Christian Music
I get so many questions about this, and then confused looks when I try to explain it, that I thought I should just write a post about it and clear up all the confusion…….. or multiply the confusion by 10.
Is Rhythmic Symphony “Christian Music?” I feel like the question is as silly as asking if my meals are christian meals, if my job is a christian job, and if my vomit is christian vomit. All of these things I do (hopefully the last one not as often as the others) but it’s strange to me to slap the label “Christian!” on them because I am a christian (boy, when you say that word alot it kind of starts to sound like a meachinical blade moving back and forth against steel). Every member of Rhythmic Symphony believes that the Bible is true and that Jesus is the Son of God. We believe that there is a Heaven and that tha path there is solitary (not the game solitary… geez). The Bible (GASP, he said it!) says that as disciples of Christ everything we do should reflect Him, and if your REALLY believe and follow what the Bible says then that is inevitable. Everything you do will reflect Jesus in some way. I suppose in that way we do make Christian music.
But why do we have to label everything we do as Christian? My life should echo Christ to people, but I don’t go around saying I have a Christian job. I have a job because I need to make money, and because its part of my life I reflect Jesus as much as possible in my job. But its not a Christian job. I make music because I love to and I love to share it, and I reflect Jesus in it as much as possible, but that doesn’t make it Christian music. It’s an uneccesary label.
Some Chistians ask me how come I play for secular crowds, and some secularists ask why I play for Christian crowds. Honestly I started out playing for the Christian crowd, but the problem was there was nothing “crowd” about it. Very few in the Christian crowd wanted to have anything to do with it. It was too odd for them. It was electronica…. but not techno. And there was no guitar and no overused, ripped-off, impersonal lyrics. It wasn’t worship music (…well it was, but it didn’t SOUND like worship music). They didn’t understand it. Rhythmic Symphony was an anomily that didn’t fit into their grid. So I finally got frusterated and went elsewhere. I found people that accepted me. People that accepted my music and really enjoyed it. They saw it for what it was worth. They saw me for what I was worth. I sill try to set up “Christian” shows, but they’re rare and not much has changed since back then. I still believe in the Bible and try my best to seek God, but I don’t feel as welcome in the Church as I once did. It would be absolute foolishness to turn my back on God because of the Church. I think that Church today has some serious problems, but that’s because they’re people. People screw up…. a lot.
So that’s the story. If you wanna label us a Christian band then go ahead, I don’t really mind. It’s an accurate label, but a silly, uneccesary label.