Get to the point

I don't know whether anyone clicked through to the review of Thad Cockrell's album on Indyweek.com, but I was a little struck by the reviewer (presumably a secular music-critic) saying this:

On the songs of faith, though, Cockrell excels, taking the kind of direct approach that characterizes the best of what hymnbooks offer. When you have Jesus on the main line, get to the point: "There's going to be a great rejoicing," Cockrell proclaims. Or, "I don't want to walk away from Him."

Much of what you read by Christians discussing "art" discourages the necessity/aim of being too "overt" in any sort of presentation of the gospel, but here we are being told to "get to the point" (though that said, the "point" for some might simply, and validly, be glorifying God in the making of art, rather than explicitly sharing the gospel in all things). However, this is possibly yet more proof that it's how you do it, rather than whether or not you do. In this case, the "art" is good, so listeners don't mind taking the message, and taking it directly, with it. And when it comes to books, the fact that Marilynne Robinson's novel Gilead won the Pulitzer is proof of what is possible.