Fellowship with Christ

Churches give music preeminence because it entices people, especially young people, to “go to church,” something that parents used to have a battle with.  It is entertaining, so the church meeting isn’t as boring for disinterested youth and nominal Christians.  High energy music will draw secular people from all walks of life into the building.  Some of them will even profess Christianity, as long as it is a bare-bones version that requires no major changes and is not initiated by conviction.  In fact, the current trend on Church Growth is to make adherents by making Christianity palatable to secular people.  The actual philosophy is, “If we can’t bring them in by the biblical standard, let’s lower it to a level that is comfortable and convenient for them.” Music has been enlisted to assist in this type of conversion.  The leader of a major Christian band (at that time), “Bride”, during our debate insisted that scores of young people were getti...

A couple of decades ago, I wrote a book entitled, “The Music of the Great Apostasy.”   When I revamped my website, I did not upload the book.  I intended to revised and add to it.  I believe the tile is appropriate for this article. In the book I predicted that error in Christian music would progress until it became the music of the Great Apostasy.  We have been seeing the actuality of that prediction and it’s going to get much worse.  The prediction was simply a matter of looking down the logical road to its conclusion.  There is no way that Christianity’s music can be almost totally supplanted by a secular-inspired genre and not fall into the basement of carnality.  That moment arrived long ago.  But now the matter has gone beyond simply playing around with music styles of the world system.  Just as Christianity is apostatizing in doctrine and practice, so it is apostatizing in music.  Consider that when Israel apostatiz...

After reading a review on A.D. The Bible Continues: “The Body is Gone,” I wondered why the reviewer didn’t denounce the film as harmful.   He pointed out the lack of the Gospel, the distortions and additions, but used the words “pleased” and “refreshing” concerning the rest of the film.   I also wondered; would pastors recommend a Bible to their congregations that had left out the Gospel, and was seeded with extra-biblical insertions and distortions.   Maybe if I expose the miniseries as a new bible version, more influential leaders would oppose it.  It could be called, The Theatrical Bible Version .  “ A ll the offensive reminders of sin are removed along with the Gospel.  I t’s entertaining, unlike the other Bible versions that are less artistic.”   The standard for compiling The Theatrical Bible Version is “shoulda, woulda, coulda.”  It should have its own tablet so that people don’t have to read it.  They can just tap o...

Why are professing Christians so passive during an unprecedented encroachment of evil on Christian liberty in America?  There are the standard reasons.  They are apathetic, weak, backslidden, hypocritical, etcetera.   We could make a case for one or all of those things.  I also believe that many professing Christians abhor any negative information, especially what they believe to be “doom and gloom.”  They’ve shut their minds to everything relative to eschatology.  Thus, they cannot recognize historical precursors for full-scale violent persecution.  A large faction believes that Christ is going to “come and get us before all the bad stuff happens.”  They refuse to recognize that “bad stuff”, including the wanton slaughter of Christians, is already occurring in other nations. However, I believe that there is another major underlying factor that may be responsible for all the other factors resulting in obstinate passivity.  And...

At the end of this article is an email from David Jeremiah’s office.  It is in response to a question concerning his involvement with New Age/Roman Catholic Roma Downey and her husband Mark Burnett.  There is no answer in the response to the question of why Jeremiah joined with Downey and Burnett to write two books for “A.D.: The Bible Continues.”  I watched the interview of Downey and Burnett in Jeremiah’s church at the link provided.   As I listened to Downey and Burnett explain their production, several thoughts came to mind.  First, I thought, “Wolves, sheep’s clothing.”  In other words, there is no superficial way to determine that they are not true Christians.  However, their fruit is New Age mysticism combined with Roman Catholicism.    Their production, “A.D.: The Bible Continues,” in my opinion is a mixture of truth, heresy, and extra-biblical material.  It is perplexing that professing Christians continue to ...