What is Christian music anyway?

In order to have a Christian music blog, we first need to look at an essential question: what is Christian music?

If you stay around the industry for any period of time, you’ll find that there’s a lot of varied opinions of what this music is and what it entails and doesn’t entail. However, here’s my opinion, and maybe it will help you.

Christian music, essentially, is music from a Christian perspective. An important part of it is that bands should be comprised mostly of Christian members and live that out in their lives.

Now, for an important question, does their music have to explicitly mention their Christian faith all of the time? The answer in my mind is no, but there’s a fine line so follow along. First off, every song they write does not have to be praising God or directed to Him or necessarily mention Him. Some bands may think it great to mention the name of Jesus in every song, and I definitely wouldn’t stop that. However, what is more important is music from a Christian perspective. Is there a hope to lean onto in hard times? Should relationships be “hook-ups” or should they involve something more based on respect and a true, self-giving love? How can we get through hard times? Should we spend our time on pleasures of the world that only fade away? The list goes on and on. Most importantly, do the songs reflect the truth? All good things point to God, and Christian music has this goal; though it does not need to say the name of God every five seconds, it is based in Him and shows true joy.

Next we move onto what Christian music should be musically. When many people picture Christian music, they either picture gospel choirs or church music or large CCM groups. However, there’s Christian rock, hip-hop, metal, alternative, pop, country, techno, hardcore, screamo, and much more!

However, as I said in the beginning, there’s no one way to define Christian music because there are so many differing opinions in the world. If you have comments, PLEASE post them under the comments section (this applies to any post I put up on here, whether it's compliments, questions, criticism, etc.), since I’ll definitely write more on the topic later on. Until then, have a great time!