Gavin says on "the intrinsic danger of Big Beat Music…heavy metal music…always acts to beat up fleshly lusts…, more generally…Big Beat music achieves its end of beating up forbidden fleshly lusts in part in connection with its often LOUD pulsating beat & repetition of beat; &…its evil lyrics & images with an inordinate focus on, for instance, sexual relationships used to induce fornication." So "this music genre is not intrinsically evil, but…it's a genre that intrinsically can QUITE EASILY be used for these mischievous ends; & so it's intrinsically a more dangerous music genre in its innate potential for evil." For "'CCM'…the Biblical teaching on weaker brethren in…Rom. 14 or I Cor. 8;…while a relatively small percentage of better Contemporary Christian music songs may be listened to in a private home context by stronger brethren, that none of these Contemporary Christian music songs should be used for choir or congregational singing in a public church worship service." And "some relevant works…that must be used critically include: Richard Peck's 1985…Making Musical Choices,…Bob Larson's 1987 Book of Rock…John Ankerberg's & John Weldon's 1992…The Facts on Rock Music: Is it Really Satanic?…Frank Garlock's 1971…The Big Beat." "By 1978 when I knew him, Paul Matters had repented of the sin of rock or Big Beat music," "this former band member of AC/DC told me that when he heard and saw...Contemporary Christian Musicians playing, it was all so similar in his mind in its trappings and sounds to what he had gotten out of, that it was acting to induce him into his former sins when he was with AC/DC." The "best available English translation…is the…King James Bible of 1611."
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Gavin McGrath (b. 1960) is a graduate of Sydney University, University of Western Sydney, and Moore Theological College (a Reformed Anglican College in Sydney) in New South Wales, Australia. From April 2020, he is a retired school teacher of both New South Wales, Australia, and...
