Posted on 05/27/2021 11:22:40 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
I have been a musician since the age of 9 years old, a songwriter and performing artist for many years in addition to working as an actor in Hollywood before getting saved in 1991. You would think that someone with my background in the performing arts would be a natural fit in the Contemporary Christian Music scene, but you would be wrong. From the moment I got saved, the songs that resonated with my born again spirit were the old hymns like ‘Blessed Assurance’, ‘Saved By The Blood’, and countless others that sing of Jesus Christ. Contemporary Christian Music sings not of Jesus Christ, but the ‘universal christ’ of the New Age.
“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.” Colossians 3:16 (KJB)
In 2021, as the spirit of Antichrist continues to rise over a lost and fallen world, the pretend christians of CCM are revealing their true colors. DC Talk is a band I never liked from the moment I saw the Eye of Horus on their album cover for ‘Jesus Freak’. No Jesus there, just freaks. Now DC Talk band member Kevin Max has come out as an ‘exvangelical’, and wants the world to meet the Universal Christ of the New Age. You might know this ‘universal christ’ by another name, Satan.
Now, lest you think I am being overly harsh in my assessment, please review the following:
*Christian Rock Frontman, Jon Steingard Of Hawk Nelson, Comes Out And Says He ‘No Longer Believes In God’ Showing Perils Of Easy Believism
*Gay Singer And Professing Christian Grace Baldridge Hits The Number #1 Spot On iTunes Christian Music Charts
*Hillsong Church Holding Christmas Show At The Mayan Theater In Los Angeles Whose Walls Are Adorned With Depictions Of Child Sacrifice To Molech
*Hillsong Church Is A Snake Pit Of Open Demonic Activity As It’s Revealed Their NY Pastor Carl Lentz And Staffers Ran It Like The Playboy Mansion
*Laodicean Christian Sellout Amy Grant Glories In Her LGBT Fan Base
*Kanye West Will Join Lecrae And Hillsong Young & Free At ‘Strength to Stand’ Teen Christian Conference In Pigeon Forge Tennessee In January
If you are hooked up with with the Contemporary Christian Music scene, attend a Laodicean megachurch, or listen to anyone who sings about a ‘universal christ’, you need to run from that junk and repent of it immediately. If not, you just may wind up as an ‘exvangelical’ who is ‘deconstructing’ your faith Jesus Christ.
In the End Times people will turn away ....
Bttt
Some bands are aware of this, like Skillet
It’s had the opposite effect on me.
There’s aspects of the Bible where you’re just incredulous that people can be that stupid and divorce themselves from if not God outright than the basic truths of reality and the world around them.
And yet… here we are…
God is Truth has taken on a whole new facet of meaning to me in the past few years.
Darlene Zschech?
Religion is great for today’s people when it has no rules.
Yes, thanks.
As was prophesied...................
Much of modern Christianity has replaced the Jesus of the Gospels with a Mr. Rogers version of him: “I like you just the way you are,” instead of “I love you despite the way you are.”
Many of these people probably became “Christian” artists because it was the only way they could get into the music industry.
2 Thessalonians 2
King James Version
2 Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,
2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
17 Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
“Saved By the Blood” = one of my favorites. (Also fun to play on piano for congregational singing.)
I get a bad vibe when I here contemporary “worship” music in the sanctuary, especially if it’s too loud. It’s enough to make me prefer the traditional independent fundamentalist Baptists with the older traditional hymns.
There are always apostates, sadly.
There are always a group that seek God.
Choose wisely.
The flip side is, “I’m a good person, so if I do it, it can’t be that bad...”
The truth, makes us free.
Maybe they’ll get back to classic Catholic hymns at Mass and get rid of the campfire girls trash and drums. And get off the altar. There’s a choir loft for a reason
Huff!
It’s generally been third-rate music anyway.
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