{"id":268,"date":"2006-04-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2006\/04\/endtimes-for-christian-music.html"},"modified":"2006-04-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-18T12:00:00","slug":"endtimes-for-christian-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2006\/04\/endtimes-for-christian-music.html","title":{"rendered":"End-Times for Christian Music?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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To the Christian music fans in Kansas City, Denver, and Jefferson City, Indiana, who are still waiting to watch the Gospel Music Association\u2019s Dove Awards show: your wait is not almost over<\/a>. You have at least two more weeks before the syndicated broadcast of the ceremonies, held two weeks ago in Nashville, makes it onto your local schedule.<\/p>\n

Now here\u2019s the good news for the faithful. The reason the Pony Express could get you the Dove Awards faster than modern technology is that the Christian music industry is becoming less relevant every day. That is, when Carrie Underwood is cleaning up mainstream awards<\/a> for her tearjerking \u201cJesus, Take the Wheel\u201d and Alan Jackson\u2019s gospel collection, \u201cPrecious Memories\u201d climbs to the fourth spot on the all-genres Billboard 200<\/a> chart (today it’s down to #10), it\u2019s a sign of the end of Christian music and the beginning of music that happens to be written and played by Christians. Isn\u2019t that what Christian musicians and their fans have wanted all along?<\/p>\n

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