Quality

I just read a blog post that I really like, so I'm going to link to it here:

5 Reasons to Kill Christian Music

Now maybe you mild mannered citizens are frowning and leaning away from your computers thinking, "Whoa, isn't that a bit harsh?"

I'm not saying you have to agree with him 100%. This guy speaks his thoughts very strongly, unlike a lot of people these days. He speaks with conviction. Anyway, I just wanted to link to his post because I tend to agree with the concept he's pushing when it comes to art and music and all that.

This is one of the things I want to work to change (maybe not so much in music, but in other artsy areas). The truth is, a lot of "clean" media is just

LAME.

Yeah, I said it. Your average "christian" media tends to be the same old same old. And that's not generally going to reach someone who's already outside of the church circle. They'll take one look at it and decide it's not worth it.

I want to be a part of making movies and books and art that are real and engaging, things that anyone could look at and say "Wow, that was really well done." And then maybe they'll think about it for a while. And then maybe they'll realize that you don't need movies to be full of curses and bloody violence and sex to be really entertaining movies. 

Making Christian Media is not my goal. My goal is wholesome media. As in, whole.

I'd like to suggest that a lot of "christian alternatives" are not wholesome in the sense that they are lacking something.

Just chew on that for a while.
People watch movies to be entertained, to bond with people, maybe to learn something.
I'd like to give them what they're looking for--and I mean not only what they think they're looking for, but what they're really looking for, deep down, on a spiritual level, even if they don't know they need it.

Metaphor time: that one restaurant's potato soup is the best potato soup because it's just different. Someone mentioned a secret ingredient, and it's gotta be something good, so you keep coming back for it. You'd take it over other potato soup anyday, even though the restaurant's not advertising what that secret ingredient is.
But if you really really gotta know, you'd work to find it. If you just can't identify it by taste, maybe you'd apply for a job there, investigate a little. And maybe it turns out to be a spice you knew existed all along but always figured wasn't worth much. Before, if someone told you "man, you need to get some of this spice, it will change your life," you wouldn't have believed them.

But when you tasted it, it made you want it. And that's what made the chase worth it.

If I'm making media I know will honor God whether it directly mentions Him or not, if it's coming from the creative spirit He gave me, I think that should be naturally present. That difference.

I went on for longer than I meant to. But yeah.