Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

don’t sing about drugs.’ Stryper may not sing about sex, boozeor drugs, but they sure didn’t say much about Jesus Christ,either! It seems impossible, but the volume of their final encoreincreased to the point that the inside of my ears began to hum(even through the ear protectors).“Finally, aer the last atom bomb crash of head-ripping,lightning blast of thunder, Michael Sweet, his back to thecrowd, lied his guitar high above his head in the classic poseof Rock & Roll defiance. Grabbing the microphone, heshouted, ‘Anyone who’s not a Christian, try our God, JesusChrist.’“And then they were gone.“ere was no altar call and no plea to accept Jesus Christ asLord, Master and Savior. All Stryper could manage was a halfheartedyodel to ‘try Christ’ like some kind of new improvedantiperspirant. ...“at is exactly what happened at Clowes Hall on March 25,1987. No Christian witnessing was done. No instruction wasgiven about the importance of the Bible, repentance, salvation,forgiveness or holiness” (Jeff Godwin, Dancing with Demons,pp. 289-292).Stockstill, JonathanStockstill, author of “Let the Church Rise,” is the worshipleader at the charismatic Bethany World Prayer Center inLouisiana and the frontman for the rock fused Deluge Band.Stonehill, RandyRandy Stonehill (b. 1952) is one of the pioneers ofContemporary Christian Music, dating back to the “JesusMovement” of the 1970s. He says that it was the Beatles whogave him the inspiration to play rock and roll: “Really it wasaer I saw the Beatles. I saw them on television when I wastwelve and I knew that that was what I wanted todo” (Stonehill, cited by Devlin Donaldson, “Life Between theGlory and the Fame,” CCM Magazine, October 1981). In 1970347