Secular song’s and non Christian song’s

I have always heard my Christian musician friends talking about listening to non Christian songs or even playing as a regular job in clubs. In this post I do not pretend to answer if it is allowed or not, but rather to raise some questions in order to know about the possibility of Christian been involved with non Christian music, or to see what does make a song Christian or non Christian.
And there is bunch of questions that comes up to my mind when music is the subject, let’s check!
Firstly I was thinking about what or how can somebody possible knows if a song is a Christian or not and this is the question.

#1- What does authenticate or validate a song to be accepted as a Christian song or not?

#2- Why only music is pointed as devilish? What about the movies, soap operas, soccer, football, baseball and not to mention about these very popular fighting, ‘free’ violence that wee see  on daylight programs?

#3- If what does authenticate a song to be called secular is not been explicit about God or not talking about God, there is a lot of “Christian” songs that is not explicit about God, so it is not to be considered as a Christian!

#4- If what does authenticate a song to be accepted as Christian is the motivation of the author, what to say about those songs that we have in the Baptist Hymnal @ the Baptist churches and assemblies of God as well that in the great majority used on old west saloon’s back in the 1800′s? Also nobody can deny that God still speaks so much through those songs and there are a lot of people that has been comforted, encouraged and inspired and even has had answers from God by the lyrics on these songs.

#5- If the ingredient that validates is the motivation, what to say about the motivation of some “so called Christians” that make their music using the “poetical License” to preach heresies, deturpate and modify (increasing or diminishing) the word of God, lyrics like “God’s best is yet to come” among others?, this is a very serious problem in Brazil, most of them unfortunately imported from US. Funny to think is that there is a lot’s of good preachers in US like Mark Driscol, Andy Stanley, Craig Groeschel just to name a few and they go after the ‘bad ones’.

#6- If the motivation is what validates why is that the American singer Michael W. Smith started singing “ Let it rain open the flood gates of heaven and let it rain” and every singer in south America started to compose songs about rain?
Have they received the same anointing or it was only marketing for the great influence from a first world singer to sell millions of copies?
In Brazil specially nowadays the anointing does not come from heaven anymore, but from US, Australia, Ireland and so on.

IMHO to conclude this question, I sure that what define if is allowed or not to us as Christian to listen or play non “Christian” songs, been a professional musician or not, it is the motivation of your heart and what your priorities are:

A- Who are you?
B- Who is God in your life? Cause if you’re a bad character any profession will serve to dishonor God.

Unfortunately the great majority of musicians that has gone from churches to clubs they had no idea about their identity as a Christian nor knew who God were in their lives.

A lot more could be added to exemplify what some people call “common grace” and can be seen all over the globe, songs that reveal God through their lyrics, but for now it is OK.

As the Apostle Paul wrote:
“Be in peace for I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,” “nor the non Christian songs”* Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Rom. 8:38,39

*added by me
Pr. Carlos Rizzon WWW.IGREJAURBANA.ORG
Ps. I have no intention in instigate nobody to listen non Christian songs nor play in clubs. If you’re serving God in a place that does not approve this, stay in obedience and don’t do it at all!