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Contemporary Music is Changing the Face of Our Worship Service

Contemporary Christian worship music is spreading across the country and is popping up and taking root in congregations of the Lord’s Church. When contemporary music enters the Church it brings more than a change in music; it brings a worldly philosophy of Christianity and a gradual lowering of all standards of morality and doctrine. (Read Col. 2:8)

Preachers of the gospel must continue to sound the alarm and warn those in his care: “when the standard of music is lowered, then the standard of conduct is also lowered. When the standard of conduct is lowered, then the sense of value in God’s truth is lowered.” This envitably leads towards a gradual slide in other areas as well until the entire church is infiltrated by ideas and programs alien to the word of God.

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3 Responses to “Contemporary Music is Changing the Face of Our Worship Service”

  1. unknown says:
    30. June 2008 at 20:22

    What is contemporary music? Are there any specific examples? Thanks

  2. Dr. Hare says:
    1. July 2008 at 16:51

    And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. Rom 12:2.
    Contemporary has to do with three things.
    • It has to do with selection of songs,
    • instrumentation, and
    • “feel”.

    It is a style of music that is produced by those who desire to keep up with their secular counterpart (Mary-Mary, Straight Company, Kirk Franklin…etc. Contemporary music evolves to include such diverse and contemporary styles as rock, jazz, blues, dance, metal, rap, alternative, new age, grunge, punk, thrash, death, gothic and industrial.
    Examples of various artist and their contemporary approach:
    Starfield - Reign In Us
    Darren Morehouse - Sanctuary
    Mending Point - Fall
    Richie McDonald - I Turn To You
    Newsboys - Presence (My Heart’s Desire)

    The scripture is opposed, in principle, to the use of guitars, drums, keyboards for music in the worship of the New Testament church. It is nothing other than a conforming of our minds to our secularized age, to the artistic, psychological, and spiritual degeneracy of our times. If it feels good to you…do it. As we study Rom. 12:1,2; Gal. 2:20; Col. 2:8 and other passages we see, the point is that although our baptized bodies are the temple of the Spirit and we are to worship the Lord with heart and voice, still our worship is not at the level of body, it is not a sensual moving and being-moved, but a spiritual sacrifice and adoration served by a well-disciplined body whose passions are chastened, whose emotions are purified. The point is that although our baptized bodies are the temple of the Spirit and we are to worship the Lord with heart and voice, still our worship is not at the level of body, it is not a sensual moving and being-moved, but a spiritual sacrifice and adoration served by a well-disciplined body whose passions are chastened, whose emotions are purified. Conclusion: What we listen to does not remain “outside” of us, but it enters into us and changes our way of feeling, reacting, perceiving. That means we cannot help being affected morally by long-term exposure to certain kinds of music.

  3. unknown says:
    1. July 2008 at 16:55

    With this contemporary music coming into the church someone has to entertain the thought of that idea. Therefore what happen to their spiritual faith and walk with Christ. When did they stop believing in the Bible?

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