Keith and Kristyn Getty’s “contemporary hymns” are used widely among “traditional, non-contemporary” churches, because they are considered relatively conservative and safe. At least eight of their songs are included in Majesty Music’s Rejoice Hymns. Twenty-nine of their songs are featured in Hymns Modern and Ancient, compiled by Fred Coleman, head of Bob Jones University’s Department of Church Music. Both Temple Baptist Church and Lancaster Baptist Church, two of the largest independent Baptist churches, perform Getty material. While the Getty’s worship music is fairly conservative in its rhythm, they are not opposed to rock & roll. They themselves rock pretty hard at some venues. And while they don’t write hard rock worship songs, they don’t speak against this, either. In fact, Keith Getty recently said that he is glad for edgy, rocking renditions of his music by artists such as Newsboys, Ricky Skaggs, Owl City, Alison Krauss, and Natalie Grant, because “it is an honor” for him to witness popular modern musicians record them, and “it’s also interesting to hear their interpretation of it and useful for the song because it helps the song get played more” (“The Gettys Exclusive: Famed Hymn Writers Talk Irish Christmas Tour,” Christian Post, Dec. 2, 2014). The Gettys represent the entire exceedingly dangerous world of contemporary worship music as surely as Graham Kendrick or Darlene Zschech, and any bridges that Bible-believing churches build to the Gettys are bridges built to the one-world “church” and even to secular rock. (For more documentation about the Gettys, seeThe Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians, available as a free eBook from www.wayoflife.org.) (Friday Church News Notes, December 12, 2014, www.wayoflife.org, [email protected], 866-295-4143) Comments are closed.
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