I spent two hours with a man who was doing some work for us. As we talked, he shared his story with me. He grew up attending church with his family. The church had a band. As a young teen he learned to play the electric bass for the church band and along with that to love contemporary Christian music. A high school buddy had a small rock band and invited him to join. He told him that his dad wouldn’t agree to it. His friend suggested he lie about it, which he did. He ended up playing with the group for ten years, loving the music and the culture that went with it. He is covered with tattoos and had large plugs/gauges in his ear lobes. He now regrets all of that and is in the costly process of removing them. “Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD” (Leviticus 19:28).

Contemporary Christian music is, in general, a bridge to the world’s music and the life that goes with it. What the world’s music and its stars promote is easily embraced.

“But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy” (1 Peter 1:15-16).