The problem with what is happening at Lancaster Baptist Church in Lancaster, California, and many other places is not a few songs in soft rock style. If that were the issue, and if that would be the end of it, I would not waste my time and endanger my reputation warning about it. I would simply write it off to “style” differences. The issue is far more serious than that, though. The fundamental problem is two-fold. First, soft rock is addictive and creates an appetite for sensual music. History teaches us that soft rock leads to hard rock. That’s not debatable. It is why former contemporary worship leader Dan Lucarini, when he converted churches from traditional to contemporary, started with soft rock. It was a plan. He knew that the change had to be incremental. The contemporary music had to start out soft so as not to shock the traditionalists. He describes this in chapter 17 of his 2002 book Why I Left the Contemporary Christian Music Movement. Second, the contemporary songs they are using are bridges to the one-world church that is represented by the large majority of the contemporary worship musicians. It is not possible in this day and time for a church to use contemporary worship songs without people going online to find out more about the songs and the musicians and thus to come into contact with the full-blown ecumenical rockers and the “real” renditions of the music. (For more on this see the free eBooks Baptist Music Wars and The Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians, available from www.wayoflife.org.) (Friday Church News Notes, September 25, 2015, www.wayoflife.org, [email protected], 866-295-4143) Comments are closed.
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