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What are young people listening to? Here's a song from this week's Top 10.
For those of us who minister to today's teenagers, it is vitally important to remain in touch with young people's lives. And the lives of young people are saturated with music. They talk with music in the background. They watch TV with music in the background. They even sleep with music in the background. A good place to go to find a list of the most current songs is on the Billboard magazine Web site. This site has rankings of songs and albums across a wide variety of genres. This week's #1 song on the Hot 100 is Crazy In Love by Beyonce featuring Jay-Z.

Crazy in Love is a song about how love can turn our world upside down. There is no language or sexual references that would be offensive in the song. It does, however, show what a powerful force love is. This song would be good to play for a group of young people and ask them questions such as these:

1)Have you ever seen someone who was just as "crazy in love"?
2)Have you ever been "crazy in love"?
3)Do you think this song can give an insight into God's love for us?

Also if you are looking for resources to help you use contemporary music to minister to young people, go to the Cornerstone Media, Inc. Web site.

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Published August 15, 2003.