"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.

Article written by Pandithurai K.