There is this defeatist mindset we bear so righteously as church people and it’s been giving me a hard time to chew.

Scene 1: A Believer listens and vibes to a secular song—Let’s say the words are “I have decided to follow Devil, no turning back” we will most likely scold the person, we will make exegesis on the power of sounds and how words are powerful, we will talk about how spiritual music is and interestingly so—I mean, what business does a genuine believer have with such music?

Scene 2: An unbeliever listens to a Christian song and they even vibe with it in the club and the music has words like “I have decided to follow Jesus, no turning back” they even scream it at the Top of their voices.

Why are our reactions always different?

Why do we believe words and sounds are powerful in the case of scene 1 and why don’t we believe that words and sounds are powerful in the case of scene 2?

Why do we believe that the believer by vibing and singing such song is contaminating His soul but we don’t believe that the unbeliever by singing and vibing to such song with such lyrics is implicating their own soul?

We seem to unintentionally believe that everything the secular world has is too strong that it can culture us and what we have is too weak to culture them.

For example if we listen to their music we will contaminate our atmosphere.

But if they listen to ours their atmosphere won’t be implicated.

There seems to be something inside of us that makes us feel like what we have is not as compelling enough to culture the secular world, and then on the other flip we believe that everything from the secular world is so strong to compel us

I keep thinking through this and it doesn’t just add up. What are your thoughts?