We're back from our summer break and were jumping right back into the topics that matter. This week we discuss the fate of CCM (Contemporary Christian Music) and the polarization of bands toward mainstream and worship genres. It's a lively discussion you don't want to miss.

• Featured Group: Leeland
• Family Force Five
• Sufjan Stevens
• Michael W. Smith
• Third Day

After a couple weeks of summer vacation the Doxas Dialos podcast crew comes back with a one-on-one Interview with Michael Gungor of the Michael Gungor Band. Dave catches up with Michael backstage at the Teen Mania Battle Cry tour in Philadelphia right before he goes on stage to a sold out stadium of 20,000 and gets to ask him some serious questions on how to keep your focus on God when you perform/lead worship for that many people. Check it out.

Note: the Battle Cry tour with Michael Gungor is finished

• Michael Gungor on MySpace
• Religiously Transmitted Diseases by Ed Gungor
• www.michaelgungor.com

We lead off week 007 of Doxas Dialos with a sample of "I Need You More" by Grace Center Worship, an amazing unsigned worship band from Franklin, Tennessee that you've probably never heard, but we're pretty sure you'll love. Then our top agents investigate the issues surrounding the question: who is qualified to lead worship?

"It's not the performance that matters... excellence can be a form of worship, but excellence can also be a god."
-Jon

"Wanna go ride bikes?"
-Dave

• Booker from Georgetown, Kentucky
• Rhema Worship & Praise from Toronto, Ontario
• Trevor Davis from San Diego, California
• Jars Of Clay from Nashville, Tennessee

• North Point Community Church
• Bald Worship Leader Podcast
• Club Worship

This week Doxas Dialos opens up with a little David Crowder sample and then jumps right back into the stimulating conversation on emerging styles of worship with their special guest Vince. If you don’t think you really understand what the emerging church is or what its about, then don’t miss these episodes.

"There is someone else out there that understands the questions that I have that are not being answered... I really felt like I could Worship God and not have all the Answers."
-Jeff on resonating with the Emerging Church

• David Crowder Band
• Taize
• Ten Shekel Shirt
• Devil's Playground
• YWAM
• The Mass Service
• Church On The Other Side, by Brian McLaren
• TheOoze.com
• A Generous Orthodoxy, by Brian McLaren

The usual suspects (Dave, Jeff, and Jon) talk with Jarrod, a local hard core Keith Green fan, about Keith's contribution to modern Worship music and the lasting impact of his ministry.

"I repent of ever having recorded one single song, and ever having performed one concert, if my music and more importantly, my life has not provoked you into Godly jealousy or to sell out more completely to Jesus!"
-Keith Green

• Jason the Person from Bellefonte
• Cha from West Chester
• Jewels from Coatesville
• Lindsay from Morgantown

• Keith Bio on Wikipedia.org
• Keiths Bio and Ministry on Lastdaysministries.com
• Teen Mania