Electronic Music vs. Conservative Christian Values – Mark Zacharias

Episode #30

Mark is an amazing friend and musician, and connecting with him over electronic music has been nothing but a blessing. Especially in the second half of this video, we wrangle with the tension between the possibilities of EDM and the tradition of Conservative Christian music philosophy. I've felt the tension of the debate and I hope that this episode is yet another step in the right direction.

CHAPTERS

0:00-Intro

1:13-Story of growth in God and music

4:45-Taking initiative / intro to electronic music

8:50-Curation of family music standards

15:40-Functionality of electronic music

20:35-Stigma of electronic music being oversimplified

23:43-The potential of the DAW / AI in the DAW

28:50-The place for AI / human attention span / Epic

39:50-Human need for stories / God's image in us / Ecclesiastes

46:20-Electronic music vs. conservative Christian values (an intro)

50:15-Romans 14 / association / loving your fellow Christian

55:20-On separating worldly and unworldly / defining worldly

1:05:12-James 3 / music relating to contexts of Scripture

1:11:30-Music is like food

1:14:11-Every genre has strengths and weaknesses / EDM / CCM

1:18:20-"Beats are wrong" "The beat is too loud"

1:23:35-In context of worship in the church

1:28:44-Releasing music / philosophy / my approach to electronic music

1:33:50-On other people's conscience and offending others

1:37:15-Theological bottom line

1:42:00-Outro / podcast goal / debate bottom line