Oct 15, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min · 12 segments
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Welcome back to the For Freedom podcast, and today we're gonna ask a question that sounds incredibly simple.
I mean, we've been through books, podcasts, to a series from Jonathan Wright on the history of CCM.
Uh, we hope to give you kind of a summary of worship music, uh, from the very start.
Now, one of the things I appreciate about John Allen Wright's Untold History of CCM series Is that he doesn't start out with Hillsong or, or Bethel or Elevation.
He starts way back and, and that's important because, you know, as Christians, we have a tendency to do this, to talk about music as though we've always done it this way.
Isaac Watts changed the way English-speaking Christians thought about congregational singing.
D.L. Moody and Ira Sankey changed the way music functioned in evangelistic meetings.
There is no single, quote, "Christian music sound", end quote, that kind of dropped out of heaven.
Yeah, a- I think it's important because as we walk through this, there are some things, um, that we mentioned Isaac Watts, I believe it was Isaac Watts that, um, was, was even ostracized by his family because he spoke in remnit- re- remetic- r- rhyming language.
And, uh, his, his mom and dad got mad at him because if he would get in trouble, he would break out into a poem that he would just make up off the top of his head, and it would rhyme.
Welcome back to the For Freedom podcast, and today we're gonna ask a question that sounds incredibly simple.
I mean, we've been through books, podcasts, to a series from Jonathan Wright on the history of CCM.
Uh, we hope to give you kind of a summary of worship music, uh, from the very start.
Now, one of the things I appreciate about John Allen Wright's Untold History of CCM series Is that he doesn't start out with Hillsong or, or Bethel or Elevation.
He starts way back and, and that's important because, you know, as Christians, we have a tendency to do this, to talk about music as though we've always done it this way.
Isaac Watts changed the way English-speaking Christians thought about congregational singing.
D.L. Moody and Ira Sankey changed the way music functioned in evangelistic meetings.
There is no single, quote, "Christian music sound", end quote, that kind of dropped out of heaven.
Yeah, a- I think it's important because as we walk through this, there are some things, um, that we mentioned Isaac Watts, I believe it was Isaac Watts that, um, was, was even ostracized by his family because he spoke in remnit- re- remetic- r- rhyming language.
And, uh, his, his mom and dad got mad at him because if he would get in trouble, he would break out into a poem that he would just make up off the top of his head, and it would rhyme.
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