Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

“e man sitting beside me, Dwayne from California, roaredlike a wounded lion. e woman beside Dwayne startedjerking so badly her hand struck her face. People fell likedominoes, collapsing chairs as they plunged to the carpeting.ey howled like wolves, brayed like donkeys and--in the caseof a young man standing near the soundboard--startedclucking like a feral chicken. And the tears! Never have I seenpeople weep so hysterically, as though every hurt they’dencountered had risen to the surface and popped like anoverheated tar bubble. is was eerie … people werescreaming, their bodies jerking unnaturally, their facescontorted with tics. Yet the most unsettling were the laughers,those helpless devils who were now rolling around on the floor,holding their stomachs, their minds obviously gripped by sometransformative, incomprehensible power. As I looked around,petrified that this weird phenomenon might take command ofmy sense, it occurred to me that the people in that room hardlyappeared to be basking in the glory of God’s great beneficence.Instead, they looked like they were in agony” (Robert Hough,“God Is Alive and Well and Saving Souls on Dixon Road,”Toronto Life, Feb. 1995, p. 2).e following is another eyewitness report of the “TorontoBlessing.” is is by Don Morley, a Presbyterian who lives inthe Toronto area --On October 20, 1994, we went to the Vineyard Fellowship towitness the so-called ‘Toronto Blessing,’ held in a warehousetype building near the airport. ere were about 400 people inthe main hall, plus an overflow room. ... What we observed wassickening and diabolical. Many times we felt like walking outand had to force ourselves to stay.REPETITIOUS ROCK MUSIC. For the first forty-fiveminutes a band with two soloists led the singing. e peoplewere standing and singing with them to deafening rock typemusic. e songs were about worshipping the Lord, but themusic and behaviour seemed to be opposed to the Lord’shonour. During the singing, the crowd was progressivelyaroused. In all, only about four different songs were used but273