Posted on 06/20/2015 12:43:53 PM PDT by Moseley
The greatest force now unfolding on planet Earth – driving all the events of history – is the Church abandoning Christ.
With a few important exceptions, the Christian Church has stopped being Christian. The Ex-Church doesn’t really believe in an actual God at all anymore.
In modern America, the majority of Christians now reject the actual gospel of Jesus Christ. Sin doesn’t matter anymore. You don’t need to repent these days. Just like the joke about how to get rich in your sleep without even trying, now we can be forgiven without ever feeling regret, without changing our behavior, and without making restitution to those we have wronged.
And of course society is following this downward spiral into depravity and darkness.
However, there is a massive, dominant mechanism for spreading a message throughout the churches of America: Christian music and Christian radio. Christian radio should be a bastion of God’s truth, a stronghold for the Lord’s army. But instead it is starting to spread secular humanism, the importance of mankind above God, and salvation by human effort (the social gospel).
Earlier this year, the founder of one of America’s biggest Christian music bands renounced Christ. If that surprises anyone, they haven’t been paying attention. George Perdikis of the News Boys admitted his focus was never on God: “All I wanted to do was create and play rock and roll… and yet most of the attention I received was focused on how well I maintained the impossible standards of religion. I wanted my life to be measured by my music, not by my ability to resist temptation.”
So the News Boys founder was never in it for God. And describing Christianity as “maintaining impossible standards” proves that Perdikis has never experienced genuine Christianity.
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If there is a “Jesus in Disguise” He is disguised as a believer being tortured and persecuted....
If Jesus is in Disguise He is not handing out cups of coffee,
He is warning people that they are in danger of going to hell.
How do we know? Because that is what Jesus actually did.
How many times did Jesus preach that people would go to hell if they did not repent?
Compared with:
How many blankets did Jesus hand out to people?
What of him? Christians from all walks of life renounce the faith. That's a sad reality. Do you think musicians are somehow immune? A handful of apostates don't discredit any of the others who remain faithful. You can hold up Perdikis and Lambesis and try to use them to broad-brush other Christian musicians, but it just boils down to guilt by association, which is sophistry.
But he didn't write that song, did he?
depends on your definition of the most important Christian voice in the world.
I’ve come to like Hillsong recently. And you cant beat Philips Craig and Dean for rock solid message and good music as well
I am a Steven Taylor fan....his solo albums and Chagall Guevara work.
I thought this thread was going to be about Norwegian black metal.
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