Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

followed by prayers, a prophecy, and hymns. Oldham, whoused to be conservative in his affiliations, has bought into theecumenical philosophy. “A few years ago he said music willbring all churches together into the ecumenicalmovement” (Calvary Contender, January 1, 1986).In 1995 she admitted to an adulterous affair with DonPeslis, who was working as one of her backup singers. Pattydivorced her husband, John Helvering, and in August 1995,she married her adulterous “lover,” who le his wife for Patty.Christianity Today reported that Patty was committingadultery with Peslis as far back as 1991 (Christianity Today,September 11, 1995, pp. 72-74). “According to severalindependent sources who at different times were aware ofPatty’s activities, she took part in two extramaritalrelationships, in both cases with married men” (Ibid.). ismeans that she was living in adultery during most of the yearsof her Christian music career.A 1995 World magazine article stated that Sandi Patty hasbeen in psychological counseling since 1989 and she“attributes her pattern of ‘keeping secrets’ to her childhoodmolestation, the memory of which she recovered intherapy” (World, September 16, 1995). is is psychobabblenonsense. e Bible nowhere says that our sin can be blamedon things which happen to us in our childhood. Nowhere inthe Word of God are Christians taught to dig through theirchildhood memories to find the key to their adult actions.Martin and Deidre Bobgan wisely observe: “Patty’s risingpopularity [aer her acknowledged adultery and the divorceof her husband] is indicative of the trashed condition ofChristians who claim the name of Christ but will not followthe doctrines of the Bible. Marrying a partner in adulterydoes not make the relationship right. It constitutes acontinual condition of disobedience to God. How does onerepent of adultery while one continues in an ongoingrelationship with a former accomplice in adultery? Sin isfurther compounded while it festers under the unholy247