PSoTD

I can relate, I have heard this song numerous times while driving kids home from sports practice.

Couldn't stop myself. Have fun!

Yup, the Strawberry Alarm Clock.

Where some see contemporary Christian music as evil.

There is a great evil within many modern churches today in the music they actively promote.

That this is a new development can easily be identified by looking back even 50 years ago, where we find the majority of churches still singing out of hymnals to the accompaniment of piano and organ. Today, however, they have traded in their instruments for a base guitar and drums, and now sing and sway to so-called praise songs somehow projected on the wall behind performers they call worship leaders.

This is part of what is now called contemporary Christian music, and is called such because it is a break from the past. Traditional Christian music is no longer in style — it’s too old and stale, like a moldy piece of bread, to suit their tastes. Instead of what stirs the soul, this music clamors for what gratifies the flesh. Instead of heartfelt conviction, these churches demand that which will soothe their guilty consciences.

Now, that this is evil is without a doubt to those who are thinking individuals. Though its proponents parrot old arguments, they only further the observation that they are addicted to a herd mentality, oblivious to the cliff that lies before them. It is all too telling that they cannot find scriptural authority for their preferences.

Although I could offer several biblical reasons against contemporary Christian music (CCM), only two issues need be honestly considered by Christianity at large today: dishonesty and compromise. Forget about the issue of rebellion, the secret motivations of those who want to do their own thing and break from the past. And we can forget about those who serve as their predecessors, who also broke free of their own pasts, such as Lucifer, Adam and Eve, as well as Cain, the first murderer. We will not even consider their contempt for Bible doctrine and their assertion that there is only one that is important, all the rest being optional.