Why My Church Will Not Be Supporting SOULFEST

Hello and thank you for watching this video. I'm going to be addressing soul fest, which is a Christian contemporary Music festival that's coming into our area. They tour all around the country. So this is people like Matt Marr Lecrae Ben Fuller Zach Williams and several others.

Why I Will Not Publicly Support SoulFest

Okay Crowder. Some of these guys I know I know a little something about them. And I just want to start out by saying if you like their music I'm not against you if you go to the concert I mean, that's your choice.

But I'm going to explain why I as a pastor am not going to support it meaning I'm not going to stand up from the pulpit or send out emails to our church members and say hey go and Go to this concert and listen to these people and check this out.

This is great. I'm not going to do that for the following reasons number one if you know anything about Christian contemporary Music there's a lot of problems. A lot of modern artists are apostate they've gone through deconstruction they are LGBTQ affirming and they're just very unbiblical.

I mean so many Articles and stories have come out just like a new one every week. It seems like switch foot and jars of clay and just one artist after another denying the faith. Supporting gay marriage and all the rest so I look at the list of artists and I have some concerns.

Accountability, Church Oversight, and the Problem of Free-Agent Ministry

And I'm going to share those with you number one. There's no accountability most of these people are not. Most of them don't go to church. Okay, most of them are not connected to a church. Matt Maher is a Roman Catholic.

Last time I heard Matt Maher was endorsing Pope Francis didn't I read something about that? Yeah, just Protestants and evangelicals if you like some of Matt Maher's music, I mean, that's one thing but Here's the thing these guys preach in between songs.

So if Matt Maher preaches the gospel at this thing, you know, wouldn't he be proclaiming the? False gospel of Roman Catholicism. So I mean that's a concern. Lecrae has openly admitted that he has gone through so-called Christian deconstruction.

Crowder was involved in founding a church with an emergent church pastor back in the 90s. That congregation is now performing gay weddings. I mean Crowder I think is he's moved on since then but he was at least to some degree mixed up in the emergent church movement.

The emergent church movement said oh we believe the gospel, but everything else is up for grabs. Basically, so, you know, you can reject or deny pretty much 99 of the Bible. But we believe the gospel and then of course many of the emergent church Leaders, they they denied the gospel too.

So it's just there's a lot of problems and there's no Accountability every ministry needs to be connected to a local church. Every ministry has to have some oversight for accountability reasons. Because if there's no connection to a church, what if one of these guys, you know espouses heresy.

Well, there's nothing you can do about it. And I've been at you know, I'm not saying specifically For soul fest or what will or won't happen. I don't know but I have been to Christian contemporary concerts and The the gospel that they're proclaiming on stage.

It sure sounds like universalism to me again I can't say that that will or won't happen here. But some of these people yeah, there's reason For concern because they're preaching in between songs. So do I really want to tell my church members?

Hey go and listen to their music. And by the way Christianity Today, which a lot of people call Christianity astray because they're so off-base these days and liberal but even Christianity Today wrote an article where they said that these CCM Musicians they need to be held to the same standard because their lyrics teach people they need to be held to the same standard as Pastors so there needs to be a theological standard applied To the music and that's just not happening.

Discernment, False Gospels, and Concern for the Church

So what are they saying in the song some of its glorifying to God? Sure. Some of its not some of it is very man-centered. But what if they espouse a false gospel heresy? LGBT affirmation or something close to it where they hint at it, right or social justice or there's something off-base.

What if they get up there and they do that? There's no accountability because most of these people don't go to church There some of them don't go to church at all. Most of them are not members in good standing.

So there's no accountability here. Many of the CCM artists. I mean they are anti church. I read an article about Ben Fuller. You know and he was talking about how his road crew, you know, the guys who you know Set up the amplifiers before and after the show He said they're atheists, but they're more like Jesus than these Christians that go to church.

You seem to have a very, you know anti church Attitude, you know, these are typically the people that call faithful believers Pharisees.

And not trust in the church and these like things can be triggering prayer disciples. Bible.

They have a very anti. It's an anti church attitude. What can I say? So they should be held to the same standard. They should all be part of a local church. I mean, this is this is my Opinion, this is my and I think I think the Bible bears this out.

The Bible knows nothing of you know. People ministering that are free agents that are not even attached to a church and they're just off on their own there were people like that in the New Testament and They were the false teachers who are usually itinerant.

Teachers who went from place to place, but they weren't actually connected to any church. Well, that's kind of the problem here. So every ministry, yeah, we say well, that's your opinion. I think this is a biblical principle every ministry should be you know a church needs to have oversight of.

Every every ministry needs to be connected to a church in some way shape or form and that's just not happening here. So I have a lot of concerns again. They have. They have their music. They're teaching through the lyrics and then they're preaching in between songs.

So do I really want to get up from the pulpit and tell my church members or send an email around saying? Hey. Go to this concert and you know, send your kids and have Lecrae preach to your children. I don't think so.

Final Appeal for Discernment in the Last Days

So if you have any questions or comments leave them below, but That's what I that's what I think and I know there's several pastors in the area who feel the same way. That you know your church people are going to go or they're not going to go.

And we hope that we teach people to where they have discernment to recognize, you know truth from error so a lot of pastors. You know, we're not nobody's losing sleep over this. I'm not trying to make it seem like you know a huge deal.

However There are some serious concerns about the Christian contemporary music that's out there we just need to be discerning in these last days and I can say but a lot of the pastors though in the area.

They're just fully supporting it and they just don't see the problem and it's hard for me to understand that. So leave your comment below. Thanks for watching till next time. May the Lord be with you.

Have a great day.