I applaud the efforts of Christian music artists, but the reason I don't listen very often to Christian rock (or pop) is because the music and lyrics are cookie-cutter predictable. Most of the world has heard The Good News and, Christian or not, just about anyone on the entire freakin' planet can recite John 3:16. Yet we're still struggling to reach the hearts of men (and women). Why is that? Is there something lacking int he scriptures that would bore or turn away potential believers? I seriously doubt that! It's pretty exciting stuff if you really take a good look at it. The trouble, I find, is that no one is willing to take the chance to break out of the rut that Christianity as a whole has put itself into. The key rule is "don't believe anything different than anyone else". Which is utter BS. Read Romans 14. It explains that people are individuals and not everyone worships in the same way. This is just common sense. But there is this ignorant fear that if you question what you believe, God will be angry with you. ON THE CONTRARY!! If you don't question what you believe, you only believe what you are told to believe. Which means that you don't really believe God at all...you believe what your fellow Man has told you to believe. Don't fall into that trap! DO question your beliefs! God appreciates that much more than blind, ignorant sheep for followers. It makes you a more competent and powerful servant for Him.
Anyhow, I think I would enjoy Christian rock that is the product of deep contemplation and meditation (as we are told to meditate upon God's Word every day). Such music, I feel, would not sound like anything that I had ever heard before. The message would of course be the same, but it would be told from the artist's unique perspective. I would expect to taste their uniqueness in the notes and words and the emotions that are expressed.
I think if an artist made a point of truly forgetting himself, forgetting the entire world he came from and all the things in it, and closed his eyes, kneeling before God as a vessel waiting to be filled with His Holy Spirit, as a loving and devoted child and servant waiting to be used as His messenger and tool, I think that the music that resulted from that kind of quietude and obedience would be VERY powerful.
I feel that music is one of THE most powerful tools for communication that human beings have. It speaks to parts of our minds, hearts and souls that mere words cannot. Where two people sing the same note, you have two people in agreement about SOMEthing at least; where two people are harmonizing, you have two people working together to create something greater than what they could've created alone. And music is something that we all share in common with every person on the planet. I don't know of a single culture that does not value music. Rock music is simply one flavour of it. It may not appeal to some, but I feel that maybe they should expand their minds to appreciate it. Just the same as we should all appreciate thunderstorms in contrast to sunny days. We may not prefer them, but we can appreciate their power and splendour.
God Bless.