Why is christian music gay for jesus

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For 15 years, Trey Pearson has been the lead singer of Everyday Sunday, a popular Christian rock band that has sold about 250,000 records, toured the U.S. and the world, and scored the top Christian rock hit of 2007. On Tuesday, he announced that he is homosexual. "I have tried not to be gay for more than 20 years of my life," the 35-year-old told his fans in a letter. "I've tried my whole life to be straight. I married a girl, and I even hold two beautiful petty kids," he wrote, explaining that his wife is now a good ally, and "if I keep trying to push this down it will cease up hurting her even more."

Coming out as gay may be career suicide for Pearson, notes Jonathan Merritt at Religion News Service. Several Christian artists have revealed themselves to be queer or lesbian in the past scant years, he says, and "these musicians paid a hefty price. Since Christian music fans care for to be conservative and believe that homosexual acts are sinful, you won't hear these artists' music played in most churches or on Christian radio these days." Pearson hopes that his fans will stick with him, and that he can be a role model for other gay Christi

Is Lauren Daigle’s Music and Message Honoring To Jesus?

Not too long ago a member of the church I pastor, Vanguard Church in Colorado Springs, asked me a question, she said, my daughter wanted me to ask you, “Why do you detest Lauren Daigle?” Of course, that question is love asking, “When are you going to stop beating your wife?” The decision of guilt has already been drawn and now the question was simply, it seemed, just pursuing to find out why I hated her.

First off, as a follower of Jesus Christ, we are never given permission by Jesus to hate anyone. Jesus tells us just the opposite in the Sermon on The Mount:

Matthew 5:44 But I speak unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do fine to them that dislike you, and pray for them which despitefully exploit you, and persecute you.

God is never okay with us hating anyone, even our enemies. He wants us to bless them, do good to them, and pray for them. With that said, I can’t fully answer the question because it has a faulty premise. I don’t hate anyone, even the man who drove drunk and killed my mom thirty-two years ago, I pray for him. I pray for his soul. As a pastor, I have had people over the years who have

The accessibility of Christian artists in culture has changed over the past decade. Ten years ago, the Christians who were succeeding in secular culture were widely sellouts. Bands appreciate Jars Of Clay and Audio Adrenaline were among the first Christians to pump some Jesus into mainstream MTV watching tradition. When I was a young youth group attendee, I saw the video for Jars Of Clay’s “Flood” on MTV and officially declared myself a hater of the tune channel as well as contemporary Christian music, or “CCM” as anyone in Nashville will tell you it is called.

The reason for my anger wasn’t so much that there were Christians on MTV. My anger existed because the Christians on the radio and MTV were just crappy facsimiles of what was already there. In my mind, Christians who tried to chant like Eddie Vedder were even less cool than the pagans who did.

I made a promise to myself in middle educational facility that I would be cool but wouldn’t undertake drugs[1] and this was my way of living in culture but not of it. It also meant that I would aim to be better than everyone on MTV. I thought this was a new idea at the time, but a collective of older kids was beating me to the punch.

To secular circles, Sufjan St

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Leah Payne often hears the same scrutinize about modern worship music: “Have worship concerts just change into rock shows?” In her new novel, God Gave Rock and Roll to You: A History of Contemporary Christian Music, Payne reframes that question. “I wanted to flip that around and say, ‘No. The original rock ‘n’ roll show was actually a revival meeting,’” Payne said in an interview with Sojourners.

Contemporary Christian Music is technically distinct from praise and worship melody, though the categories exist and intermingle in the identical evangelical continuum. Using her expertise as a scholar of American religious history and a 2023-2024 Public Fellow at the Public Religion Research Institute, Payne details the creation, proliferation, and decline of CCM, tracing the industry’s bond with conservative evangelical Christianity.

“The question that guides this guide is: What can one learn about the development of evangelicalism by looking at CCM, one of the largest, most profitable forms of mass media produced in the twentieth century?” Payne writes in her introduction. 

God Gave Rock and Roll to You begins over a century ago amid tent meetings, Christian songbook publishers, and