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Russ Kersten: Let us pray. Our heavenly father, many of us have known, admired, loved these men standing on this stage for decades. Some of them have been among your most powerful workers for getting things done here. And, Father, they feel the need to repent. They feel the horror of division we all do. I want each of us here to do our best to meet with, to talk with, to talk through, whatever problems there may be for indeed some of the problems consist of simply not liking this contemporary worship. Father, just, just help us not to approach anybody or anything with the wrong attitude because so much of your Word is all about an attitude of love and forgiveness, so be with us as we struggle along. Father, we know we are a room full of sinners. There is nobody in this house today that is perfect and just help us see the way to go. We ask in Jesus’ name, Amen.
Ben Jones: Amen.
In April 1990, a Christian named Stephen Maphosah left Zimbabwe, Africa, and traveled for his first visit to the United States. When he turned on a Christian radio station and listened to the music he was shocked:
"I am very sensitive to the beat in music, because when I was a boy, I played the drums in our village worship rituals. The beat that I played on the drum was to get the demon spirits into the people. When I turned on a Christian radio station in the U.S., I was shocked. The same beat that I used to play to call up evil spirits is in the music I heard on the Christian station."
What the Bible Says About Contemporary Christian Rock Music, 1990
From the article: The Pied Piper of Spiritualism by By Dirk Anderson
Full article linked from: http://www.ConcernedMembers.com/madison