DISTURBING Trends in Christian Music...

Hillsong Elevation Bethel There's nothing inherently wrong with the vast majority of their songs

But the way they are being used is deceiving millions of Christians into thinking they are saved because they had an emotional

Experience when the reality is that they haven't yet truly repented and submitted to the

Bible's teachings Which is the inevitable fruit of true saving faith?

Let's take a look at four major concerns related to Christian worship music

Especially among younger Christians and youth groups Musical talent is oftentimes valued more than spiritual maturity

Or even being a Christian you will find most of the texts about the attributes of God in the book of Psalms are

Singing ought to be theological and if you are going to have a worship leader He he needs to be a theologian

He needs to know God and he needs to walk in the fear of God and holiness Probably even more than the one who preaches the word it is a terrible thing that we do in churches today with regard to worship

Because we do not know the fear of God a young boy has a guitar and he can sing well Let's let him lead worship

We ought to realize that in the book of Leviticus God killed two worship leaders because they did not worship him

Conformed to the scriptures worship is a dangerous thing as someone who used to be involved with various youth groups

I've noticed the disturbing tendency to recruit into the worship band anyone who is skilled at the guitar drums piano bass and singing

Even if there are serious concerns about their spiritual lives

Many of the worship leaders at the youth group I was a part of are now firm non -christians who hate what the

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The purpose of Christian worship music should be to glorify God Communicate and teach about who

God is and to express praise for what God has done In other words, it should be

God centered However, much of the worship music we hear today is man -centered in the sense that they focus more on emotion and Entertainment than on God another thing that we need to realize is this worship is supposed to be didactic

It is supposed to be a tool for teaching. Let me read a text to you in Colossians 3 16 it says let the

Word of Christ dwell in you richly So worship springs forth out of someone who is saturated

By the Word of God with all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another

With psalms and hymns and spiritual songs So the purpose of singing in the church is first and foremost to bless

God Secondly it is didactic to teach those who are singing to encourage them admonish them and to even be

I Suppose a witnessing tool for those who are listening their unbelief. This is a problem I have with much of the modern music not all of it, but a lot of it and they don't follow these principles

It's more about feeling. I'm gonna be very honest with you. And if you get angry with me, just Forgive me.

I'm an American. I'm rude Sometimes much worship to the blizzard in the churches today is nothing more than a celebration of flesh

It is an exercise in emotion If you begin to feel the presence of God during the high emphatic notes of the song when the rhythm has been lifted up and the music is just glorious and you only feel the presence of God then it's not the presence of God you're feeling its emotion

I have known people some of the holiest people. I know that will sit down and worship.

They have no music I'm not saying this is the only way to do it. It's not but they have no music Someone will say let's sing hymn number 52 and they'll start singing and then another person will say after it's over What about hymn 103 and they'll start worshiping.

They are some of the godliest people I know on this planet who understand worship deeply and yet I'll bring people to that church who are all about The music and they'll go boy.

This is dead because their idea of life is not the true presence of Christ It's these amazing songs that lift your emotion

So there's not necessarily something wrong with that, but be very careful one time I was with a group and they said

God is here man. The music was going God's here I said no, he's not and they said how do you know

I said because most of you would be dead if God was here because He's a holy God and you know the sin that's going on in this church

He book gets so in the flesh as they feel something. I'm gonna stop here But just realize this

I hear people I was shaving this morning and Jesus appeared to me. Did you stop shaving?

There's so nonchalant about the presence of God in the Bible when the presence of God showed up.

Whoa is me I'm undone for I'm a man of unclean lips and I dwell among the people of unclean lips for my eyes have seen the king

The Lord of hosts Isaiah's experience. You said all that's the Old Testament John on the Isle of Pethmus Christ appears falls

It's a dead man Now I'm not saying that the presence of God is always like that But when it's never like that when it's always bless me bless me bless me joy joy joy dance dance dance

Something is terribly wrong He'll song Bethel and elevation concerts are filled with extremely loud music that drowns out the sound of Corporate singing so nobody can hear each other sing

They are designed to manipulate emotions with lighting the pacing of the music exciting songs that make people want to jump up and down even if they don't know

God and Even fog machines to set a particular mood The songs are often about how we feel and what we will do

Take Rather than about who God is and what he has done

The modern worship experience often results in Christians judging their own spiritual maturity and other spiritual maturity

By how they express themselves while they sing rather than by their knowledge of and obedience to The Bible I mean if the beat is right and the band is hot

I can sing all kind of lies and feel like I've met with God Just because someone gets excited by music that is designed to get them excited

Does not at all mean they are living a life that pleases God Or even that they are actually a

Christian because of all this Millions of Christian youth and Christians who attend emotion driven worship concerts have been deceived

Into thinking God accepts their worship while at the same time they reject what the

Bible teaches about sin hell salvation through faith in Christ alone human sexuality and more

Even if most of these songs are acceptable theologically There are major concerns with the teachings of the churches that this music draws people into Bethel is the most egregious of the three does

God ever choose not to heal No Do you know that Jesus so restricted his function on earth that he actually couldn't heal?

anyone and Stephen Furtick of Elevation Church has also Taught some extremely concerning things and the process of discipleship is not

God changing you into something else It's him revealing Who you've been all along and Hillsong never disciplined

Carl Lentz for teaching some Unbelievable things but but do you feel like you know there you have a moral imperative to to speak publicly about some of these more?

Controversial issues no because we try to be like Jesus very rarely. Did Jesus ever talk about morality or Social issues and all of these churches endorse

Extremely problematic teachers. It's so fun to be here This is like the largest family reunion on the planet for millions

Worship music is the gateway into these problematic ministries And so know that when you sing those songs your money is going to support false churches

That are opposed to Jesus Christ they rarely talk about sin if you if you listen to Bill Johnson or Brian Houston or Joel Osteen Kenneth Copeland Joel Osteen any of these

Benny Hinn sin is not something that you commit against a thrice Holy God that incurs his wrath in fact

Bethel Church actually will flat -out teach you that man is inherently good that man is inherently good

That's one of their staple teachings So sin is not something that you commit against a thrice Holy God that incurs his wrath rather sin is something that prevents you

From having your best life now it prevents you from Experiencing the abundant life.

It's just something that hinders you It's not something that incurs the wrath of God so a major fruit of Christian worship music is that countless?

Supposed Christians who jump up and down to worship music have been drawn into churches where the gospel is either obscured or non -existent and countless others will later on in life

Abandoned the faith because their supposed faith was purely emotion, and they had no real theological foundation in the