Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.

Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

If you take a look at your tunes, what do you see?

This week, the gang has a conversation about secular music. Is it acceptable

for Christians to listen to whatever they want? And how should we show discernment and what we consume?

Let's join the conversation.

Well, today on Bully Pulpit, we're going to grab hold of what was. Certainly, I think in the late 70s and early 80s, a bit of a hot potato.

It's not something you hear so much about in Christian circles today.

And that is whether Christian should listen to secular music, be it classical jazz, rock, or like, it pains me to use the word disco.

Can Christians listen to it?

Or should we actually spend our time listening to Don Francisco and, was it, Larry Norman?

Larry Norman.

Why should the devil have all the good music?

Good question. Maybe that's what we spend the rest of our time talking about. So I was a child of

the late 70s and the 80s and being raised in a very conservative Southern Baptist church in Houston, Texas, you know, we heard a lot.

You do not listen to secular music.

And some of my friends did, but there were a lot of us in youth group.

You know, we listened to Christian music.

And because to listen to other things would have corrupted us.

I mean, I would have turned out like Carl Truman and Amy Bird if I had been listening

to the world's music or Satan's music.

But I think back, I mean, some of you will know exactly what I'm talking about.

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