I can’t believe music month at Stuff Christians Like is drawing to a close already. I’ll announce a new theme next week but in the meantime I wanted to make sure you saw these great music flavored ideas readers submitted:
Matt
Gotta love the Christian concert guest speakers. They are usually very good and some of them very funny, but you are nearly guaranteed to always hear two things: 1) If the audience doesn’t quiet down and let them talk, the main band won’t come out and play; 2) The invitation usually includes the words “every head bowed and every eye closed.”
Miss Hannah
Parents of the youth arguing over whether or not it’s okay to have Christian screamo band concerts at the church, even though it’s a great outreach to unsaved kids in the community who like that kind of music, because they a) don’t want their kids to hang out with kids who are swearing and smoking in the church parking lot and b) can’t tell if the band is “really Christian” because “they all have that long hair and those tattoos, and you can never understand a word they say.”
RhondaDixon
What about the dilemma of the Christian girl (or guy I suppose) about whether it’s OK to find a Christian musician, dare I say it, ‘hot.’ Is that acceptable? Does singing words straight out of Psalms disable the ability for them to be eye candy?
Christy
I was at a community parade in August when I noticed a float for a local church.
They had a flat-bed trailer with their praise team and band on it. Get this: They were singing a fully harmonized version of Toto’s “Rosanna”, except they had changed the lyrics to “Hosanna”.
I laughed so incredibly hard that you can hear it on the video. I may have to put that on YouTube after all!
Gary Durbin
CHURCH CAMP MOMENT:
When I was in high school, we went to a camp one year where the speaker focused on music pretty much the whole week. “Friends in Low Places” just came out, and country was the rage, with hit’s such as “Bootin, Scootin, Boogey”. He made references like, “Barf Brooks”. Everybody, except me, made a “decision” to stop listening to secular music. I was getting a lot of pressure to join the union, being I was a power player, being I was the Music Director’s kid. After camp, everybody, but me, gathered in the church parking lot and smashed their secular compact discs. Two months later, you guessed it, they were purchasing them again. I’m not sure what the lesson is here. Don’t smash your CD’s in haste?
Mike
The opening act that doesn’t know they’re opening for a Christian concert… and swears.
ykattack
I’ve learned any song becomes infinitely more powerful by simply tagging a dozen or so choruses of “Awesome God” onto the end.
Jen from CO
What about the fact it looks like the Newsboys are destined to become the CCM equivalent of the Rolling Stones (oh yes, I went there)? I mean, how cool were they in the early 90s? How did they figure out how to still be cool today? How long will it be until they start calling themselves the Newsmen? Why is it no CCM song can ever compare to the greatness that is “Shine”?
