In Steve Miller's apologetic book, The Contemporary Christian Music Debate, he points out that church music was resisted at every stage of development and that several so called sacred forms led a bit of a checkered past. During the reformation, common people adapted songs originally written for heathen deities to Christian worship. From the days of John Calvin to William Booth, pub tunes were combined with new lyrics, so the newly converted could pick the songs up quicker. A modern example of the concept is Mark Farner's remake of Some Kind of Wonderful. The original recording, as performed by the late sixties group Grand Funk Railroad, was made over with lyrics that reflect a love for Jesus.
Today is no exception.
Ironically, the traditional religious community has been and always will be the greatest opposition to contemporary Christian music forms. When religious leaders should be embracing the new forms as a fresh, new move they forbid it instead. Since the early church's origin, its leaders have viewed what has already been proven in the past as sacred, and that which is new as worldly, unclean, or of the Devil. This is true concerning the music produced and the instruments introduced for worship. Unfortunately, the church never learns from its past.