What is GOSPEL music?

Rehab: The Overdose (2011)

 First we need to know what the GOSPEL is, a popular definition is “an unquestionable truth” or “a religious doctrine which is generally accepted by members of that religion”, the Gospel in Christianity might also refer to the four books in the New Testament Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Now when you put all of these things together we basically get this: the Gospel of Christ Jesus is that he is God who was born in the form of man, lived and taught the unadulterated word of God, was crucified and thus bore our sins on the cross to create the avenue for our salvation. This is encompassed in the entirety of the Bible but highly condensed in the “Gospels”

Good, we’ve got that out of the way now … what is MUSIC? A cool definition states that music is “an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner”. Therefor by simple mathematics (actually more like concatenation in programming …) Gospel music is a form of auditory communication incorporating tones of any form that proclaim the Gospel of Christ. Period.

Rehab (2010)

Now we all know Hillsong, Bebe and Cece Winans, Soul Winners and a lot more. Their music is wonderful and uplifting, but is that all Gospel music has to offer? No way! There is so much gospel music out there that you would be astonished. So let’s look at some of what we have on offer to diversify our listening potential.

Now I’m not saying all other forms of music is not good, nah I’m not like that, I personally love loads of music from rap to R&B to rock so I’m not picky, it’s just that now and then we listen hard to what is playing and find out that some things that are said we would rather not want to hear. For example an EXTREMELY popular rap artist said in one of his relatively newer songs that (and I quote) "...Jesus can't save you, life starts when the Church ends”. Now I don’t want to put my foot in my mouth and say this or that, but saying something like that is very easy to misinterpret… Ah well, who am I to judge (and I really liked the way the song sounded too …)

So I want to introduce you guys to some seriously Blessed, Lyrical and Musical geniuses who are being used by Christ to spread his word to all people through music. They are Lecrae, Flame, Tedashii, Da T.R.U.T.H (rap), Toby Mac (alternative rock/rap), Casting Crowns (soft rock) and Deitrick Haddon, Tye Tribbett (R&B). Now this is no in depth article just a pointer, feel free to scuttle over to YouTube and check these artists out, I will be dropping some links at the end of the post.

Just for a moment I just want to highlight two of my favorite albums of the last few months. Coincidentally they are by the same artist, Lecrae. The albums are “Rehab” and “Rehab: the Overdose”. Lecrae is a seasoned artist who is able to drop sick punch lines that carry the Word of God and meaning.

There is more, much much more. Soon a dedicated page will be set up to discuss uplifting, lyrically killing, jamming tunes of all type where the word of the day is the WORD of God.

Peace out.

these are some links to YouTube pages featuring Christian artists

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lecrae&aq=f

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bless'ed&aq=f

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=trip+lee&aq=f

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=monty+g&aq=f

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dwayne+tryumf&aq=f