Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? pt. 7
If you look at part five, which was posted late Sunday night or early Monday morning, I have the links to parts one, two, three, and four, and yesterday I posted six. You’ll have to do the heavy lifting of scrolling until I get links at the top of a post. I’ll also review my […]
Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? pt. 6
If you look at part five, which was posted yesterday, I have the links to parts one, two, three, and four, for your convenience. <><><><><><><><><><><><><> I’ve covered several steps for arguing for the proper music for your edification, including your use in spiritual warfare. God wants to be worshiped and He won’t be worshiped with […]
Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? pt. 5
Parts One, Two, Three, Four I started some instruction on how to argue the music issue. Here are my first points. One, we are to prove all things (1 Thessalonians 5:21). Two, music has meaning. Three, as an addendum to two — since music is a means of communication, it can communicate moral or immoral. […]
How Long Were the Original Manuscripts Around? Considerations on the NT Autographa and Early NT Apographa from Scripture and Patristic Writers, part 2
III. New Testament Witness to the Transmission of the Autographa In accord with Christ’s prayer (John 17:8), the saints and the churches immediately received the books of the New Testament as they were given by inspiration. The seven churches recognized the Revelation of John as Scripture immediately upon receipt of the book (Revelation 1:11), the […]
Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? pt. 4
My Music History I didn’t grow up with the music I believe is fit for worship. I grew up in Southern Indiana with country. I never heard sermons about music — our church wasn’t that type of church. Songs I remember from church: Get All Excited (and it was sung about like this) and Turn […]
Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? pt. 3
This will be short lived, but I wanted to offer some links of rebuttals to those demanding the heads of rap rejecters on a platter. I don’t know the man, but D. G. Hart — Very good here. I too liked the comment of one in the comment section asking why “gospel” is being used […]
Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop? pt. 2
Part One. It’s never a good time for a lot of things, but I’ve stepped into this hip-hop manure pile anyway, and it has been enlightening. I did not know the gooey depths of difference between me (us) and evangelicals. They are living in their own universe on this, which isn’t God’s. They come from […]
Proving the Music Issue in the Worship War: Is there Holy Hip Hop?
Last week in evangelicalism, a sizeable controversy arose over a panel discussion at the national conference for The National Center for Family-Integrated Churches (NCFIC). The conference was on the Worship of God and the session was a six man panel answering, “What about Holy Hip Hop?” The reason I knew about it was because Scott […]
How Long Were the Original Manuscripts Around? Considerations on the NT Autographa and Early NT Apographa from Scripture and Patristic Writers, part 1
I. Scriptural Presuppositions Scripture teaches the verbal, plenary preservation of the verbally, plenarily inspired autographa (Psalm 12:6-7), the availability of the preserved text to every generation of the people of God (Isaiah 59:21), who, institutionalized in Israel in the Old Testament era and in the church during the age of grace, are responsible for […]
The Kaufman, Kafkaesque Performance “Art”/Hoax That Is Most of Professing Christianity Today, pt. 2
Part One Part one of this got little attention, let alone little love, when I think it is stating things as they are. I’m not going to go back to the Kaufman and Kafka analogy — you’ll have to read part one to get that — but I’m going to be a glutton for punishment, […]