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Re: Rewriting Worldly Songs?
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Originally Posted by Jason Badejo
The oh so familiar philosphies of be like the world in order to "relate" or to be "effective". Kind of like Perry Noble in South Carolina singing "highway to hell" in the church service or seeker churches using the Pink Floyd (?) song "money" for offering. Or even using the song "eye of the tiger" or as a prominent former AFF boasted, used Beatles songs in his service and was going to start a series using Nirvana songs. But if one gets brownie points for "relating", well, mission accomplished. Of course, as some say, the church "needs" to use such methods because if we just preach the Word the response is minimal.
The ends justifies the means. Its not that using secular avenues makes sinners more receptive to the gospel. The more you dumb down the offense of the cross and the strong calls for self denial, repentnace, and discipleship (e.g. Luke 9, Luke 14, etc) the more you see sinners adopt the popular philosphy of "Jesus is just all right with me." That reaction however should not be confused with saving faith, as it commonly is in most chuches across America.
But of course we all know that anyone who decries such methods is just a self righteous, holier than thou, irrelavent, sinner hating pharisee. |
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