‘The Jesus Music’ Film Review: Amy Grant, Stryper and TobyMac Dominate an Eager-to-Please Documentary

The Contemporary Christian Music industry is afraid of its own shadow — and so is the film

The Jesus Music
Lionsgate

In the beginning was Amy Grant. Sort of. She wasn’t the first to the Contemporary Christian Music party — a slew of shoeless longhairs in the early 70s beat her to it — but when she arrived, she was the well-scrubbed, modest girl next door who inspired a fledgling arm of the music industry to collectively dream of platinum albums.

And as one of the producers of this documentary from directors Andrew Erwin and Jon Erwin (“I Can Only Imagine”), a pleasant-enough advertorial that glides through the brief history of CCM and elides its thornier issues, Grant gets the first and last words.

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