Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

appearing on Ed Sullivan and other television shows. Forseveral years he collaborated with and performed withsecular rock groups, including Blood, Sweat & Tears and JoeCocker. He wrote three of Cocker’s hits (“Southern Lady,”“Wasted Years,” and “Boogie Baby”). In 1978, Driscoll lesecular music “to pursue a calling within contemporaryChristian music circles.”Driscoll attends a charismatic church in Cleveland,Tennessee, and regularly appears at Charismatic-Pentecostalchurches and forums. He performed, for example, at Word-Faith heretic Kenneth Copeland’s meetings and at theradically ecumenical Washington for Jesus rallies. Driscollalso performed at the Tom Skinner Memorial LeadershipConference (Biography). Fundamental EvangelisticAssociation of Los Osos, California, had the followingwarning about Skinner:“Black Evangelist Tom Skinner writes, ‘make no bones about it.I’m a revolutionary.’ His latest book, Words of Revolution, is aclever mixture of new evangelical thought phrased inrevolutionary language. He claims that ‘Jesus Christ came tobreak the system,’ and ‘to put in a new system called theKingdom of God.’ He claims that ‘it is the responsibility of thechurch to go into the world to change the world.’ He playsdown Heaven and Hell and emphasizes the here and now. Hecalls our Lord Jesus Christ ‘a gutsy radical, contemporaryrevolutionary with hair on His chest and dirt under hisfingernails.’ In spite of this, Skinner is much in demand as aspeaker in New Evangelical circles. What a shame” (F.E.A.News & Views, March-April 1971).Driscoll is openly critical of many aspects of ContemporaryChristian Music. He has stated that the gospel music industry,for the most part, is “market-driven, not Spirit-led” and “a lotof contemporary Christian music is so much like the worldyou can’t tell the difference” (Driscoll, cited by MarshaGallardo, “Money or Ministry?” Charisma, November 1993).He is critical of watering down the message of the music to91