I’m just concerned that much of the Christian Contemporary genre is neither good secular music or good sacred music. Oh, and I like some of the Hebraic or gypsy-sounding melodies for psalms.

http://www.av1611.org/question/cqluther.html

scroll down a bit a good discussion…

I guess my point was that this very struggle is nothing new to music, or the church. In the medieval period church musicians were sneaking secular tunes into the bass lines of the masses they composed, and the clergy were none the wiser. Of course, they were outraged when they learned, but they didn’t learn until these things had been being sung in the churches for sometime. While there are certainly arguments that are very good and valid regarding the theology of contemporary music, others start to fall flat. Some contemporary music isn’t pleasant to listen to at all. And though the quality of the harmonic structure of most of the older psalms and hymns is typically vastly superior, some of them do, quite frankly, just stink in the musicality department. Though I’m sure I’ll raise a few hackles here, and I’m not going to mention names, some who are attempting to write new psalm and hymn tunes are falling rather flat as well. The tunes are terrible, unsingable, and just plain unappealing–even if the theology is right on. Yet, when others use the same psalms, but write variants on Hebrew tunes, or use Hebrew melodic structure, they are critized for sounding “gypsy-ish” or too contemporary, when in reality, ir sounds much more like it would have when those Psalms were written. Okay, I’ll get off of my soapbox now!