Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

warns of widespread apostasy among those who claim to beChristians, yet the ecumenical movement ignores apostasyand calls for almost unqualified unity among professingChristians. While there is little doubt that God is grieved bysome of the divisions among Bible-believing Christians, it isnot true that the heart of God is grieved by all divisionswithin Christianity, because there are divisions He Himselfhas commanded. He has commanded that His peopleseparate from those who follow doctrinal error.Kathy Troccoli is a national spokesperson for ChuckColson’s Prison Fellowship ministry.e worldly, sensual nature of her music is described in areview of one of her albums: “On a first listen, ‘Images’ hitslike a great party record. Sequencers stutter and shake;explosive, violent drums syncopate dangerously off the beat;and untamed guitar solos writhe and snake through densejungles of reverberation” (CCM Magazine, December 1986, p.32).U2U2 was formed in 1978 and has been hugely successful. eband was selected as Rolling Stone magazine’s Band of theEighties and was still called “the biggest band in the world” inRolling Stone’s December 2004 issue. U2 front man Bono wasTime magazine’s Person of the Year in 2006.But U2 is much more than a popular rock band. U2 has agreat influence in the emerging church and the contemporaryworship movement. U2’s lead singer Bono is praised almostuniversally among contemporary and emerging Christians.Phil Johnson observes that “Bono seems to be the chieftheologian of the Emerging Church Movement” (AbsolutelyNot! Exposing the Post-modern Errors of the Emerging Church,p. 9).“Bono played a far more significant role on the formative yearson those who became emergent than anyone else, from a376