Ecclesiastes 7 verse 5 it says it is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to
hear the song of fools and and worldly music is the song of fools the song of people that
don't believe on the lord why do you worship some wicked whoremonger with the you know
they're demon-possessed people they're one of the 21st century's most successful rock bands
selling more than 11 million units worldwide we're talking about the quartet from wisconsin
known as skillet lead singer john cooper joins us now by skype to talk about their new album
their faith and the ministry opportunities god has given them but what do you want the legacy
of skillet to be legacy is skillet what i am most proud about is the fact that skillet i think has
done something that is fairly unprecedented and that we have been on some of the biggest
rock tours in the world open for the biggest rock bands of all time some of them iron maiden
black sabbath uh slipknot that list can go on and on and on uh ozzy osbourne
well the first single is called stars what do you hope people take away from that song
oh man i am very excited about this song stars uh the story behind it is
that truthfully i felt god speaking to me that you know skillet is a christian band we're a
hard rock band we're a hard rock band but we not only do touring in the christian market
we do a lot of touring uh all over the world with hard rock bands some of the biggest secular
rock tours in the world we've been on every day more and more artists or bands in the christian
industry this is an article i'm reading speak about shedding the title of christian in an
interview with stl today front front man of the band skillet john cooper went into greater detail
about why he and his band prefer to avoid using the word christian so this is how lame he is
listen to this i just tell people i'm a hard rock band i leave christian out he told stl today
a lot of people don't know what christian rock is yeah they do that's a lie or they think it's only
for christian people we're not a band that only sings to christian people i meet tons of fans
and i've had fans say i'm an atheist and i love your message well then you're not that's not
christian if you're appealing to atheists your message isn't christian sorry you can put all
the jesus words in there you want but it's not christian skill it's weak and the statement that
statement there speaks volumes unto me i i just like clicked on one song just for like a few
seconds uh i think it was last night share's like what are you listening to like garbage and i
turned it off but the song was totally satanic i don't even remember what the name of the song was
but i'm glad it's not like stuck in my head um that's why i want to listen to it for a few
seconds i just want to see like is it super hard rock it is it's super hard rock talk about your
faith in jesus christ and how it motivates you inside and outside the music industry oh gosh
i mean my faith in jesus is is everything it's uh motivates me in everything that i do
every time i take the stage i believe god is using me as a warrior um me and my band we always do
like a you know like sports teams do before they go they have a chant you know they do their chant
skill it's chant is always um that um that we are going into battle um galatians five verse 16 says
this i say then walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh how do you walk
in the spirit when it comes to music singing to yourself in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs
singing with melody in your heart to the lord singing with grace in your heart to the lord
but verse 17 says for the flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh
and these are contrary to what the one to the other so that you cannot do the things that you
would if you pump your brain full of that garbage all all week long you're not going to be filled
with the spirit during those times it's contrary to the things of the spirit right you you're
feeding the flesh with that kind of music and that's not what we're supposed to do because
god doesn't say you know songs hymns spiritual songs and metallica okay because metallic is a
christian band no they're not pantara is not a christian band so um examples of so-called
christian artists and what they come up with