Stealth Christian Music - Interesting Concept!

I recently read a very interesting article in the BBC News. The title of the article was the first thing that caught my attention. It said, “5pop songs you (probably) didn't know were about God”.

I thought to myself, even before I read the article, “There is something wrong when the message of the gospel does not come through loud and clear.” Interesting. We now have “stealth Christian music”! And the world is so blind to it that we have to have news reporters explain it to us! 

And then I read the article. I was amazed. I could not believe that the performers listed could ever be confused for true Christians. I was also amazed that these  supposed Christian pop songs could ever be labelled as Christian music . So here is the list:

• Lenny Cravitz- Really? I’m not passing judgment on his salvation here but the guy uses foul language in interviews! He HAS to know his words are going down in print!
• Candi Staton- According to her, she’s all cleaned up now, and I am thankful for that. But even she admits that’s while she was on top of the music charts she was living a life of drunkenness. 
• U2- Bono, leader of U2 is a pretty open guy concerning his brand of religion, which by the way, is very emerging churchand Catholic. But according to his interview with Rolling Stones magazine (link provided as a proof-source only. I do not recommend reading it), he thinks "Paul was a tough @#$%." but wrong about women and homosexuality. Clearly, the Bible is not his final authority.
• Prince- Wow. Just wow. Probably one of the most lustfully charged songs in pop music. The guy died a Jehovah's Witness. 

The article goes on to list quite a few more that would surprise us - Kanye West, Bob Marley, David Bowie, and quite a few others.

To top it off, while researching data for this newsletter, I came across another interesting article by an extremely liberal (God-hating, I might add) News agency, BuzzFeed. The title of this article was "11 Bands You Might Not Realize Are Christian".

The article listed some of the same groups that was in the BBC article but it listed one group that totally blew my mind! I mean, I NEVER would have suspected that ANYONE would have considered Black Sabbath to be a Christian group! Their old material was already pretty bad. Their new material isn't much better. 

So I asked myself, "what in the world is going on here? How is it that these supposed Christian artists, and Christ songs could go unnoticed by not just believers like me, but even the world? Why did some news reporters have to write an article to tell us this?"

The answer is pretty simple. The world has no idea what Christian music or Christian standards even look like. They think that if you say "Jesus" or "church" that it is suddenly "Christian". But we know better, don't we!

Or do we????

The biggest contributor to this blatant epidemic of ignorance is that so many believers are "stealth believers". They are doing their best to make it through this life unnoticed. And that's sad.

The reality is that the world is not going to get the gospel message, the only thing that can change them, unless those of us who know the truth start telling them.

Stealth Christians help no one. They don't help the lost because they hide what the lost need to hear. They don't help their churches because they are actually hindering the work of the great commission. And they hinder themselves because there is so much more that they could experience if they would simply start sharing their faith.