June 1, 2006
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Here are three interesting quotes from the awesome Michael Card, one of my favorite musicians of all time. One of the things I so appreciate about Michael is how deep he is, both in his lyrics and his thought process. I’ve met him once in person, but it would be awesome to sit down with him for an extended period some time and listen to him teach or discuss spiritual things with him.
And so what does our friend Michael have to say? Read on …
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“The lyrics of a good number of the songs don’t
betray anything specifically Christian – they may have some moral message, but
not a lot of the big songs are identifiably Christian. . . ‘What happens to the
message when we start getting the music to as many people as possible?’ There
is an essential part of the gospel that’s not ever going to sell. The gospel is
good news, but it is also bad news: ‘You are a sinner, and you are hopeless.’
How is a multimillion-dollar record company going to take that? That’s a part
of the message, too, and if that’s taken out – and it frequently is in
Christian music – it ceases to be the gospel.” (Christianity Today, May 20, 1996)·
“The direction and value system are getting worse
faster than any of us can imagine.” (Christianity
Today, May 20, 1996) [SpiderDad's note: Remember that he said this 10 years ago!]·
“Now, the industry is celebrity-driven. The song
is almost irrelevant. The focus is on the PERSON, and songs have become
disposable.” (Christianity Today, May 20, 1996)————–
So what do you think?
Comments (3)
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~mandy
Those are some great quotes, and I agree with them, especially the first one.
Saw your girls at the grad party Sunday. It’s nice to see how close they are to each other. “Lurlene” and I have close sister moments, too.
haha at first i’m like “fat and sit around smoking cigars” WHAT??!!!! then it graduately hit me
you know how it is when you are an overweight bum you live in a dream world where you think you are a slim decent looking 20 year old girl! 
I’m working at Eberly college on campus here interesting enough for the dean of eberly college!! so I get to meet all these high up ppl who could be beneficial to me later in life
ahhh the power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!