Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

want in Christ. Two other of her songs are “e Body ofChrist Has AIDS” and “Love Is the Only Law.”She performs music and preaches in a variety of liberaldenominational churches as well as MetropolitanCommunity Churches. She started her own label calledBALM (Born Again Lesbian Music) and performs between150 and 200 concerts a year. She has a program called“upBeat” through which she produces a praise and worshipalbum annually with a variety of singers and songwriters.Her lesbian praise music ministry is recommended byMark Allen Powell, Professor of New Testament, TrinityLutheran Seminary and the author of An Encyclopedia ofContemporary Christian Music. He states:“e Mother of Contemporary Christian Music continues tocapture hearts for Jesus. Argue interpretations of Scripture anddebate the ethics and origins of homosexuality all you want --no one with sensitivity to things of the Spirit can deny God isusing Marsha Stevens to bring the love and mercy of Christ topeople whom God apparently has not forgotten.”To ignore the teaching of Scripture for a feeling or intuitionthat God is using a homosexual for His glory is blindmysticism. And there is no question that the Bible condemnshomosexuality as a sin in no uncertain terms and demandsrepentance from it of those those who come to Christ.Romans 1 condemns man on man and woman on womansexual relationships as “vile affections,” “against nature,”unseemly,” and “a reprobate mind” (Romans 1:26-28).According to Scripture, God made human sex for marriageand for marriage only, and anything outside of that isfornication and adultery and is subject to God’s judgment(Hebrews 13:4). From the beginning to the end of the Bible,God-ordained marriage is defined as a holy contract betweenone man and one woman. Polygamy was practiced even bysome of the Old Testament saints, but Jesus taught that thiswas never God’s will and He referred men to God’s law at thebeginning (Matthew 19:4-6). erefore, since all sexual325