"There are some people God has called to evangelism,
and they're doing a wonderful job, having results.
That's great. ... God wanted us to do something else.
So we got into the area of challenging people, and our
ministry basically happens offstage one-on-one when we
talk with people. It's very subtle, but God's doing a
work! It's entertainment, it's fun, its a concert--it
s all those things--but at a subtle, deeper level, it
touches people's hearts" (TERRY TAYLOR OF THE DANIEL
AMOS BAND, cited by Dan and Steve Peters, What about
Christian Rock, p. 109).

"I love to hear the music playing slow or fast ... Don't
stop, don't stop the music, play it in your own way. . .
. I hear dissenting voices quick to disagree. But I'm on
a music mission; they don't bother me. I'll sing those songs
that set me free. Cause kids want to rock" (ED DEGARMO AND
DANA KEY, "Don't Stop the Music ," Streetlight, Benson
Publications, 1986, p. 24). "You now have songs about pain
and death and divorce and sex and relationships and
everything that every one of us goes through, whereas at
one time contemporary Christian music only talked about
the death and resurrection of Christ. We're much more in
touch with ourselves and our neighbors, which is the whole
idea behind Christ in the first place" (MELISSA HELM OF
MYRRH RECORDS, Music Line magazine, June 1986, p. 4).

In Greebville Seminary Conference on Worship Taylors of
South Carolina said "last thirty years or so have seen
the most dramatic and speedy changes in Protestant worship
in any time since the Reformation. Surely the principal
mark and symbol of that change is the change in the music
of the church. The development of what has come to be
called Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) has become an
amazingly widespread phenomenon". Due to the rise of
Pentecostalism there is some dramatic change in development
of CCM. Contemporary Christian Music is pop/rock version of
Christian Music with lyrics based on Christian Faith.
Contemporary Christian Music became more popular in 1980's
with Music of Christian Music Artist Michael W. Smith and
Amy Grant. Millions of copies of there album were sold
worldwide. Download Christian Music Video, Video Tapes,
Christian TV Shows, Christian MTV Shows and Christian Music
Videos By 1990's there were many new Christian Music styles
such as Hip hop, metal, punk and alternative styles of
Christian Music.

Christian Music Artists like Lost Dogs, Joy Electric
and Star flyer 59 were against the new styles of
Contemporary Christian Music and they continued to
create and compile Original Christian Music. Due to
tunes and melodies of Christian Music melodies, it is
considered as Traditional art. Russian Christian Music
is one of those few music which doesn't use any instruments
in it, It is sang by choir without background music and
Catholic masses in catholic church still perform Bach
organ music which were created long time ago.


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