Now to the post:<\/strong><\/span> Lefevre and his boys were Christian Rock and Roll in its 1980s heyday. Big hair, plus many an electric guitar solo. In that time period, you could not go to any rock concert and not endure a 15 minute drum solo either. I think the bands would change their leg warmers during those prolonged poundings; or maybe reapply hairspray.<\/p>\n In the 1980s, a lot of Christians contended that any music using drums or electric guitar was the Devil’s music. Seriously. So, yeah, listening to puffy-haired Mylon put me in the “rebel” category. But, not, in secular terms, of course. Yes, I was caught between two worlds…<\/p>\n What made Mylon “cool” (or whatever) was that he that he had toured with the likes of Eric Clapton, Elton John, Billy Joel, Duane Allman, Berry Oakley, Little Richard, & the Who, among others. But now he was touring with God. He could rock it out for real, regardless of his beliefs. He was a musician, not a Christian hoping to witness by trying to be a musician. And you could tell. He was just at a different level talent-wise.<\/p>\n His wiki is\u00a0here<\/a> if you are curious.<\/p>\n (If you like 80s rock at all, you might like to look this up. It’s a southern gospel rock style, and some of it is pretty good.)<\/p>\n The phrase a sheep in wolves’ clothing is a twist on “a wolf in sheep’s clothing.” \u00a0[Matthew 7:15 “Beware of false prophets who come disguised as harmless sheep but are really vicious wolves.”]<\/span><\/span> And really the phrase didn’t do it for me. It seemed phony, like a marketing guy made it up. It’s clever at first blush, but then one realizes….”Oh, it’s just trick. You’re all just… well, “dressed up”.”<\/strong><\/p>\n Today I think there is a different situation with sheep in wolves’ clothing. Firstly, less hairspray is involved.<\/p>\n Too many sheep are pretending, but to other wolves they still stink like sheep, and to sheep they seem ridiculous.<\/strong><\/p>\n Do any examples come to mind? Do you remember listening to Christian “Devil’s Music”? Mylon LeFevre and Broken Heart. Christian big hair band of the 1980s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5626],"tags":[3898,409,3897,3896,13,3895,3899,3894],"class_list":["post-4227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spark-my-muse","tag-80s-rock","tag-big-hair","tag-christian-metal","tag-christian-rock","tag-christianity","tag-crack-the-sky-sheep-in-wolves-clothing","tag-hair-bands","tag-mylon-lefevre-and-broken-heart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4227"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4236,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4227\/revisions\/4236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI have a confession to make.<\/strong> I saw Mylon LeFevre and the Broken Heart Band on the Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing<\/em> and the\u00a0Crack the Sky t<\/em>ours. I was embarrassed about this, but now I’m just going to embrace it. Of course I was only 3 \u00a0years old when it happened. Okay. I wasn’t.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/l-mylonlefevreandbrokenheart1985sheepinwolvesclothing-cover1-300x300.jpg\" "\\"l-mylonlefevreandbrokenheart1985sheepinwolvesclothing-cover1\\"")
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\n I’d like to hear from you.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
\nWho did you like?<\/strong><\/p>\n
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