Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature
Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature
ministries, which promotes the deception that God iscontinuing to give revelation through prophets and apostlestoday. Hamon holds the latter rain miracle-revival heresy thatGod will raise up new apostles who will operate in miracleworkingpower even exceeding that of the first-centuryapostles who will unite the churches and establish thekingdom of God. Hamon claims that the Laughing Revival(Toronto, Pensacola, Lakeland, Holy Trinity Brompton, etc.)and Promise Keepers are part of this restoration process(Hamon, Apostles, Prophets and the Coming Moves of God:God’s End-Time Plans for His Church and Planet Earth, 1997;e Day of the Saints, p. 129). Hamon says, “I refuse to beboxed in. But I may say certain things that you may try to boxme in, but I am not trying to propagate any particulareschatology” (“Battle of the Brides,” New Life Church, Nov.13, 1997). He doesn’t want to be tested by God’s Word.Robert Gay has worked with the Brooklyn TabernacleChoir, Rhema Singers, Nitro Praise, Vicky Winans, andothers.See also “Integrity Music.”Getty, Keith and KristynKeith and Kristyn Getty’s “contemporary hymns” are usedwidely among “traditional, non-contemporary” churches,because they are considered relatively safe.At least eight of their songs are included in Majesty Music’sRejoice Hymns.Twenty-nine of their songs are featured in Hymns Modernand Ancient, published by Heart Publications, a ministry ofSteve Pettit Evangelistic Association and compiled by FredColeman who heads up Bob Jones University’s Department ofChurch Music.Both Crown Baptist College and West Coast BaptistCollege, the two largest independent Baptist Bible colleges,perform Getty material in their services.132
e Getty’s popular songs include “Don’t Let Me Lose MyWonder,” “In Christ Alone” (penned by Keith and StuartTownend), “Speak, Oh Lord,” and “e Power of the Cross.”Typically, the lyrics are Scriptural and the tunes are notblaring rock & roll (though the Gettys can and do rock out intheir concerts).What could be wrong with this, then?Among all of the contemporary worship musicians, Iconsider the Gettys perhaps the most dangerous, and that isbecause what they are offering is wrapped in such anattractive package: From their Irish brogue to their physicalattractiveness and conservative appearance and effervescentcheerfulness to their foot tapping Emerald Island-tingedmusic -- even to the spiritual depth of their lyrics. ey aren’twriting the typical CCM 7-11 music (7 words sung 11 times);their lyrics have scriptural substance.But that attractive, “conservative-appearing” package is abridge to truly great spiritual danger.e Gettys represent the exceedingly dangerous world ofcontemporary worship music as definitely as does GrahamKendrick or Darlene Zschech, and any bridges that Biblebelievingchurches build to the Gettys are bridges built to theone-world church and even to secular rock.We are living in the age of end-time technology, whichmeans that one can no longer use songs and hymns withoutthe listeners being able to come into communication with theauthors with great ease. Whereas even 30 years ago, it wasdifficult to contact and be influenced by authors of Christianmusic, that has changed dramatically with the Internet.Today if people in a Bible-believing church hear songs byJack Hayford or MercyMe or Graham Kendrick or StuartTownend or Darlene Zschech or Keith Getty, songs heard in“adapted form” in many Bible-believing churches, they caneasily search for that group or individual on the web andcome into intimate contact with these people -- not only in133
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- Page 95 and 96: At first, Dorsey’s illicit mixing
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e Getty’s popular songs include “Don’t Let Me Lose MyWonder,” “In Christ Alone” (penned by Keith and StuartTownend), “Speak, Oh Lord,” and “e Power <strong>of</strong> the Cross.”Typically, the lyrics are Scriptural and the tunes are notblaring rock & roll (though the Gettys can and do rock out intheir concerts).What could be wrong with this, then?Among all <strong>of</strong> the contemporary worship musicians, Iconsider the Gettys perhaps the most dangerous, and that isbecause what they are <strong>of</strong>fering is wrapped in such anattractive package: From their Irish brogue to their physicalattractiveness and conservative appearance and effervescentcheerfulness to their foot tapping Emerald Island-tingedmusic -- even to the spiritual depth <strong>of</strong> their lyrics. ey aren’twriting the typical CCM 7-11 music (7 words sung 11 times);their lyrics have scriptural substance.But that attractive, “conservative-appearing” package is abridge to truly great spiritual danger.e Gettys represent the exceedingly dangerous world <strong>of</strong>contemporary worship music as definitely as does GrahamKendrick or Darlene Zschech, and any bridges that Biblebelievingchurches build to the Gettys are bridges built to theone-world church and even to secular rock.We are living in the age <strong>of</strong> end-time technology, whichmeans that one can no longer use songs and hymns withoutthe listeners being able to come into communication with theauthors with great ease. Whereas even 30 years ago, it wasdifficult to contact and be influenced by authors <strong>of</strong> Christianmusic, that has changed dramatically with the Internet.Today if people in a Bible-believing church hear songs byJack Hayford or MercyMe or Graham Kendrick or StuartTownend or Darlene Zschech or Keith Getty, songs heard in“adapted form” in many Bible-believing churches, they caneasily search for that group or individual on the web andcome into intimate contact with these people -- not only in133
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