AC/DC

I'm throwing a question out there for debate. Is it bad if I am Bible-believing Christian and really want to hear the new AC/DC album? :) I see the AC/DC t-shirts and I want one for "just around the house".



For those of you wondering why in the world I would want to listen to AC/DC, it's a carry over from my younger days. I was into the heavy metal bands of the nineties. When my junior class was decorating for prom, all we listened to was The Razors Edge. There is still no mistaking the beginning of Thunderstruck.



My husband and I even had a grand debate this summer about this because I so wanted to go see Def Leppard in concert. I guess you could say it's on my "bucket list". I've always wanted to see Def Leppard in concert. He even offered to send me to a Steven Curtis Chapman (whose music I love) concert that was close by, but I've seen Steven Curtis Chapman! I have never seen Def Leppard!



Our discussion last night ended with the fact that it's still the old, sin nature in me that I have to fight against. The part that wants to rebel against authority and shake my fist at the world. Part of it is the memories that it brings back. There were some times that make me smile that AC/DC was the soundtrack to.



Now, I'm going to answer my own question. It's not "bad". It's just not glorifying to God for me to. I know that I would get halfway through probably the first song and be so sick at heart that I wouldn't want to finish it. Not because God says I shouldn't do that, but because God is holy and he wants me to be holy and listening to such music would not carry me on to that goal, but bring me down.



I know, I've tried. A friend and I were doing construction cleaning one winter and got to talking about the bands and songs we used to love before we loved Christ. She went home and burned off a bunch of the songs we loved and the next day we started listening to them. I think we maybe got to the third song before we looked at each other and said, "No wonder we were such messed up teenagers!" We couldn't finish listening to it. They were all about sex, not being able to live without someone and rebelliousness, etc.



I will say that my son is lucky his mom had a metal background and that there is so many Chirstian artists playing every kind of music. I still get my metal thrills listening to P.O.D.. I enjoy Toby Mac and Skillet and Todd Agnew can rival any metal ballad for tearing your heart out. And I know that talking about metal and Christian lyrics can open up a whole new can of worms. But for me, it works.

Later:

I was going to edit and refine this post, but I decided posting it in it's unedited form was best. That's where my mind was last night in this struggle. Stay tuned to see what God did today, He is so cool!