Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

Prosch, Kevin(For more on the the history of contemporary praise musicfrom its inception in the Jesus People movement and theintimate association of contemporary praise with thecharismatic movement in general as well as its most radicalaspect, the “latter rain apostolic miracle revival,” see “CalvaryChapel,” “Christ For e Nations,” “Lindell Cooley,”“International House of Prayer,” “Tim Hughes,” “IntegrityMusic,” “omas Miller,” “David Ruis,” “Marsha Stevens,”“Michael W. Smith,” “John Talbot,” and “John Wimber.”)e fact that “another spirit” controls the contemporarypraise music movement is nowhere more evident than in theministry of Kevin Prosch, whose praise songs include “Harpin My Heart,” “Show Your Power,” and “Love Is All You Need.”Some of Prosch’s music is published by Integrity.Prosch is said to have “influenced more worship artiststhan any other leader in this decade,” including Martin Smithof Delirious, Matt Redman, and Darrell Evans.”He lives in Amarillo, Texas, owns a recording studio, isassociate senior pastor at More Church, and pursues hobbiesthat include “fishing, lots of camping, and a good glass ofLagavulin” (Scotch whiskey).Prosch breaks down the walls between the holy and unholyin a shocking way. His former band the Black Peppercorns isdescribed as “a group that played in pubs and bars and sangsongs that blurred the lines between sacred and secular andsaw folks in those bars have genuine encounters with theSpirit” (“Kevin Prosch, the Black Peppercorns, and EmergentCharismatics,” jonathanstegall.com).To blur the line between the sacred and secular is to follow“another spirit” (2 Cor. 11:4). Israel’s priests were reprovedwhen they “put no difference between the holy and profane”and showed no “difference between the unclean and theclean” (Ezek. 22:26). ere are many clear lines that are to bedrawn in the Christian life, but the CCM crowd wants to258