Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

have bought into the shallow arguments that are used tojustify the merger of the holy Rock Jesus Christ with theunholy rock of this world.e leaven did its job. e CCM songs published byMaranatha in the 1970s, which were considered “edgy” at thetime, are the “old conservative hymns” of the contemporarypraise movement today. is is how the devil works. He usesthe tools of confrontation, compromise, and incrementalism.He was the inventor of Hegelian Dialectics, which has beenemployed to great effect by communists, humanists, liberaleducators, theological modernists, Christian rockers, andothers to tear down the old and replace it with the new. isis done by bringing incremental change through a process ofconfronting the existing paradigm (philosophy, doctrine,culture, position, etc.) with an alternative. At first thealternative seems shocking and wrong, but with persistenceon the part of the change agents, over time the newalternative is syncretized with the old paradigm to produce acompromise, which becomes the new accepted paradigm andthe new base line for another round of change. In this way,the targeted group (e.g., classroom, church, political party,nation) is carried along slowly but surely toward theobjective.e role played by Calvary Chapel and Maranatha Music inthe 1970s (whether by design or not) was similar to whatDick Clark’s American Bandstand did in the 1950s inbroadening the popularity of rock & roll by cleaning up its“bad boy” rebel stigma in the minds of parents. Clarkrequired the teenage rockers to dress conservatively in skirtsand dresses, suits and ties, and toned down the dance moves.Clark didn’t change the licentious rebel character of rock; hemerely cleaned up its image so it could leaven every sphere ofsociety. Dick Clark was simply having a good time andmaking money, but the god of this world was pulling thestrings.40