Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

(GALA) in Denver (“Turtle Creek Chorale’s 2012-2013Season,” Turtlecreek.org).e reason for this is not difficult to discern. Typically,CCM musicians have been accepted as saved upon theflimsiest testimony of faith and have not been properly taughtand discipled. ey have fed their spiritual lives with aconstant diet of sensual music and have sought aeremotional highs and “signs and wonders” instead of walkingby faith. ey have played with the world, which is moredangerous than any poisonous snake, instead of walkingseparated lives.Larry Norman, the father of Christian rock, was notdiscipled properly and in fact cares little to nothing aboutchurch. When asked by Buzz magazine what church heattended, he refused to answer except to say, “I think it’sunimportant,” and, “I don’t like the question.” He said that hebelieves it is an “obsessive compulsion” to meet at regulartimes for church, which flies in the face of Hebrews 10:25 andthe example of the early Christians (Acts 2:42; 20:7).Consider the All Saved Freak Band, one of the earliestChristian rock groups, which was influential then andcontinues to exist today in a reincarnated edition. JoeMarkko, co-founder, had only been a professor of Christ outof the drug culture for three months when he formed theband in 1968. His mentor and fellow band member Larry Hillwas an Assemblies of God pastor who le the denominationto start a work among hippies on the authority of “somevisions.” Hill’s ministry fell apart when he fled Ohio to avoidprosecution for sexual abuse (John ompson, Raised byWolves: e Story of Christian Rock & Roll, Kindle location441).We could multiply these wretched examples almostendlessly. e spiritual foundation of ContemporaryChristian Music is frightfully unscriptural. With fewexceptions, it wasn’t created by mature spiritual people who38