JACK SCHAAP MENTORS EMERGING RAPPER CHURCH and CCM’S SLIPPERY SLOPE

Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead,

nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

Leviticus 19:28 (King James Bible)

13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers,

transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

14 And no marvel; for Satan himself

is transformed into an angel of light.

15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

2 Corinthians 11: 13-15 (King James Bible)

JACK SCHAAP MENTORS EMERGING RAPPER CHURCH (Friday Church News Notes, August 20, 2010, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 866-295-4143 end_of_the_skype_highlighting) -

Jack Schaap, pastor of First Baptist Church, Hammond, Indiana, recently praised a raunchy emerging rapper church and claimed to be its mentor. The church, the Richmond Outreach Center, is pastored by Geronimo Aguilar. Schaap said Aguilar has been attending Pastor’s School for 10 years and was preceded there by his street biker father, Phil Aguilar, who, according to Schaap, “followed Brother Hyles to a T.”

Phil’s MySpace site features demonic-looking pictures of he and his friends decked out in their biker regalia, including Nazi helmet symbols. If there is such a thing as being “conformed to the world” (Romans 12:2), Phil has mastered it. Phil produces a line of clothing called SoldierMade, which is advertised with profanities and immodest models.

Schaap says that Geronimo sought his counsel when founding the ROC in 2001 and meets with him every year for a day or two of private counsel. “He and I are very dear friends.” Schaap praises the ROC as the “sixth fastest growing church in America, running 4,000 every week.” Schaap told his congregation that Aguilar “knows where to find how to build a church.”

That’s the bottom line for Schaap. His is an unscriptural, idolatrous pragmatism that worships “results.” The results can be obtained by side-show promotionalism or by CCM and the contemporary no-standards, judge-not philosophy. Apparently it’s all the same to Schaap. The worship leader at ROC is a rapper dude who goes by the moniker “Chill” Aguilar, and the “worship service” features raunchy performances by the congregation’s rap dancers.

Chill’s web site praises filthy rockers such as Korn, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Prince, Morrissey, and Kid Rock. We are thankful for every soul at ROC that has truly been born again and set free of drugs and alcohol, but they have not given up their raunchy music and sensual dancing, their immodest, unisex clothing styles, or their “be cool, live and let live” philosophy, and the result is a worldly confusion. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjVZGUWRJgA

CCM’S SLIPPERY SLOPE (Friday Church News Notes, August 20, 2010, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 866-295-4143 end_of_the_skype_highlighting) -

The following is excerpted from Graham West’s tbbcmem@aapt.net.au excellent presentation “The Rhythm of Rock,” which is available as an e-video download from Way of Life Literature.

“Dan Lucarini, a former contemporary worship leader, warns that the rock rhythm affects us like a musical drug. ‘Though it may be subtly introduced, the listener soon develops a craving for it. The flesh demands more and more, just like an addict, and there is no turning back’ (Why I Left the Contemporary Christian Music Movement). This sets up an inevitable trend away from traditional church music. In chapter 17 of his book, Dan writes, ‘In reality, what happens over time is a steady slide down the slippery slope away from all traditional music into the latest, edgiest contemporary styles.’

I like Dan’s illustration of a slippery slope. I can remember when we were children. We had this particular park where we would go, and it had a very steep grassy slope. And we all had our pieces of cardboard, and with these we would slide down at our own risk. I was probably the littlest of all the kids, and for me it was a pretty scary thing. I remember when you first started off, if you really wanted to stop yourself you could. But if you didn’t stop yourself immediately, then pretty soon you would reach the point of no return, and like it or not you would wind up at the bottom of that hill. That’s exactly what it’s like when a conservative church once begins to dabble in CCM. Like it or not, they will wind up at the bottom of that hill, and they will get there at an alarming rate.

Whether you understand it or not, once you begin listening to soft rock, immediately you begin sliding down that slippery slope to the more aggressive forms of rock. This is because the rock ballad begins to orientate the whole way of perceiving music: around rhythm and away from melody. Your musical interests will change.

The hymns and songs of the past that seemed such excellent vehicles for worship will suddenly sound dull in comparison to your newly acquired tastes. It’s a progression I’ve seen over and over again in the lives of Christians. It’s like a downward spiral. It happens in to individuals; it happens to families; it happens to churches. The trend is really all that we would expect, because people are only following their CCM idols as they in turn faithfully follow the world and its trend of ever-increasing musical degradation.

In the past 50 years in the West, as our culture has become progressively more fleshly, the musical focus of society has been increasingly dominated by complex, sensual rhythm. So here we are in the 21st century with rap, the world’s number-two-selling music format, almost completely devoid of any melody whatsoever. Over time the musical ear has become disorientated. Once it was attuned to melody, but the addictive, sensual rhythms of rock & roll have carried us swiftly down that slippery slope to the place where our ears are now tuned to rhythm. The church, sadly, has followed this same corrupt trend.”

When "Christian music" is piped in from Hell!

Is Contemporary Christian Music "Christian"?

One has to bear in mind that this is a

QUALIFIED MUSIC EVANGELIST,

who well knows of what he speaks!

BereanBeacon | March 01, 2007

Rock in Russia? - http://hosted.homeserver.com/warnever...
Evangelist Ives demonstrates that there is a message in the composition of music.

Mrs. Fay Dodson of Phoster Club passed this interesting letter to us.The Unregistered Churches of Russia originally wrote this letter to churches in the USA.

Dear Christian Friends, For thirty years we have suffered intense persecution, and now freedom is bringing another great harm to our churches. This damage is coming from the Christians in America who are sending rock music and evangelists accompanied by rock bands. Our young people do not attend these meetings because we have all committed not to participate in secular entertainment. This is a great burden on our hearts. Many come with Bible in hand and rock music. We do not know what words to use in urging that this be stopped. We abhor all Christian rosk music coming into our country. Rock music has nothing in common with ministry or service to God. We are very, very against Christian Americans bringing to our country this false image of 'ministry' to God. We need true spiritual bread, not false cakes. It is true that rock music attracts people to the church, but not to Godly living. We personally were in prison for 15 years and 11 years for Christ's sake. We were not allowed to have Christian music, but rock music was used as a weapon against us day and night to destroy our souls. We could only resist with much prayer and fasting. Now, we have a time of more openness, and we are no longer taken to prison. However, now it is Christians from America who damage our souls. We do not allow this music in our churches, but they rent big stadiums and infect teenagers and adults with their rock music. We, the leadership and congregations of the Unregistered Union of Churches, former Persecuted Church, have made an agreement to not allow rock music in our churches. We urge you to join with us and we advise you to remove rock music from America, and certainly do not bring it to our country. Do not desecrate our teenagers with it. Even the unbelievers recognize it is unholy music and they cannot understand how American Christians can be so much like the world. We can give you the conclusion that after Russian unbelievers have attended these rock concerts where Christ's Word was preached, the people were very disappointed and disillusioned with Christianity. We call this music from hell. We urge all Americans to stop giving money for the organization of such concerts in Russia. We want only traditional Christian music in our churches. This is the unanimous decision of all our leaders.

Signed,
Peter Peters

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