Pop-shaped worship

Unless an individual chooses to listen to different kinds of music, the only thing that individual will hear (most of the time) is pop.

Sure, one’s sensibilities can be shaped deliberately, and many of us have developed tastes that we once did not have. (I spent years cultivating a taste for Brahms, whom I now love, and I spent about two years cultivating my appreciation for jazz.)

If I did not believe that sensibilities could be cultivated, I wouldn’t have written the book; it is, in some senses, a plea to shape them differently from the way commercial pop culture shapes them. But for people who do not take ownership of the cultivation of their sensibilities, other cultural gatekeepers will shape them for them—and in this case, they will shape them to prefer pop.

• Professor T. David Gordon, author of “Why Johnny Can’t Sing Hymns”, interviewed by Christianity Today

Is this something to be fought or ‘ridden out’?  What do you think?