Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

contact with their music (typically played in "real" rock & rollstyle as opposed to the watered-down so-rock balladversions performed in churches that are beginning to dabblewith contemporary praise music), but also in contact withtheir ecumenical/charismatic/separatist hating/one-worldchurch philosophy.Let’s say someone hears the choir perform “In ChristAlone” or “e Power of the Cross” by the Gettys. ey likethe music and decide to check them out on the web. eycome across the Gettys rocking out at their concerts, andbegin to question their church’s stand against rock music.ey see the Gettys associating with anyone and everyoneand begin to question biblical separation. “e Gettys seemso sincere and Christ-loving; maybe I’ve been too hard-nosedin my Christianity; maybe the separatist stance is all wrong;perhaps I should lighten up.” ey come across Keith Getty’sJuly 2013 interview with Assist Ministries and decide to listento what the man has to say. ey hear Getty speak highly ofBono and C.S. Lewis, so they decide to take a look at thesepeople, and by so doing they begin to question fundamentalBible doctrines. Aer time, through the influence of theGettys, the soul who was once a content member of a Biblebelievingchurch, raising his children in a Bible-believingpath, is on the high road to the emerging church and thechildren and grandchildren will end up who knows where.e same could be said for the influence of Townend orKendrick or MercyMe or Zschech or hundreds of otherprominent contemporary worship musicians, because theyhold the same philosophy and represent the same bridge tospiritual danger.Men such as Paul Chappell and Clarence Sexton and RonHamilton, who should know better but who are defendingthe use of contemporary praise music either in word or byexample, will answer to God for the souls that cross thebridges they are building to the dangerous world that isrepresented by this music.134