This will be short and sweet:

Imagine you are a secularist, and the Ukrainian version of “Hot and Cold” is Christianity.  I think this is what our art can look like and sound like to our secular friends. If you haven’t seen it yet, check it out:

My point? Why do Christian artists try to speak a different language? We speak in our native tongue, so let’s make indigenous art instead of covering pop songs that weren’t written for us in the first place. Let’s keep reshaping the lexicon of art in a God-honoring way through creative discipline, artistic authenticity, and originality. To do less is to be merely mocked--not because of biblical persecution, but simply because we suck. Anyone with me?