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Anyone else experience a radical music change?

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When I first started getting into music, I was into the entire 80's hair metal scene. I liked bands like Skid Row and Guns N roses. As time moved on, I went to bands like Metallica and Megadeth, and started getting into that scene. Slayer creeped along as well.

Then suddenly, my music changed. In my past like, I was a person that kind of blindfully followed the Catholic faith. I always thought I felt like I belong there, and there was one girl I really liked in the church. Unfortunately, all I got was hatred out of it, as I could make no friends there pretty much. I followed catholicism last year, my first year in college, and I still received the same bigotry. I found this small group to go to church with, and they ditched me after 3 weeks. If your Catholic, don't take my experience as offensive.

Anyway, over the past year, I've been growing closer and closer to Christ. I joined a Christian House Ministry, and I loved it there. One lecture made me cry one night, as it was the greatest thing I ever heard about how much God loves us, and the world gives us the opposite view. Suddenly, it caused me to turn more towards artists like Matthew West and Lincoln Brewster, a big sudden change from my previous music preference.

Anyone else have the same feeling after fully submitting yourself to christ?
 
I have most definitely..

When I was a teenager (like two years ago lol) and not a Christian,
I was really into bands like Fear Factory, Godsmack, Hatebreed..

When I became saved, my heart started really convicting me about
the music I listened to. Now I really listen to the lyrics of the music
and if my heart convicts me to not listen to them, I stop..

I do still listen to shinedown, as i lay dying, ten years etc..
but my heart hasn't convicted me about those bands..

plus their lyrics do seem alot happier then the bands mentioned before lol
 
i gave up secular music altogether a year after my salvation, not that 's a must but i just felt that god called me to give it up.

jason
 
I've been saved for about 6 years, and it's been gradual, but if you look at how I was before Christ and now, it is a massive change, it just wasn't all of a sudden. I've gotten a whole lot more into Christian music, and have recently started switching from the secular radio to the local Christian one, which I find a great encouragement.

Music is a massive part of my life, and always has been, thus it's very important with my walk with the Lord.
 
I remembered before I was 16 I listened to rap that was very dirty and said every bad word you could think of. While I loved rap I decided to switch over from the secular rap to the christian rap. I have to say that I enjoy Christian Rap a whole lot better than i do the other rap. I even use to write my own rhymes but back then I didn't care what i wrote. I wrote rhymes with every profane word you could think of and I wasn't proud of it. When i got saved I changed what i wrote in my songs. I stopped calling women certain awful names that i refuse to say and stop talking about how I wanted to sleep with them. I now if i write raps about women talking about how i want a lady who follows and worships Christ. I have also taken lyrics more seriously now than i use to. I use to only like the sound of music now it's the lyrics i like more. I have heard some great lyrics in all styles of christian music ( punk, rap, country, alternative, contemporary) . I do still like some of the classic rock though and love ballads but now I won't listen to certain songs by The Beatles because they talk about drugs ( for example Day Tripper, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds). I also now try to avoid the negative in music too which is why i can't stand listening to most secular artists today. Also i can't stand most music of today because they cuss so much and to me music isn't as talented as it was when i was growing up.
 
I have not given up secular music, just watch what you listen to. There is nothing wrong with listening to a song that says, Mary use to love Mike, now Mary does not love Mike, because Mary has found somebody new. You see God created love, so what is wrong with love songs, or singing about the interaction between a man and a woman, as long as the lyrics are not graphic. Christians kill me with that attitude. They won't listen to a non graphic love song, because they think that they are above that, what do they think is in the Songs Of Solomon, and it gets graphic in that book. Well not to the max graphic but graphic. I still listen to rock, metal, blues, R&B, funk, you name it as long as it is not against God. The band that I have started here as of late, is a R&B and funk band, and the Holy Ghost didn't tell me not to do it. Because God created it all, it is what you do with the lyrics.
 
Lewis W said:
I have not given up secular music, just watch what you listen to. There is nothing wrong with listening to a song that says, Mary use to love Mike, now Mary does not love Mike, because Mary has found somebody new. You see God created love, so what is wrong with love songs, or singing about the interaction between a man and a woman, as long as the lyrics are not graphic. Christians kill me with that attitude. They won't listen to a non graphic love song, because they think that they are above that, what do they think is in the Songs Of Solomon, and it gets graphic in that book. Well not to the max graphic but graphic. I still listen to rock, metal, blues, R&B, funk, you name it as long as it is not against God. The band that I have started here as of late, is a R&B and funk band, and the Holy Ghost didn't tell me not to do it. Because God created it all, it is what you do with the lyrics.
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i never said it was evil or a command, i felt that to me it was sin if i didn't listen to the lord call.
I'm also saying this is hapenning to me on secular tv as well. Think Romans 14

jason
 
Jason, my good brother, I was not getting on your case, I was just giving my take on it. But Paul said if you think it is sin, then it is sin to you, I don't have a problem with that at all.
 
I think I read something like that in Romans 14 just recently. It said something like what may be clean to one brother may be unclean to another.
 
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