Why I'm Repenting

I need to repent. It's Lent, so it's a good time to repent. Actually, everyday is the right time to repent. When Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door at Wittenburg which sparked the Reformation, he wrote, "When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, "Repent," He willed the ENTIRE life of believers to be one of repentance." Ok, so what do I need to repent of today? Well, if you've been following my Blog, my tweets, my Fb updates, you know I've been getting pretty amped up over U2's new cd to be released on Tuesday. Now, before you jump to conclusions, I'm not repenting over getting amped up over that! I need to repent over the fact that I may have been giving folk the impression that ALL I'm psyched up about is Bono's blatently bold Christian lyrics on the album. That may have given the impression that all the Father cares about is music that has "Jesus" in it. The fact is, the Father, the Great Musician, loves good music for music's sake. Our Father, the Creator, loves creativity...and all creativity, art, music, literature, dance, cinema, etc is evidence that there is a Creator from Whom flows all creativity. So, whether we're talking U2's No Line on the Horizon, or Rembrandt's The Return of the Prodigal Son or Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, good art, simply as ART, is pleasing to God. It honors Him. It glorifies Him, whether or not the artist in question mentions Jesus, or spiritual themes, or even whether or not the artist intended to honor God (think of the Wachowski Brothers and the Matrix!). So...my brothers and sisters, I repent. There really is no such thing as "Christian music." There's just good music and bad music. But it's still pretty cool that Bono is so boldly proclaiming his faith in Christ...