Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

“I want to play hardball in this [music] business. … I want tobe on the same level professionally with performers in all areasof music. I love to hear Billy Joel, Kenny Loggins and theDoobie Brothers. Why not? I aim to bridge the gap betweenChristian and pop” (Amy Grant, interview, Time, March 11,1985).“Christians can be sexy. What I’m doing is a good thing” (AmyGrant, interview, People, July 15, 1991).e following is Amy’s own description of her thoughts andactions before a crowd of 30,000 young people in Kissimmee,Florida, in 1978.“We’re sitting there, I do my sound check. All these girls are inhalter tops, great figures, everybody’s wearing nothing, we’re inFloriday [her pronunciation of Florida]. I’m eighteen and Iknow what they’re thinking. I said, ‘I really want to know Jesusand I really want to love him except … my hormones are onten and I see you all … sitting out there getting chummy andpraying together—and we’re horny. My feeling is why fake it?I’m not trying to be gross, I’m saying let’s be honest aboutwhat’s coming down’” (Bob Millard, Amy Grant, 1986, p. 103).Amy’s House of Love album includes the environmentalmother-earthsong, “Big Yellow Taxi,” by Joni Mitchell.Mitchell is infamous for her open relationship with a spiritshe calls “Art.” Obviously, she is communing with demons,and it is unconscionable for Amy Grant to be promotingMitchell’s music to Christian young people.Grant’s song “Walking in the Light” teaches the damnableerror of baptismal regeneration:“e sun woke me up real early/ It’s a beautiful morn/ ‘CAUSEI’M GOIN’ DOWN TO THE RIVER/ TO BE REBORN/ Nowme and Jesus did some heavy/ Talkin’ last night/ So I’m goin’down to be dipped and/ Come up walkin’ in the light” (AmyGrant, “Walking in the Light”).Grant’s song “Faithless Heart” is about a woman who hasadulterous desires:152