Do you remember what music was playing during your first kiss? Do you remember what you danced to at your wedding? What was the first lullaby you sang to your child? What the first hymn was you loved to sing in church?
Music is a very important part of our lives. We have these individual, unique soundtracks. The first music I remember listening to was old-time worship music....I'm talking worship music from 1725 or so. Bach, Handel and Buxtehude were composers I heard regularly, along with hymnody and other church choral music. The joy or curse of being a pastor's kid.
As I grew up, church music was important to me, but I discovered the radio. There were these beats that once I got them into my head, I couldn't get them out. These guitar licks that were a thing of beauty. You kids of the 80's know exactly what I'm talking about! But as I grew up, and got into college something changed.
Somewhere about my junior or senior year of college I came to a realization. If I say that I'm a Christian and I'm trying to do all of these Christian things, why am I listening to music that promotes sex, drugs and many, many other not Christian things? I made a change. I decided then and there that all I will listen to was music that strengthened me in my faith.
About a month ago, I was at a songwriters' conference where the discussion was about where the contemporary Christian musicians draw their inspiration from? The answer stunned me. Top 40 radio! So, I tried. And in listening to a style of music that I had set aside for almost 10 years now, I just flashed back to the person I was at that time, and I couldn't listen to it.
The question I keep coming back to is this: What music inspires you? Each person is different. For me, it's The David Crowder Band, Needtobreathe, TobyMac and a few others. For others, that music may have no meaning. What music inspires and encourages you?
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