The Shift in Sacred Music Paradigm—part 5

The Shift in Sacred Music Paradigm—part 5

It is amazing to me when I lecture to church musicians, that so many of them do not consider themselves to be rock music performers.  They do not seem to realize that if they perform rock music at any level, they are rock performers.  Somehow they have developed a mindset that, although they perform music with a heavy rock beat, somehow their music is not really the “bad stuff,” since they only perform “good” rock music.  As a matter of fact, many of the “soft rock” musicians profess to be against rock music much in the same way that the country rock musicians who perform country music with a heavy rock beat deny being country rock performers.

Truly these church musicians are “of this world” since they have developed a worldly paradigm without recognizing they have been squeezed into the world’s mold musically. One has said,” There is none as blind as he who will not see.”  These church musicians are so numb intellectually that they only think in a reprobate manner.  I John 2:15 warns us, “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.  If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.”  Verse 18 cautions, “Little children, it is the last time: and ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now there are many antichrists: whereby ye know that it is the last time.”  I believe that one of the signs of the last days is the church locking arms with the world in worshipping God. II Corinthians 6:14. Speaks about this connection when it states, “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.  For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?  And what communion hath light with darkness?  And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?”