The contemporary Christian rock music movement is still a dividing issue in many of our churches today, and the same questions keep floating around.
Dan Lucarini was a former rock musician and composer who, after his conversion to Christ, became a church worship leader. He told the Christian Post in a recent interview that he thought he was using his talents for God as he helped a couple of churches transition from traditional to contemporary worship services. Then God turned him completely around, and he had to get away from the CCM movement.
In his book, “Why I Left the Contemporary Christian Music Movement,” Lucarini writes, “CCM is scandalous and offensive because of where it came from and what it means around us in the world today.” He further writes, “I don’t believe that Christians can just take it and sanctify it and call it holy – rock music is the wrong musical language to tie with praise to a holy God – they’re incompatible.”
Just like this whole movement started slowly, then it can be slowly turned back around with much prayer. There is a lot of contemporary Christian music that is not rock-oriented and contains a lot of theological content, whose words are beautifully written with a soft musical melody and easily discernible. Let’s not forget those favorite hymns of old, powerful and full of action, like, “There Is Power in the Blood.”
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