Did you know that christian music is not what it appears?
536206
what can you tell me about them? this is news to me.
64602
I don't know what a concert prayer is, but I don't see a problem with electric guitars in church.  We have one, two acoustic guitars, two keyboards, a piano, percussion, a viola, and a cello.  The Bible says, "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord."  It doesn't specify that electric guitars are not to be used.  Pianos weren't around in Bible times either, but we still use them.  There's nothing "evil" about music until you make it "evil" with lyrics or whatnot.  Any music offered to God as a true act of worship is pleasing to Him.
248719
I don't. In fact, I find it cool. It's totally inspiring that Christian bands are penetrating the mainstream music scene. It's one way of spreading Jesus.
1090032
Yes. Some people believe that when someone openly says they are a Christian, it means you are judgemental of those who aren't.
52917
Not really, but these are interesting songs... Probably not exactly what you're looking for.
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:}\n1. The music is evangelical and draws from other groups into christian circles\n2. The music is contemporary and allows an alternative to secular music and stabilizes the christian groups\n3.  It renders Christian social groups more mainstream\n4.  It may in the long run reduce the "set apart" separation from secular activities that helped protect Christians from worldly influence.
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Excuse me EverGreen, but "if it ain't rap, it ain't music"!!!!\nI can just imagine what kind of CRAP you listen to.
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If the Christians are right, Satan wants to make people suffer.  I don't know about you all, but the best way to make me suffer is to have a rap "song" played over and over again.    \n\n**soapbox**\n\nI have pulled away from mainstream music because I swear that everything is all "urban" now.  I think rap and urban sounds are "n*ggerriffic" the way I think country music is the anthem of the "white trash paradise."
1145814
No, but I've heard "Reptile" by the Church. Good band.
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That is exactly why I don't listen to mainstream music. I'm in highschool, and it really ticks me off when i hear kids blasting degreating crap from cd players, cars, ipods, etc. I think it's really sad that those songs make billboard, and get awards. They are apart of the giant drop in society. If you think it's funny to hear those types of lyrics, you're sick. I know what you mean totally. And i'm not just saying this because I was brainwashed by parents, church, school. I am a non-christian, freespirited, girl with hippie parents who don't force me to not listen to stuff like that. It's totally my opinion.  I wish someone would start a boycott or something. Thanks for posting this question!
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Doesn't that description sound amazingly like Christianity?\n\nBy the way that is a statement not a question.
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Very simple answer. And it has nothing to do with it being a Christian band.  Well... Almost nothing.\n\nSee, the whole point of Christian music is to spread a message.  The message is the foremost thing they work on.  \n\nThe music itself is secondary.  And whenever you create a song with an agenda, your sound is never going to live up to that agenda.
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Actually yes they are a christian band. \n\nBio if you want to read it, http://music.yahoo.com/ar-300485-bio--Norma-Jean
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http://www.christianmusicnews.net/bands.html\nthat has a bunch of Christian bands, not all rock though..
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Err... Christian Band?  I have to say my favorite is Phillips Craig and Dean, an "older" Contemp Christian Band.  Personally I have a personal thing against Christian Rock or Christian Rap.  I just dont really see it as worship when you have a guy on stage head banging, covered in long hair and tatoos, holding up the evil fingers and singing "Oh how I love Jesus".  You go to a "Soulstock" and all the kids there (who are usually between 12-16) bouncing around, screaming and shouting, just as high and drunk as they would be at the Metallica concert!  What levels dare we stoop to just to be accepted?!  \nBut what really just grind my gears is how the Christian music scene can put out music they claim as Christian when it really has nothing at all to do with God, Christ or his message.  One particular song I remember inparticular was a song with the lyrics "You are a Godsend" over and over and OVER AGAIN, it was a REALLY cruddy song, talking about an unmarried guy having "relations" with his girl.  I mean I REALLY dont have no SUPER conventions about that particularly but C'MON!!  I mean I go into a Christian Music store and there are "christian" CD's by big name Rap, Rock and Country artists?  It might not be the heavy stuff you'll find in the Metal section, but its still really not any good.  I say be hot or cold, bad or good, heavy or light, dont pussy around somewhere in the middle.
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No, but it's not a particularly imaginative genre, either.  While I'm blissfully ignorant of the current scene, the trend of "MOR" (middle of the road) acts that actually got play in the 80's and 90'on Christian Radio stations was to be musical milquetoast and about 5 years in arears of current forms.  Petra may have listened to Sting's albums, but they did precious little to become truly musically adventurous.  Add to that a general laziness of lyric writing, where long, a-rhytmic passages of theology are ripped from a King James Bible and shoehorned into a 4/4 backbeat.  There were exceptions, of course, but precious few.  Also add to that a theological content in the lyrics that's explicitly aimed at adolescents, and Christian Rock becomes something to grow out of(when I was a child, I listened to Christian Rock, but now that I have grown, I have set aside those childish things).  I refuse to "graduate" to the Gaiters or others of such ilk.
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if they are Christian, then they don't