Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

and salvation (Ephesians 2:8-10; Romans 11:6), yet that isexactly the heresy that Mullins’ taught through this song.e following Mullins’ song teaches heresy about the LordJesus Christ.“You was a boy like I was once/ But was you a boy like me?/ Igrew up around Indiana/ You grew up around Galilee/ And if Iever really do grow up/ Lord I want to grow up and be just likeyou/ … And I really may just grow up/ And be like You someday” (Rich Mullins, “Boy Like Me/ Man Like You”).Christ was a boy, but He was NOT a boy like you or me.And though the child of God will one day be like the LordJesus in some ways, in that we will have glorified resurrectionbodies, we will never be “just like” Jesus, because He “onlyhath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man canapproach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: towhom be honour and power everlasting” (1 Timothy 6:16). Itis a common practice within CCM to bring Christ down to ahuman level.In a 1987 interview with CCM Magazine, Mullins made thefollowing statement:“I’m really sick of all this heavy-handed Christianity. Musicianstake themselves too seriously. ey should have more fun, andthey should stop preaching unless that’s what God has calledthem to. If I want to hear a sermon, I’ll go to my church, thankyou” (Rich Mullins, CCM Magazine, April 1987, p. 12).at is an unscriptural philosophy, but it is one thatpermeates CCM. Colossians 3:16 says Christian music is tobe a channel for “teaching and admonishing.” at soundslike preaching to me! Mullins was also expressing anunscriptural attitude toward preaching. Preaching is to bedone “in season and out of season.” It is not somethingrestricted to church. Preaching is also not restricted topreachers. It is every Christian’s job to exhort others inholiness and faith. “But exhort one another daily, while it iscalled To day; lest any of you be hardened through thedeceitfulness of sin” (Hebrews 3:13; see also Hebrews 10:25).233