Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

imagine the apostle Paul promoting this type of worldlything?Matt Hammitt of Sanctus Real participated in the 2003 tourof the !Hero rock opera, which depicts Jesus as a cool blackman. In !Hero, the Last Supper is a barbecue party and ‘Jesus’is crucified on a city street sign.Sanctus Real and Steven Curtis Chapman played a concertin 2003 at St. Mary Seminary sponsored by the RomanCatholic Diocese of Cleveland, Ohio. Retired Catholic bishopAnthony Pilla celebrated the Mass at the event. Chapman toldthe Cleveland Plain Dealer that it’s “a good thing” that “theCatholic Church is showing a greater openness tocontemporary Christian music” (Plain Dealer, Aug. 7, 2006).Scholtes, PeterPeter Scholtes (1938-2009) was a Roman Catholic priestwho wrote the contemporary praise anthem “We Are One inthe Spirit” which became the “banner song of the JesusMovement.” He wrote the song in the 1960s while he was aparish priest at St. Brendan’s on the South Side of Chicago. Inthat capacity he worked with the modernistic Baptistpreacher Martin Luther King. Scholtes motivation in writingthe song was to find something that would fit a series ofecumenical events. e song was published in 1968 on an LPrecord album by that title that featured songs from Scholtes’contemporary folk masses called Missa Bossa Nova and Masson 67th Street. e cover artwork featured two men beatinglarge conga drums.e song has been sung by churches of every denominationand well represents the ecumenical spirit that is creating theone-world church.Secular Rock and CCMe worldliness of Contemporary Christian Music is seenin that CCM musicians listen to every kind of secular rock306