These Simple Truths

Contemporary Christian music (CCM) is a broad umbrella of popular music that expresses the Christian faith using the sound, structures, and production values of mainstream pop, rock, and singer‑songwriter styles.

Christian rock is a family of rock styles whose lyrics and outlook are explicitly Christian, ranging from evangelistic and testimonial songs to social commentary filtered through a Christian worldview.

Rock is a broad family of popular music centered on amplified instruments, a strong backbeat, and song forms that foreground riffs, choruses, and anthemic hooks.