"The [rock] medium is so anti-Christian in its ethos--libertarian, anti-authoritarian, equating infatuation and sexual attraction with love, and on the drug-culture fringe--that when Christians assume that ethos to communicate the message of self-denial, cross-bearing and following Christ then it utterly mangles the message" (Colin Chapman, "Modern Music and Evangelism," Background to the Task, Evangelical Alliance Commission on Evangelism, 1968). Comment by the Friday Church News Notes editor: This powerful warning, issued 45 years ago, was ignored by evangelicals to their own spiritual confusion. Now it is being ignored by fundamentalists and independent Baptists, and the effect will be the same, because the warning is true. (Friday Church News Notes, October 31, 2014, www.wayoflife.org, [email protected], 866-295-4143) Comments are closed.
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