Looking at how popular rock music has become and how integrated it is with our current culture, it's hard to think that at one time, people thought rock music controversial.

I read this book first in the 1980s--in fact, I even found tucked within its pages an index card with various Bible verses that a friend's Sunday School teacher planned to use in his "against Christian rock" talk. My goal then was to try to find ways for her to use to refute that talk.

Those looking for Bible verses that say "it's okay to listen to rock music" will not find that in this book. What the author does advocate is making sure to listen selectively to the lyrics of songs you are drawn to to see if the lyrics are providing a Christian message or a message consistent with the Christian life. He suggests listening only to those songs that pass muster.

This book was written so long ago, that I'm not sure the comparison chart at the end of the book would be very useful to most people. Certainly some of the groups, bands and singers are no longer active in the CCM scene (the same being true for some of the secular groups and singers listed). ( )