Heb 5:12-14 NKJV) "For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. {13} For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. {14} But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil." (Italics mine)

In debating the issue of "Christian" Rock Music I have frequently been informed that I base my argument on taste. When the argument enters the realm of taste it leaves the arena of deductive and inductive reasoning and wanders in the cluttered land of opinions. In that frivolous sphere, the case for Christian Rock is protected and passionately defended with the authority of "everyone has the right to his or her own opinion."  As an opinion, my opponents would declare that the music is neutral and has no bad effects on the secular or the saved, that it is the musicians themselves who make the music bad. If this position can be proved, it would mean that by subtracting the element of secular musicians, the music revert the music back to its neutral or none offensive state. This would also mean that by adding Christian musicians, the music would then produce Christian qualities in the music. In other words, if you can neutralize the music by removing the qualities of the secular musicians, you can "Christianize" it by adding the qualities of the Christian musicians.  We should all, as honest Christians, admit that this is patently impossible.

However, proponents of "Christian" Rock have also declared that music is neutral and can be used for either God or Satan.  By that definition music has no taste at all and therefore my opinion could not be based on taste.   Most honest people agree that we all have our particular taste in music as we do in other things, such as clothing, color, or the type of vehicle we enjoy driving.  It is also apparent within Christian Rock music circles that secular music critics write articles favorable to the music that "tastes" good in their opinion.  They will even write articles favorable to certain "Christian" music artists while ignoring others whose music might be too convicting for them.  If music were neutral, this would not be the case.  Yet, by pitting their taste against mine, proponents of "Christian" rock music are able to avoid honest debate concerning their promotion of satanic music as Christian.   The focus shifts from defining the object of the debate, the music itself, to defining good or bad taste, which is of course, deemed to be a matter of opinion.  Since I have not been able to get proponents of CR into an honest debate about the music itself, I will deal with what they want to focus on, which is taste and opinions. 

I will use the taste issue as a valid argument for the position that "Christian" Rock music is not profitable and edifying for a Christian to listen to. Opinions and tastes define us very well and one can tell a lot about a person by their tastes and opinions.  Our tastes and opinions, if one is a Christian, is based on our spiritual sense to perceive the meaning of God's Word and our concept of the image of Christ.

14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.
(Rom 13:14  NKJV)

The didactic scriptures depend on the basic reliability of our spiritual sense perception that is given to each person who is filled with the Holy Spirit.  In order to make rational judgements concerning what is right or wrong for us as representatives of the kingdom of God, we must have spiritual sense perception. The reason is because not everything is listed in the specifically listed in the Scriptures that is wrong for us.   As a result, we have to develop a perception of right and wrong based on the didactic Scriptures plus spiritual sense perception given by the Holy Spirit. If we do not develop spiritual sense perception, we will eventually find ourselves in the predicament of not having a sanctified, holy nature, the distinctiveness that marks every Christian as a child of God. Consider the following scripture:

(1 Pet 2:11-12 NKJV) "Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, {12} having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation."

If we realize how the lost world perceives us, and we conform to the Scriptures, it means our spiritual sense perception about right and wrong, good and evil, must be keen. Spiritual sense perception should keep us from being involved in error that is not mentioned specifically in God's word. A Christian who has good spiritual sense perception will not allow himself or herself to adopt the tastes of the world system. It is clear that God did not allow the children of Israel under the Mosaic law to adopt the practices and lifestyles of the heathen nations about them. Since the law was a schoolmaster to lead us to Christ, it cannot be disqualified as an indicator of how God perceives sin.  God does not change; and neither would His Holy Spirit today lead us into anything that would offend the nature of God.  The Spirit of liberty in Christ does not liberate us from His Divine nature that is expressed through the Scriptures and His Holy Spirit. Therefore taste is a sufficient indicator whether a person is dedicated to having a godly nature harmonized with godliness, or a nature that harmonizes with the nature of the world system. In this sense, one's taste in music is proper to use in this debate.

We should understand what this scripture intends. (Heb 5:14 NKJV) "But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil."

Christian young people who have not reached adulthood usually do not have their basic sense perception developed yet and much less their spiritual sense perception. They need to be trained in this area just as they still need sound, spiritual parenting. The leadership of the church becomes spiritual fathers and mothers as they set forth the guidelines for biblical Christianity by both their life examples and the standards of conduct taught through in the Word of God.  Much of the church leadership today is capitulating to the bad tastes of this generation thereby placing validity on aberrant "Christian" music.  They are guilty of circumventing the development of spiritual sense perception and are hindering the work of the Holy Spirit to develop the next generation of church leaders.

There was a time in the Church when the people were recognized and respected as spiritual leaders. In this current apostate era the abundance of those who promote false "Christian" music are basically ignoring exhortations and warnings about the consequences. True spiritual leadership in many churches has been replaced by people who favor carnal indulgences and have no discernment as to what is right and wrong.   Many churches now have Christian Rock, or other forms of deviate "Christian" music, concerts in the sanctuary and Christian Rock music accompanies every youth event.  Also, the majority of professing Christian parents are living sub-par spiritual lives and allow their children to indulge in what ever the World System offers them via television. They have allowed this generation to conform to evil behavior, appearances, and attitudes that are a direct result of secular influence. This current generation has grown up with little if any spiritual instruction that could help them to develop their spiritual sense perception. 

For undiscerning adults in Church leadership to condone what is obviously evil is a tragedy of failed leadership that has acquiesced to the adolescent demands of youth. This is truly unprecedented in modern Christian history. The early church set rigid guidelines, but those guidelines were abandoned in subsequent apostasies.   In times of revival, the Church returns to the Scriptures and conforms to standards of decency in conduct and taste.  In these last few generations, these spiritual boundries have been abandoned, called old-fasioned or judgemental, and otherwise rejected in favor of liberalism and the spirit of rebellion. The argument often presented to justify this abandonment of scriptural principles is that the church would lose the younger generation if they do not allow them to have their way, especially in musical taste.  One has to wonder how the church managed to survive all these years without this anomalous philosophy.

Because the church leadership and parents did not instruct and set standards to help develop spiritual sense perception in the younger generation, an entire generation was left to their own devices in the area of music. The music in turn caused that generation to have a lack of discernment and understanding about the quality of righteousness. Righteousness has become a perception based on natural logic instead of an intrinsic quality of true Christianity recognized by spiritual sense perception. Thus, the Christian music of that particular generation was generated from secular styles because they did not spiritually perceive it was wrong. Today the spiritual sense perception of the current generation for the most part has become even less effective in determining the quality of righteousness. Subsequently, the Christian music of this present generation has further lost its Christian quality and has even began to blend with the secular world in all points.  Therefore, in a judgement of who has good or bad taste, one would definitely need spiritual sense perception to define proper taste, as they would to define right and wrong.

Spiritual sense perception has to be developed by the didactic Scriptures that are actually Scriptures that depict the nature of God. God's Divine nature is revealed as constant throughout the Scriptures. This eternal and infinite continuum must be understood and accepted by each generation of Christians regardless of the changing culture about them. There are things that will change in the church but the proper understanding of God's Divine nature must remain constant if there is going to be an unbroken thread of constancy in the character and nature of the church itself. Spiritual sense perception insures that every generation of Christians will understand the nature and will of God just as clearly as the first church. Thus, whatever methods or styles the church may change because of the influence of their culture, nothing will be adopted into the church that is out of conformity with the Divine Nature of God.

One of the things about human perception is that it is sometimes based completely on the senses rather facts. Whether or not something is beautiful may indeed be a matter of taste, yet if there is a standard of beauty that something can comply with completely, it can be declared beautiful whether you agree or not. For example, I can say that God is holy and good and whether anyone agrees with it or not, it is the truth.  It is the truth because He fulfills all the requirements of good and holy.  Someone might insert here that the standards are based on perception. I have no problem with that as long as we agree God sets the standards.

Perception based on fact will be constant in most cases. The only thing we must consider is that we must conform our tastes to the will of God. Let me explain by using an illustration of Descartes. Descartes states, concerning the qualities of the apple, that our perception of the apple's qualities of redness, sweet smell, do not belong to the apple, but only the roundness, and singularity. I disagree with Descartes that these qualities of redness and sweet smell always exist only in the mind of the observer and are imposed onto the apple. The key word here is perception. When perception is based on what a person desires in an apple that suits his or her own taste, then I agree the perceived qualities may exist only in the mind of the observer. Yet, if there is a litmus test for the redness and sweet smell of the apple that can be widely recognized as a standard of measurement, then the perception can be based on fact and not the senses alone. No one can effectively argue that an inch or a foot is a perception that exists only in the mind of the observer and is imposed on the distance one is considering when a ruler is laid to that distance. By the same token, applying the standard for an apple takes the qualities of the apple out of the mind of the observer and bases them on the standard. All we must do is agree with the standard, then the apple is judged by that measurement rather than our perception.

For example, if something is bitter, I may not with truth declare it is not bitter unless there is something wrong with my taste glands. I may truthfully say I enjoy its bitterness, or that its bitterness does not bother me, but it would be false to say it is not bitter to my taste unless it were actually so. Bitterness has a certain effect that is undeniable. If one were to deny the effects of something bitter, then they actually deny the identity of the object itself. Redness and sweetness is as much the quality of the apple as roundness and singularity. Although the degree of redness and sweetness is a matter of opinion, no one can truthfully deny that an apple. if it is ripe, is red and sweet to the degree that might be set by a standard. 

Spiritual sense perception is not formed exclusively on one's opinions of what is the will and nature of God. It is formed by the Scriptures that declare what His will and nature is. Although we are make judgements with spiritual sense perceptions, the senses themselves are spiritually trained to make the proper judgements by the Holy Spirit and the Word of God. I cannot simply declare something evil as acceptable for Christian use or practice because I naturally perceive it to have no offence to God's nature. I must judge everything with senses that have been trained by the Word of God and the Holy Spirit. What may appear innocent may be revealed otherwise after my senses are trained properly. For this reason we change as we increase in Christian maturity. What was once tolerated in our lives is no longer tolerated.

14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
(Heb 5:14  NKJV)

If we apply the same test to the lemon as we do to the apple we may get an even clearer understanding of perception. Some people like lemons while I cannot stand to put one in my mouth. I make all sorts of faces and get goose bumps when I try to eat a lemon. My daughter can eat a lemon without a sign of being affected by its sourness. The lemon has the same taste to her as it does to me, but she enjoys the effects while I cannot stand them. When I say it is sour, she cannot in truth say it is not sour. She can say that she enjoys its sourness. If the lemon were not sour it would be something altogether different than a lemon. The sour effect of the lemon is produced by an inherent quality of the lemon that identifies it as a lemon.

By the same token secular Rock music cannot be called neutral or a simply a matter of taste that cannot be challenged, for then one would be denying its effect(s) on the human soul. Denying its effects would be denying the identity of it. If one were to take away the effects of Rock music you would make it an altogether different music with completely different style. In the case of Christian Rock music, the musicians have taken a certain product identified as Rock music that has particular and peculiar effects identifying it as such. They retain the music with the effects and simply change some of the words and in some instances they do not change any of the words as in the case of Audio Adrenaline's cover of "Com'on and Take a Free Ride." What makes this song (which was written and performed by an obvious demoniac) different when it is performed by a "Christian" band as opposed to being performed by a secular band? Obviously there is no difference at all in its effects. To declare that there is a difference based on one's tastes is to say that the a lemon or an apple changes its qualities, effects, and identity when it is eaten by a Christian as opposed to being eaten by a secular person.     It is making a case for taste rather than identity by qualities and effects. The music has the same effects, but the difference is that one person rejects it based on their spiritual sense perception and another perons accepts it. 

We should also understand that Satan knows that when we are not trained by the Word of God and the Holy Spirit to recognize them, we are susceptible to his devices.  The Apostle Paul said as much in the following scripture, (2 Cor 2:10-11 NKJV) "Now whom you forgive anything, I also forgive. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ, {11} lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices."

Accepting the practice of adopting the aberrant music styles of the demonic realm and using them for that which is exclusively reserved for righteousness defies scriptural sense perception. This makes us susceptible to the devices of Satan.  In the first place, it is impossible to effectively isolate the music from its effects by removing the musicians since that is how the music was formed in the first place. Can anyone effectively argue that the rays of the sun would become softer in temperature and brilliance if one will attribute them as coming from the moon instead? The music didn't arrange itself into the various melodic rhythms, beats and words that became known as Rock Music, it was arranged by something or someone. God certainly did not arrange it into the form called Rock music because God is incapable of the type of deviate emotions needed to form such a style of music. It is an indisputable and irrevocable fact that Rock musicians arranged Rock music into its form. To deny this fact is like denying the lemon came from the lemon tree. It would be comparable to saying the lemon is in fact a lemon, but it didn't come from the lemon tree, that some other tree brought it into being, and it isn't sour when eaten by apple-lovers.  Some "Christian" Rock music proponents declare that secular Rock music came from God. This would be like saying God created the lemon directly without the tree. God created the tree and the tree bore the lemon in response to the God's Divine Order in the tree.  God also created secular rock musicians, but they rebelled against Him and perverted music for their god, Satan.

Secular Musicians, who are created by God, appropriated music, also created by God, and fashioned it into their own special form. The problem is that the people are different than any other living thing in God's kingdom in that they are capable of defying Divine Order and causing Deviate Order. Deviate Order is the entire purpose of Satan. Divine and Deviate Order define what is good and bad, what is righteous and what is wicked, what is of God and what is of Satan. No one has a list of things in Deviate Order because that would be impossible, yet you can know what Deviate Order is by understanding Divine Order.  Spiritual sense perception causes us to understand God's mind toward things and activities not mentioned in the Bible.   By studying and understanding the didactic scriptures, we have senses trained by the Holy Spirit to know the difference between good and evil. By example, once we know what a lemon, is one can recognize a lemon that has mutated into some other quality. It may be a different color or shape or even taste like something totally different than a lemon or all of the above and that helps us to judge it as not a lemon. If the tree that produced it continued to produce mutated lemons that were not fit for consumption, we would cut it down and plant a good tree in its place.  Maybe we would start a freak show and advertise a new fruit, never before identified.

Removing the offending lyrics from Rock music is only part of the problem. When you remove the offending rhythm and beat you remove its negative effect on the human body and soul. Again proponents of Rock music would counter by denying the rhythm and beat has any negative effect on the human body and soul. This would argue from a premise that Rock musicians designed their form of music to be conducive to morality and godliness.  Stating that these secular musicians, totally devoid of the Holy Spirit, followers of the god of this world, had no power to stir and bring to fruition the base passions of the flesh  would be stating the ludicrous. A godly man wrote the hymn, "Amazing Grace." Nothing in that song makes a true Christian want to slow dance with a partner in a sexually arousing manner. Handel's "Messiah" does not elicit sexual gyrations and violent behavior from those who listen to it. There are modern Christian songs that cause a person to praise God and think of nothing but worshipping Him, yet some "Christian" music causes the flesh to stir and react exactly as the flesh of lost, rebellious, people in the world system. How can this be of God?

Consider the following scriptures:

I do not believe there will be popular Christian songs today written and performed in the same style of "Amazing Grace" or Handel's "Messiah," but I believe the same surrendered human spirit and Spirit of God will be evident in modern Christian musicians who are willing to be used by God. This is the connectivity that produces perpetuity in Christian music although the styles may change and the music diversifies. It is the Spirit of God with the spirit of man, corporate creativity in Divine Order that produces spiritual music fit for the temple of God, which temple we are. Borrowing music that was designed by the carnal mind or producing music that is based on such an arrangement is patently disordered and disharmonious with God's word. Why would someone want to do such a thing? The answers Christian Rock proponents give fall into the following categories.

We are trying to win the lost. The lost will not listen to traditional church music, so we are reaching them with music they understand.

The younger generation needs their own music. The younger generation is turned off by traditional church music.

Each of these two positions is fatally flawed in its basic premise. The first position presupposes God chose music to win the lost. Such a premise is indefensible with the word of God. God clearly describes how He chooses to reach the lost. By God's method very little of the World System can invade or be incorporated into His chosen methods without being immediately recognized as such.

(James 3:13-17 NKJV) "Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. {14} But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. {15} This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. {16} For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. {17} But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy."

Also, the premise that music is chosen by God to reach the lost is riddled with a multitude of inconsistencies with Gods word in doctrine and purpose.

(1 Cor 1:17-21 NKJV) "For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect. {18} For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. {19} For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent." {20} Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? {21} For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe."

We must also consider that Christ never used the things of the world to reach the world and we cannot even find in the Scriptures where He used holy music. Jesus went to where the sinner dwelt, but never abdicated His righteousness and He did not bring a Roman musical group playing Roman music. In light of these things, we have to consider that God would never turn to satanic sources to make up what some declare is lacking in His kingdom. We must recognize and admit that this constancy in the scriptures insures righteousness will always be evident in true Christianity in all their endeavors.

The second position is that the younger generation needs their own music. The idea that the younger generation needs their own music is one thing, but to then determine this means they should turn to the world system for their music is stepping away from the premise. I agree the younger generation needs their own music style, yet I totally disagree that this means the church should adopt the demonic music styles of the world system. The church has always been creative in writing songs that appealed to the younger generation whose heart hungered and thirsted for God.  I find nothing in Christian history that reveals the music of the church should be designed to reach lost young people who are repulsed by Biblical Christianity.  The younger Christians who are submitted to God and anointed by Him can be enabled and equipped to write and perform songs that appeal to their peers. None of this concludes that we should then find out what the devil is doing, then go and do likewise.

One of the largest churches in America built its attendance on the opinions of the World System. The church leaders went from door to door to find out what the secular, lost, people wanted in a church, then they designed a church based on those opinions. The lost attend this church, not because they are hungry for Jesus, but because they are not convicted and because they are comfortable there.

It appears as if most Christian music today has been formed by the same principle. A generation of religious young people listened to secular music and enjoyed it very much. They were drawn into the secular music culture by their peers in the World System. When many of these young people decided to be a part of the church they didn't want to quit listening to the secular music or be rejected by their peers in the world. As a result, they fashioned "Christian" versions of the music using the excuse the younger generation needed their own music. Then the excuse that they were appealing to the world with this style of music to win them to Christ was added. It is difficult to conceive of the world wanting anything as diluted as "Christian" Rock music. I know that I did not desire any religious music when I was in the world no matter how much it sounded like what I normally listened to.  Rather, I was repulsed by such attempts at worldliness that fell short of providing the sound that I desired.  When I was wicked, I wanted real wickedness, not a substitute.

In conclusion I will say that Christians are a peculiar people in the sense that they are uniquely God's children. There are numerous instances where God judged and chastised Israel for breaking with His will and adopting the practices of the nations about them. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego kept their uniqueness at the risk of their lives and God intervened supernaturally.

The uniqueness of God's people continued into the New Testament era. God never chose His people to follow the path prescribed by fashions, fads and other vogues in society. Instead there is an amazing display of the creativeness and uniqueness of His people throughout the New Testament Church. The men and women that He calls are unique and adapt His unique methods to preach, teach and build His kingdom. The Bible is a unique book. Although Satan has attempted to copy this book it still has the uniqueness of giving hope, strength, assurance in the midst of trials, building and binding our faith together with other believers, imparting wisdom and understanding and so much more that I cannot list here. It is also the gospel of Jesus Christ who is the hope of all mankind.

In fact, all of the works of God that is recorded in the Bible are unique and reveal the awesomeness of His creative nature. God is never recorded as having taken an evil perversion of what He created as good and holy for the purpose of building His kingdom. Indeed, God has allowed that which is evil to afflict His rebellious people, but if God were to turn to the evil realm for help in ministering to His kingdom, He would be admitting that what He created was not good enough, that He was less than perfect, and that Satan had a better idea. There is no communion of light with darkness.

Practically the whole case for the use of satanic music styles rests on the presumption one can Christianize demonic music by changing the words and in some cases not change the words, just the performers. If this were true, then the effect of the music, on people who submit their spirits to it, would also change. In fact, this does not happen. The same actions are evident in the religious performers and listeners who borrow the styles of secular music as are evident in the secular performers and listeners. Both have Mosh pits, head banging, crowd surfing, image mutilation, symbols of narcissism and nihilism, not to mention the foreboding symbolisms of other satanic spirits that permeate the secular Rock music realm. Both the religious and the secular performers have the appearances of rebellion, the angry scowls, the arrogance, the evil gyrations, and unfettered, fleshly, emotionalism. There are no images of Christ-likeness in CR performers, but emulation's of the antics and appearances that are the result of tortured, twisted, natures, possessed by demon spirits.

Eph. 2:1-3 says we were all once like this since we were by nature children of wrath, walked according to the course of the world and the spirit of Satan. When God changed us we became a unique people, called out of darkness into His marvelous light. He declares we are spiritual Israel (Romans 11) and as such we should come out from the world and be separate (Hebrews 9) and do not develop love for the world or what it contains (1Jn.3).

I was deep in sin and totally obsessed with music. When He saved me I wanted to change on the outside as I did on the inside. It never occurred to me that I should sing the foul music of my past life or "Christianize" songs by changing the words. I had enough battles to fight without turning back to the past and picking up old baggage. Paul said, (1 Th 5:22 NKJV) "Abstain from every form of evil," and Peter said, (1 Pet 2:11 NKJV) "Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul."

What CR proponents declare is that we should take satanic music, sing it and commit the same evil actions as those who are seduced by Satan. Nadab and Abihu were cremated for trying to worship God as the heathens worshipped their false gods (Lev 10:1-2 NKJV) "Then Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it, put incense on it, and offered profane fire before the LORD, which He had not commanded them. {2} So fire went out from the LORD and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.").

The "Christian" music industry is polluted with the flesh and insinuated with satanic influence. There is little or no mention of Jesus in the music and no convicting factor. Much of it does not make one want to worship God or change their lives to be more like Jesus. This is clearly evident in the lives and actions of those submitted to the music.

Modern Christian music is not in the same category as the Christian music in times of revival. Those who promote and perform it will not submit to proper pastoral oversight or even to scriptural criticism for that matter. There is no escaping that there is not one scripture that validates CR as an authorized tool of God. All one has left is to authorize and validate it themselves in spite of evidence to the contrary. Unless someone can present convincing evidence that does validate it, those attempting to convince us it is valid must continue using intimidation and peer pressure to convince weak Christians.   What does God's word declare?

(1 John 4:1-3 NKJV) "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. {2} By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, {3} and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world."

More than words are implicated here. The Strong's Concordance lists this as the Greek word translated into confesses:

3670. homologeo, hom-ol-og-eh'-o; from a comp. of the base of G3674 and G3056; to assent, i.e. covenant, acknowledge:--con- (pro-) fess, confession is made, give thanks, promise.

God's words says; (Prov 3:6 NKJV) "In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths."

Just speaking some Christian phrases or quoting a few scriptures does not mean one is of God. There are many evil men who have done this and deceived millions. In all our ways we must confess Christ Jesus as Lord of our lives. Then we develop a reverential awe, a fear, which is the beginning of wisdom, in a true "confession" of faith in Christ. There is also a holiness and a separateness that identifies us as Christians. Finally, there is an abhorrence of all that is evil or appears as evil.

All these things seem to be missing from the lives of the Christian rockers and many other modern Christian musicians. Instead there is a cavalier attitude, disrespect for people who want to live righteously, arrogance toward holiness, and a careless handling of the word of God.

I pray you will come to an understanding if you are involved in any form of music that is borrowed from the World System and dressed up as true Christian music. I pray that you will carefully consider all that I have said and that you will inspect the music you intend to take into your spiritual system.