It seems like they are saying "Oh you praise God better than him so you can have a trophy" or whatever they get. It doesn't seem right. It's like they are all hypocrites.
2006-08-24 07:29:54 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I need to go outside more lol :)
2006-08-24 07:55:54 · update #1
Commercial Christian music is a business.
Businesses like to make money.
Businesses like to promote their business with award shows.
So rather than complaining, what would you recommened to improve the situation??
I dis-like complainers more than I dis-like commercialization of everything.
2006-08-24 07:34:47 · answer #1 · answered by MK6 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think that it's a matter of praising God better than anyone else. What they are looking at is musicianship, which is the same thing that they look at in the Grammy Awards. Someone could praise God better than Kirk Franklyn although they might sound like a frog when they sing. So don't think so much that they're hypocrites, but just that some people like some songs better than others... It's DEFINITELY not about who praises God better. And besides, humans don't need to get prizes for praising God. He's so great, that he's great even when we don't say it... at the end of the day, big deal about who praises God best... What we should work on is our personal relationship with him, which is completely separate and apart from public worship.
I must also say that I disagree with Damian, for this simple fact. The truth is that God blesses us with Talents (read up the parable), and the best way for us to increase those talents is to use them... invest them wisely. There is nothing ungodly about having an upbeat Christian song... Remember David danced when the Spirit of the Lord was within him. When we go to have the Bread and Wine (Eucharist) it is called the celebration of the Eucharist. What we do have to be careful of is that we end up paying more attention to the music (as in the beats) than to the message in the songs. Remember what Lucifer was in Heaven (for he did once live there) he was the master of music. So again, i don't think it's wrong to have upbeat music, but we should pay more attention to the lyrics than to the music itself.
2006-08-24 14:35:41 · answer #2 · answered by Heidi D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've often wondered that myself! It's supposed to be about praise and it ends up being commercialized like everything else. Wouldn't it be great to see an award winning gospel singer come to the podium and decline the award on principle, rather than thanking God FOR it?
2006-08-24 14:36:24 · answer #3 · answered by ReeRee 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wrong point.
It's still only about the genre of music. The creativeness, the most popular, the most bought. Awards go to the most played, most requested, most illegally downloaded songs and albums, just like any other music award show.
It's just the genre of it is specialized towards the Gospel.
2006-08-24 14:36:07 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only people who dwell on this are hypocritical and will never arise above negativity in a positive setting like the Christian music awards.
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2006-08-24 14:36:00 · answer #5 · answered by Pashur 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Music is music. Just because it's about a particular subject doesn't mean that it's good or bad. Christians have never claimed to be perfect, so you hypocrite accusation is unfounded (as usual).
2006-08-24 14:35:09 · answer #6 · answered by luvwinz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Silly Christians
2006-08-24 14:39:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They are just recognizing the best in the Genre?
What's your problem?
Country music does it, so does rap, etc.
You are obviously just another Christian basher trying to point the finger of hypocrisy.
Hey guess what, we are all humans, so there fore we can ALL be hypocrites at times. Christians aren't perfect and don;t claim to be.
2006-08-24 14:39:09 · answer #8 · answered by alabamakevin 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your point that worship is meant to be connecting people to God and not judging the quality of the performance is well taken.
I think the intention is a reward for excellence, and an incentive for artists in the industry to pursue that excellence.
2006-08-24 14:37:43 · answer #9 · answered by Curly 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, it's not "you praise God better than him" it's everything, record sales, voice, ect. it may not be the greatest thing, but it is a good way to get some coverage for christian music, which lets be honest, doesn't get much publicity.
so i guess it's to get the word out there.
2006-08-24 14:38:00 · answer #10 · answered by TN girl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋