Purpose Driven or Scripture Driven? - Way of Life Literature

"ATMOSPHERES ARE GOING TO COMETHROUGH MUSIC, BECAUSE THE MUSIC IS ASPIRITUAL THING OF ITS OWN. ... I can explaineverything better through music. YOU HYPNOTIZEPEOPLE to where they go right back to their naturalstate, which is pure positive-like childhood when you gotnatural highs. And when you get people at weakest point,you can preach into the subconscious what we want tosay. That’s why the name ‘electric church’ flashes in andout" (Hendrix, interview with Robin Richman “AnInfinity of Jimis,” Life magazine, Oct. 3, 1969).“ONCE YOU HAVE SOME TYPE OF RHYTHM,LIKE IT CAN GET HYPNOTIC IF YOU KEEPREPEATING IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Most ofthe people will fall off by about a minute of repeating.You do that say for three or four or even five minutes ifyou can stand it, and then it releases a certain thinginside of a person’s head. IT RELEASES A CERTAINTHING IN THERE SO YOU CAN PUT ANYTHINGYOU WANT RIGHT INSIDE THAT, YOU KNOW. Soyou do that for a minute and all of a sudden you canbring the rhythm down a little bit and then you say whatyou want to say right into that little gap. It's somethin’ toride with, you know. You have to ride with something. IALWAYS LIKE TO TAKE PEOPLE ON TRIPS.THAT'S WHY MUSIC IS MAGIC” (Hendrix, cited byHenderson, p. 356).These are observations and warnings that should be takenseriously by Christians. Though Hendrix was a licentiousdrug user, he was also a brilliant and gifted musician and heunderstood the nature of rock music as few men have. Hewas using music to “take people on trips.” What trip? Weknow that his trip is actually the devil’s trip. Hendrix had a“church,” but it was not the church of Jesus Christ. Thosewho think that there is no spiritual danger in rock music aredeceiving themselves and are leading others down theprimrose path of delusion. Observe that Hendrix wasreferring to the power of the music itself without the words.46