Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary

spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin

and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.

All right, welcome to a new week at the Daily Blade. So recently, Jobi did a sermon series at the

Church of 1122 called Worship is War. So in this series, he looked at scriptural truths that can be

found in the lyrics of some of the most famous hymns of all time. So it was actually pretty

similar to what we did on the Daily Blade Week 32 in early

August of this year. That's episode's 154 through 158. And in doing the sermon series, Joby actually

did a great job of helping to expand how people think about the act of worship. And so my goal

with you here this week is to do the same thing, but in a different direction.

So there are a lot of people that use the term worship music, and what most Christians

automatically think of is actually contemporary Christian music.

So this is the music that you would expect to hear in just about every megachurch on the planet

and on most Christian radio stations. But here's the issue with that. Contemporary Christian

music or CCM is not worship music per se. It's actually a subcategory of worship music.

It's just a genre of music that could be under that category of worship music. And many of

you guys listening to this do like contemporary Christian music, and that's fine. It's actually

rather convenient for you, since it's ubiquitous in terms of worship music out there at churches

and on radios like we've already talked about. But what about the man that just

doesn't like the sound of that genre of music? What are they to do? So I actually remember

meeting with a worship leader here in Oklahoma City years ago, and this guy actually had the gall

to say that he didn't think that I was saved, that I was a Christian, because I didn't

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