I am especially helped by the idea that a songs worldview is crucial for me to be able to partake in good conscience.

We, as Christians, need to be careful about the worldview that we are ingesting when we choose the music we listen to. You are right - people often go to music for comfort, because they find in it (musically and lyrically) a connection.

We just need to make sure we are connecting with truth and not error. We need to make sure we are being comforted by truth - whether it be exposing the true heinousness of sin or glorying in the beauty of something God has deemed beautiful.

In all of our listening, watching, and participating in popular culture, I see a great need to “hold fast to what is good, and shun every form of evil.” We need to think God’s thoughts after Him.

I think some Christian music is very poor. I enjoy more artists who cannot truth to life (like Steven Curtis Chapman and Derek Webb) than other artists. And, these men are deeply spiritual. There is a connection there. Perhaps the reason for so much shallow Christian music, and why they can only say things like “You are beautiful,” or “Holy are You,” or other truth-propositions, is because there is no life in the soul.

Interacting and walking with Christ leads to a gospel-saturated life. I appreciate your efforts to help us in the this regard. I am struggling through these issues with you, and reading this post has helped me even further along.