u guys r fun
oh Shimmie, thanks for checkin out the site...
and i don't know if its that i feel a conviction, i just really would like to know why Christians are so afraid of secular music... its something that I have never understood...
i think maybe i would like to feel a conviction about it, if that was correct, but i just don't...
maybe that makes me uber different, maybe that makes me separated from Christ... i don't really know?
i was hopin you ladies could give me some thoughts as i think about these things
and everyone... im an exaggerator lol i know i'm not going to hell that's just how i talk... i 4got nobody on here knows me lol
You're kidding me, right?
Why would you 'think', assume, determine, or judge that Christians are "Afraid" of secular music.? Where does this misconception come from? It appears that you''re passing ummerited judgments upon those who have a different walk with the Lord.
I think we need to define what secular means to Christians, which is 'separate from God'.
The posts/threads you've read here are from True Believers who want nothing of this world to separate their spiritual growth or journey that God has them on. And although it may 'appear' staange, odd, over the top or even Not all of us are 'called' to join the world's mode of living. In the same manner that God called Abraham to come out from among his family and be separate unto God, it's the same for those whose hearts have been called away from the rudiments of this world.
While many of 'us' are in the secular arena, adjoining ourselves to secular activities and pass it off as being a 'light' unto those (in darkness) who see us, yet we are doing the same as they are doing. I'm in this secular arena, I know what's going on.
However, those who have chosen to be separate from it, are the very ones on their faces before God, night and day, interceding on our behalf, without hesitation or fail, just so secular 'involved' Christians like 'us' can still stand without falling into sin.
Why? Because they are not being distracted with the world's activities which many of us do for a living. They're not distracted by moods and rhythms of vocals and instruments which sway the mind from God's focus. They're not 'hooping it up with the world, distracted from the nudge of the Holy Spirit to fall and pray. God readily has their attention and is able to have immediate and ongoing and uninterrupted access to their spirits without delays.
I'm reading something into each of your posts which appears that you have some growing up to do. No one has to agree with me on this. And I'm not trying to isolate you from wanting to be around us here. But it speaks clearly with your comments such as 'you find 'us' fun. That you see those who are sold out, as 'fearful' of the secular world. You can't be on the 'sidelines' musing at those who have a different walk with God, that excludes the secualar world you are adjoined to .
I'm in the secular world and almost 24/7. Music surrounds me almost every moment of the day. I'm in the Arts with Music and Dancing, it's been my life since I was a child. Music itsself has and will never leave me, my parents and grandparents kept me surrounded with music of all genres and I love it.
However, I do not dare to call any person of God 'fearful' because they have chosen not to partake in the secular aspects of this world. How dare anyone else call them fearful or afraid.
What these Godly women (and men) have is a fearful reverenge of the Lord. They obey His call upon their lives and make no apologies for it. These are the ones whom God calls to lay hands upon the sick and they 'see' results, not 'hope God heals'. These are the ones who labor in prayer, fasting, and abstinence of pleasures (such as Daniel), and when they pray, they 'hear' from God and not 'hope He's listening.
TDennis, I do not see you as a bad person, but I do see 'excuses' and your resistance to the fullness of God's call upon your life. Going to hell hasn't a thing to do with your reason for this thread.
I mean no harm nor disrespect of you, yet I find it so absurd that you would use the term 'afraid' of secular music.
I remember when my family knew that I was serious about my walk with God; meaning celibacy, no casual dating, no drinking, no clubbing, no foolishness, period. And my sister made the exact same comments which I've been reading in your posts.
Your singing is not going to 'redeem' you. If I'm calling this right, God has a plan to pull this rug out from under you to show you the true fear of secular music and the true love of why the others you call 'afraid', are not.
Bottomline: I think you came here to justify what God is calling you away from. There's something about where you are that God is calling you out from. He's either going to stir up the nest where you are no longer able to stay where you are OR He's going to cut the rope that you are so tightly clinging to and calling others 'afraid of'.
You see, it's a dangerous thing to say you are a Christian, and a 'light' and imspiration unto others, because God will always make us 'prove it.' Always.
He loves you just that much.
.....The same goes for me. 
