The Switch

Here's what I feel about the things that affect the gospel music industry. Do you agree with me?

Artistes have gone secular due to influence and pressure from the society and negligence of some churches. Most artistes we see today have a story to tell about their past experiences; the ups and downs they’ve been through before they got to where they are now (the top of the entertainment industry).

It has come to my notice that most of these artistes have been down the gospel road before they wounded up on the secular road, which they are struggling to pass through at the moment.

Most of them started from a young age in their homes or school churches but found themselves falling into the hands of the world due to the words they hear from random people in their lives; “you won’t make it in the gospel industry”, or “people don’t listen to gospel music anymore”, or “the gospel line doesn’t sell that much”, and all sorts. Words like these bring discouragement to people and it takes a strong mind or a strong-willed person to stand up and go for what he or she believes in.

To have the qualities of a strong-willed person, you must be stable in your faith and determination; do not wither in your faith. In other words, do not be doubtful at any point in time because you can easily lose faith in yourself as well as in God.

The word of God is very important; it is so important that we have to hold on to it every day of our lives. When I say “hold on to it”, I mean study the word everyday so that it does not depart from you, your being, or your heart. With this, you can overcome every obstacle in life; even words of discouragement, doubtful thoughts, hurtful insults, and so on, will not move you or be a problem for you to handle. Enough of the preaching! All I’m saying is that as Nigerians, we need to stay focused on our dreams and know what we want in life.  

Now, to the negligence of churches; most churches today have dispirited a lot of young talented gospel artistes, making them turn their backs from God and the church as a whole. An example of this is the case of a teen group in a particular church that was publicly embarrassed due to the dance presentation performed by the teenagers. After all the hard work they put into the dance presentation, the teens were disappointed because during their presentation, they were interrupted by one of the workers of the church who went to turn off the power supply.

They were later accused of being possessed with a snake spirit; so hilarious!!! Scenarios like this discourage young talents to lose hope in gospel entertainment andturn to the world to showcase their God-given talents.

This is so sad because we are indirectly losing gospel talents to the secular industry!!! This needs to be looked into!!! We need to encourage these youths; starting from the family, churches, schools, and the society as a whole; because they are the leaders of tomorrow.

This is why More Than Music and other gospel events are in existence; to catch the young talents into the gospel world of entertainment and keep them close and constantly inclined to the word of God.