Hi! I'm Andrew from Melbourne Australia. I'm a Christian and I hope you feel welcome here, as small as this site is.
What's this site about?
I used to listen to a lot of non-Christian music, and to be honest, found it to be vastly superior to Christian Music. It had an energy, an arrogance and an edge that I didn't see in the Christian stuff, and missed. But I had 2 realisations about my music:
It was about worshipping a band — Christian music was about worshipping God;
I was trying to fill a hole in my life with empty things.
On the first point: you may not agree with me, but after loving bands all my life, I am convinced it is true. Why do bands secretly desire ladies to throw their underwear onstage (and the inverse of that for female-orientated bands)? Why do they create an electric atmosphere at the beginning of a concert where their fans are screaming for them as they walk on stage? Why do they want to stand higher than their fellow human being, when they are as fallible and broken as we are (sometimes more so)?
On the second point: I was listening to a lot of psychedelic music—music that could only be described as a spiritual journey inward. I was constantly looking for that perfect spiritual feeling in the music, a spiritual high, that was so elusive. I realised I was on a search for something deeper.
I set myself a challenge to find the best music—the most Majestic Christian Music—to enjoy, as I knew from my youth that discovering God through music was powerful.
I had just come back to my faith after my turbulent 20's, that I had wasted on drugs, meaningless relationships, and lost opportunities through my own poor decisions. Those years were typified by always looking around for the next girl, the next experience, or the next friend.
What brought me back was being fired from a job I loved because I was not living well, burning the candle at both ends. I knelt down and said: "I can't do this on my own, Lord! Please come back and steer the ship... I'm drowning."
Embracing my faith again in my early 30's was my turning point, and I was able to find a beautiful wife, and we are now blessed with a little girl that brings us both so much joy. My life is whole and blessed—I put that down solely to what Jesus has done for me. I know this probably sounds overly simplistic, but I find it disingenuous to sit on the fence when you could take a position, and my position is this:
"My friend, Jesus is the only way to the true filling of your soul. Do it with music, with friends, with reading the Holy Scriptures and with church. But however you do it, make your way to God my friend. I may never meet you, but I'll see you in heaven!"