Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

To promote filthy, anti-God secular rockers in any sensewhatsoever is to be a participant in their wickedness and tomake oneself an enemy of God.“Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that thefriendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoevertherefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy ofGod” (James 4:4).“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works ofdarkness, but rather reprove them” (Ephesians 5:11).Troccoli, KathyCCM singer Kathy Troccoli (b. 1958) is very popular. Shehas been nominated five times as the Gospel MusicAssociation female vocalist of the year.Troccoli is a Roman Catholic and an ecumencial bridgebuilder. She was mentioned in an article in the NationalCatholic Register in March 8-14, 1998, which stated that sheand other Catholic musicians are using their music to“evangelize” evangelical young people into the Catholic faith.In an interview with CCM Magazine in 1997 she said: “But I’dbeen very judgmental toward the Catholic church for years,and I’ve recently been able to go back to it without having achip on my shoulder. I now have a much greater capacity for—as the album says—Love and Mercy.”Troccoli preaches an ecumenical, non-judgmental, antifundamentalistphilosophy:“To me it’s very simple: if the world doesn’t see God’s love in usand our love for each other, they’re never going to want whatwe have. Our dogma and legalism strangle the love of Christright out of us” (CCM Magazine, June 1997).is sounds good to many ears, and there is no doubt aboutthe importance of Christian love; but it is impossible to obeythe Bible without being deeply concerned about doctrine(“dogma”) and obedience to the details of God’s Word(wrongly characterized as “legalism”). Jude 3 explains that374