Just added his link. The post in which I had put the link in is almost off the bottom of the screen, so I needed to put him in the links if I was to continue visiting his blog. (I’m using “his” as a plural - there are three him’s).

Who is Michael Card???? My husband is a casualty of being a Christian from almost birth!!! I had never even heard of Michael Card until I met the Kiwi. I have to say I quite like him. The Kiwi has very good taste in music I must say. Me, however, the old Emu, was brought up on good old rock and roll…….. well not rock and roll technically, but 80’s music. Some things make me cringe about the 80’s, some of it the music, but lots of it, the fashion. And, I see a lot of that fashion getting around right now. Fluero didn’t look good then and it doesn’t look good now.
But what is interesting is how the music we listen to can influence the way we think, or our world view; how it can make us feel sad or happy. I actually wish that I had been exposed to more Christian music when I was a teenager…… perhaps it would have steered me towards God, or softened me a little. I think the pop rock of Christian music to day is great for reaching out to young people, but they also need to hear the ‘deeper’ music, the music that introduces them to Jesus.

I’ve thought a number of times that I owe a lot to Michael Card, especially to his album, The Life, which contains music spanning the life of Jesus. That album taught me a lot about the humanity of Jesus - an often neglected area of Christology, though I didn’t realise it at the time. It didn’t suprise me to find out that Michael Card is self-conciously theologically motivated when it comes to writing his music. What did suprise me was that others have found similar treasure in the songs of Michael Card.  (HT: Justin Taylor)  Why it should suprise me, though, I don’t know.

Note: The style of music didn’t appeal to my friends, but that’s because they have no taste.

 

For some reason Christians are referring to their “tribe”, meaning, in most cases at least, their group of churches, whether it be a denomination or an informal association that shares similar philosophy of ministry/theology. I’m guessing that it comes from trying to explain the huge diversity of churches as being different “tribes” within the one Church - and therefore are not evidences of disunity - in the same way there were twelve tribes who were all Israel.

It still sounds strange.