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Wyse, EricEric Wyse’s “Wonderful, Merciful Savior” is included inMajesty Music’s new Rejoice Hymns. Wyse taught at LibertyUniversity’s Center for Worship in October 2011.Wyse served as organist at St. Bartholomew’s EpiscopalChurch in Nashville from 1993 to 2001, when he was namedmusic director. is church’s 2012 Summer Movie Nightsfeatures such filthy fare as the R-rated film “Knocked Up,”which “follows the repercussions of a drunken one-nightstand that results in an unintended pregnancy.” e churchalso hosts Jazzercise classes in its gym.As a producer and consultant, Wyse has worked withecumenical rockers such as Keith and Kristyn Getty, AmyGrant, and CeCe Winans.Wyse is a one-world church builder who sees music as amajor aspect of this endeavor. One of the web sites mosthighly recommended by Wyse is Internetmonk.com, whichpromotes such things as handmade Franciscan-inspiredrosaries, the blogs of apostate emerging church leaders ShaneClaiborne and Scott McKnight, and the Merton Institute forContemplative Living, which is dedicated to the philosophyof the Buddhist-Catholic monk omas Merton.In his blog Wyse published a statement by Steven Harmonpromoting ecumenical relations with the Roman CatholicChurch. Note the following from Wyse’s web site:“In a previous post I expressed my my appreciation for theBaptist-produced Celebrating Grace Hymnal (2010) in light ofthe implications for receptive ecumenism of the Baptistpractice of hymn singing that I noted in my 2010 LourdesCollege Ecumenical Lecture (subsequently published as ”HOWBAPTISTS RECEIVE THE GIFTS OF CATHOLICS ANDOTHER CHRISTIANS” in Ecumenical Trends 39, no. 6, June2010, pp. 1/81-5/85). BAPTIST HYMNALS ARE ARGUABLYTHE MOST SIGNIFICANT ECUMENICAL DOCUMENTSPRODUCED BY BAPTISTS. ey implicitly recognize hymnwriters from a wide variety of traditions throughout the history419