5 Reasons Christian Music Stinks (from a Christian Perspective)

The band in this picture is probably terrible (Photo by John Price on Unsplash)

If the songs at church sounded more like AC/DC, I’d probably be more excited to sing them.

(At least, that’s the joke I like to tell people.)

It didn’t used to be this way

It’s not like I don’t want to like the current Christian music scene; it’s just that I grew up in the 1990s.

People my age got to experience the apex of Christian music with groups like Petra, Audio Adrenaline, Third Day, and Guardian dominating the airways.

These bands absolutely rocked. Their albums were just plain good. (In my opinion, DC Talk was an all-time great band — period.)

But at some point, we Christians lost our way. Our music slowly became watered-down, generic, overproduced crap.

It’s gotten so bad that other than the music we sing and play at church, I simply don’t listen to Christian bands anymore. There’s just too much great music out there to waste my time on it.

Yelling at clouds

But I don’t want this to be a simple “old man yelling at clouds” piece. I want to hypothesize a little bit about why this downfall happened at all.

At some point, we Christians lost our way. Our music slowly became…