You what?

I tell you something that really confuses me at the moment, this whole craze of trying to get Christian music into the UK charts.

The charts are a joke nowadays anyway, thanks to downloads, just look at last Christmas' fiasco with Rage Against the Machine. You can make any song be number 1 now. And some people advocate that Christian music should go in too.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about Christian music. I listen to it, a lot, but what I don't understand is throwing a Christian song, without anyone around to explain what it's about, straight at mainstream charts. The effect is a negative one. I mean, would you take a Bible verse and give it to a non-believer, and then leave it be? No, you talk to them, you explain God's message: that we humans are dead in our own sin and rebellion against God, unless we trust that God stepped into history as Jesus, who died on a cross, the only way in which we can be forgiven by God.

I just find it mad that we would take a song, which is not always based on the Bible, and throw it at the charts, and expect good things. We are not going to get popular, we preach God's message, which is exactly what the world hates. If you want popularity, you are not going to last, full stop. Sit down with a friend and explain the gospel, whatever the outcome is, don't throw a song at them and naively expect good things.