A Golf Clap for Christian Culture
Posted by: Stuart in Blogroll, Christianity, Jesus, Uncategorized, dove awards, general, life, music, people, religion, youth, youth ministry
Ah, the Dove awards. Wow, let me congratulate you artists for winning awards in a genre so niche that you couldn’t compete in the mainstream against real, respected musicians. Aren’t there any artists who follow Christ and can be mainstream? Is that too hard to ask?
And don’t’ get me started. Best rock song: Everything Glorious by The David Crowder Band!?! I love Crowder, but rock he is not. What a joke. The Dove Awards only goes to show you that the Christian way to fight culture is to make a culture of your own, only just less original and less talented. And by being a bad carbon copy of culture, minus the swear words, doesn’t make us different. It makes us cheesy.
So we’ve achieved being more like Wayne Newton than Jesus. Bravo to those of you who spent your hard earned cash to buy a WWJD bracelet or anything by Jeremy Camp. Let me applaud you for running the baseball diamond with Rick Warren or giving Kirk Cameron more than his five minutes of fame (really who can I thank for this!).
Why can’t we just be about doing the work of Christ on this earth, to make it a better place, to love, and to save the lost. Why do we need our own bookstores piled with idiotically trite bumper stickers and crap paintings of anything by Thomas Kincaid? Is this Christian walk? Hardly. But is this what the world sees? Absolutely. So why would anyone who’s not a believer ever want to believe if this is the lifestyle that we show them. What do they have to believe in?
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I wish I knew how you really felt.
Ha ha. Would you rather you have me be silent?
no, I agree for the most part. I do enjoy a lot of Christian music. But remember what Mike told us about what he saw in Nashville. Kind of made me leery of Christian artists.
Don’t be shy, speak up
Thankfully coming from the UK I’ve never heard of Jeremy Camp or Kirk Cameron. But it sounds like I should avoid them. Hope they don’t have passports 
Thanks Stewbumb,
I have long felt the same way. Even the term “Dove Awards” is ridiculous! It completely embodies the vomitatious <— no that is not a word :0) bubble gum, nothing bad happens, stepford wives, Spirit 105.3, Martha Hadley separatism. I wonder what God thinks when he looks down on the great Christian sub-culture marketing machine. Wait! Did you feel that Stewart? I think it is raining, and is that guy over there building a boat?!!
By the way Stewart, I love it when you are angry. :0)
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do other religions have their own awards show?
Ha ha ha. That’s so true!
Wow! What a rant! I think there are artists out there that are Christians and engaging the culture who may never win a “Dove Award” or be termed “Christian music”. There is a place for edification and there is a place for evangelism. Some have one gift and some another. Whatever God gives them to exercise, that they must do to the glory of God. So I do appreciate those with the gift of edification of believers (Jeremy Camp),and I also appreciate those who engage the culture in evangelism(POD). The marketing and awarding is another matter and that’s where the rub is for me.
By the way would you show Nathan how he should spell your name properly, Stewart.
Well I’m extending young Cookson grace as to the spelling of my name.
I keep screwing your name up. Stuart please forgive me. I had a close friend with the other spelling and I think it is habit. Oh, and I did it again in my last post. But I will not fall prey to such debauchery again.
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