Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

Internet and Contemporary Praise MusicWe 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.Now 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 today, theycan easily search for that group or individual on the web andcome into intimate contact with them -- not only in contactwith their music (typically played in "real" rock & roll style asopposed to the watered-down so-rock ballad versionsperformed in churches that are only beginning to dabble withcontemporary praise music), but also with their ecumenical/charismatic/separatist hating/one-world church philosophy.Men such as Paul Chappell and Clarence Sexton and RonHamilton, who should know better but who are defendingthe use of contemporary praise music, will answer to God forthe souls that cross the bridges they are building to thedangerous world that is represented by this music.We have described the dangers of the world ofcontemporary worship music throughout this Directory ofContemporary Worship Musicians as well as in the videopresentation e Foreign Spirit of Contemporary WorshipMusic, which is available as a free eVideo fromwww.wayoflife.org.Jars of ClayJars of Clay was formed in the 1990s and has had a biginfluence.eir song “Flood” achieved cross-over success and rose to#12 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart and to #37 on the190