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What's Wrong With Christian Rock?

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A great book. The CCM stars indeed "Convict themselves out of their own mouth." Jeff Godwin clearly shows Satan's hand in the compromise found in the Christian Rock/CCM industry.

In this book, Jeff Godwin looks at and rips apart the myth of Christian rock with a strong Bible based commentary. But that is not all that this book covers.. It also is ment as a conclusion to his two other books. And it truly has the most shocking revelations.

In 1998 I reviewed this book when I was strongly biased against Christian rock music. Because I cannot figure out how to retract the old review, I offer this public admission that I was completely naïve when I read the book. I later found distortions and statements taken out of context which were used to bend the reader in the direction of the author's bias. I publicly apologize for my foolishness in jumping onto the book's message without checking the real facts.

Rock on for Jesus!

The service I received when getting this book was exelent and I got the book for a paper about christian rock, but I completly disagree with Mr. Godwin and I believe that Christian rock can and has been used by God

I remember this writer from back when I was a kid and my parents & church believed his every word and funny enough this drove me to listen to 'secular' rock & alternative music instead of any form of Christian music.

It was only after I got married almost 4 years ago to a Christian woman that I discovered all forms of Christian music including Christian rock and I'm blown away by the impact Christian bands are making at leading more young people to Christ.

All you have to do is look up Christian Rock bands like Kutless or The Newsboys or Toby Mac to see how they minister to people at their concerts.

Shame on you Jeff Goodwin for leading so many people away from Christ. Books like these are the worse form of legalism and only continue to give Christianity a bad name...

One thing I can't stand is a Christian leader (In the media at that) misrepresenting, misinterpreting and misapplying scripture. Jeff Godwin does Just that in his book and video. Not to mention the damage he has done to many others by taking their staments out of context. I cannot say that i am in favour of all CCM material. However it is a shame that many are willing to throw the dishes out with the wash water. It doesnt take very long to realize that very few have taken Jeff Godwin on. And I guess he will say that he is being persecuted for his stance. What is important is that we stick with biblical truth and not conspiracy theories.

I wonder how many people he had to pay off to get a good review on this nonsence. he must have alot of wicked Baptists in his wallet

Excellant and scripturally sound expose on Christian Rock. As an ex-rocker prior to salvation, Jeff Godwin perfectly describes my rebellious attitude and motto "do as thou wilt" (straight from the Satanic Bible unbeknownst to me). Only a nonbeliever or wordly christian would find offense.

This book is a biased look at Christian rock music from a guy who obviously has no concept of what an open mind is.
What makes this book rediculous is that Jeff Godwin singles out rock and roll as a tool of influence used by Satan. The bible clearly says that Satan was the angel of ALL music.

Also, many of the hymns in our Sunday hymnals are based on the melodies of old pub songs. Gospel music is derived from American country/western music which in turn was derived from standard blues scales and song structure...which, ironically, is also where rock and roll comes from...LOOK IT UP.

Regardless of Satan's role as angelic musician, the church has always used music as an instrument of praise. If the chuch is going to be hypocritical about music, then maybe it should keep up.
As music evolves, the use of the new music styles can also be turned into instruments of praise.
There is absolutely no better way to reach a fan of rock music than to use his own music as a method of spreading the word.
The closed-minded view that Rock music is evil and your Gospel music is somehow holy is precisely why the people that would read this book are completely ineffective in bringing young people to Christ.
...oh and by the way...
In high school, a "new kid" at school gave me a tape of a band called "The Crucified". That tape introduced me to Christ in a way that 16 years of sunday school never did. Think about that.

Jeff Godwin does a decent job of pointing out the flaws in CCM. Not every Christian music singer is bad, however, and this point could have been stressed more. At times, an overly hostile tone was directed at CCMers. Loving, not judging.....