[GOPPachyderm]

I’m not saying that your friend was in this situation, but the repetitive lyrics in many of these songs can put you in an altered state of consciousness. Reason to be concerned I think

Take a look at ecstatic dancing at Club Mysterio - is this of God?:

http://sliceoflaodicea.com/slicecast/category/new-apostolic-reformation/

[Tainan]

huh?

[Alex Murphy]

...in candid conversations with pastors in retreat settings, I regularly hear that their need to control arises from a range of fears -- a fear of disappointing God, their congregations or their bosses unless they belt one out of the park every Sunday morning; a fear for souls that will be lost unless those people can be attracted to come to their churches and believe as they do, and the fear that really makes them shiver -- being ignored as culturally irrelevant.

To sum it up, it's a theological blinder: that man's "free will" trumps God's sovereignty, that the Holy Spirit cannot act on the human heart and soul unless (and until) the subject grants God permission first.

Thus, it's not a sovereign God being worshipped. Rather, since it's the unconverted soul that (they believe) can actually control whether God "shows up" or not, said uncoverted soul is placed at the center of worship.

[nmh]

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

it’s ALL SHOW and NO SUBSTANCE

and everyone leaves feeling good about THAT!