Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

She moves in charismatic and ecumenical circles.She is a worship leader, and she also founded a worshipleader training school called DIVE (Deep-Innovative-Vertical-Expression).ough Rita is single, in 2004, when she was 38, sheadopted a baby boy.StryperStryper was founded in 1983 by two brothers, Robert andMichael Sweet, joined by Tim Gaines and Oz Fox (real nameRichard Martinez). ey disbanded in 1992 but have beenrecording and performing together again since 2003. eir2013 album, the eleventh, is entitled More More Hell to Pay.e album To Hell with the Devil was selected by CCMMagazine as one of the “100 Greatest Albums in ChristianMusic.Stryper is called “one of the top Christian rock bands of alltime, and pioneers in the genre” (“Christian Rock BandStryper to Release New Album,” Christian Post, Aug. 6, 2013).We have no doubt that this is true, but it only goes to provethe debauchery of Christian rock.In their interviews, the members of Stryper oen expresstheir dislike of those who “judge” them, but we are taught tojudge all things by God’s Word. To fail to do so would bedisobedience to Jesus Christ.“Prove all things; hold fast that which is good” (1 . 5:21).“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness,but rather reprove them” (Eph. 5:11).“ese were more noble than those in essalonica, in thatthey received the word with all readiness of mind, andsearched the scriptures daily, whether those things wereso” (Acts 17:11).333