Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

ough the decades, Maranatha Music has itself becomeever more radical in its use of rock & roll, ever morecharismatic, ever more ecumenical. Today its workshops havea large influence in cross-denominational education. Churchleaders from “ALL DENOMINATIONS” are welcome(maranathamusic.com). By 2008, 120,000 “church gatekeepers”who attended workshops “looked to MaranathaMusic as the leading source of worship products andservices.” Maranatha not only spreads contemporary music, italso spreads the CCM heresies of non-judgmentalism,ecumenism, and “cultural liberalism.”(See also “Marsha Stevens” in this Directory.)Card, MichaelMichael Card (b. 1956) lists several theological modernistsand Roman Catholic authors as major influences with nowarning to the viewers about their heresies and false gospels.ese include Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Malcolm Muggeridge, F.F.Bruce, and Henri Nouwen. Bonhoeffer rejected suchdoctrines as Christ’s virgin birth, bodily resurrection, andsubstitutionary atonement. According to Bonhoeffer, it is a“cardinal error” to regard Christianity as a religion ofsalvation. As for Muggeridge, Card specifically mentions hisblasphemous book Jesus Rediscovered, in which he denied thevirgin birth, deity, and bodily resurrection of Christ. F.F.Bruce denied the eternal fire of Hell and promoted theannihilation heresy. Henri Nouwen was a liberal Catholicpriest who supported homosexuality and liberation theologyand held the heresy of universalism.Michael Card is radically ecumenical. In 1996, he producedan album (Brother to Brother) jointly with John MichaelTalbot, a Roman Catholic who prays to Mary and practicesyoga. Of this venture, Card testified: “Doing this project hasenabled us to become real friends. And along the way, the41