CCM artists"?

Posted by: Julia at May 3, 2006 05:11 PM

people say that they only listen to their music for the beat. even so if that is your reason, you still get the words in your head. i mean... how many songs that you have listened to like a million times that u dont know the words too? none. there are a lot of christian artists that have the beat but positive words. like my favorite artists are superchick and lecrae. you can really rockout to them. i know i do. i love the bands. so... you dont need to listen to secular music to have the awesome beat. thats why i dint listen to anty thing except non-secular music.

Posted by: Sam at August 24, 2006 07:10 AM