the purpose driven music paradigm - Escape Babylon's Demons

faithfully communicate the pure, simple direct meaning of every passage of scripture
and still fulfill the purpose driven ministry paradigm. This is why some purpose driven
pastors give lip service to or downplay the importance of doctrine in the church. In
spite of the fact that these churches grow numerically and people feel good about
themselves because upbeat music is deliberately programmed to create positive
emotions in people, the reality is that downplaying doctrine biblically dumbs down
and spiritually undernourishes the church. Many professing Christians are led to a
false sense of security in their relationship with God by the positive emotions created
within them as a result of the tonality of upbeat worship music.
Purpose Driven Church lingo
Another tool of the purpose driven paradigm helping remove the godly separation
between the secular world and the church is purpose driven church lingo. Purpose
driven church lingo replaces biblical terminology when biblical terminology is
offensive to the self-esteem of the lost. An example of this is that the people the
bible calls pagans, heathen, lost or antichrist, the church now calls seekers or
unchurched. What the bible calls the world, the church now calls the culture. The use
of essential biblical words like repent and sin is eliminated, or minimized. Lip service
is given to the Bible as being the sole authority for living. In the corporate world and
playing field of the purpose driven church, what really counts has falsely become
what really works in fulfilling the purpose of reaching the targeted seeker and
fulfilling the complex multi-acred dream common to the purpose driven pastor.
Many pastors today live as enemies of God, for it’s written:
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?
whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. (James 4:4)
It isn’t my intention to judge the motives of those involved in purpose driven ministry.
In my opinion, some purpose driven pastors are sincere in their concern for reaching
the lost and building the body of Christ. There are others, however, who aren’t biblical
pastors. These are the false prophets Jesus warned his followers of in Matthew 7:13-
15. They’re the ravenous wolves disguised as sheep who today function as religious
CEO’S fleecing the flock while justifying whatever secular methods they use because
these methods increase fan attendance, gate profits and help fulfill their dream
vision.
Why focus on the purpose driven music paradigm in contending for the faith? As the
guru of the Purpose Driven Paradigm, Rick Warren, correctly says in apparent
ignorance of the potential power secular music has for evil:
" a song can often touch people in a way that a sermon can't. Music can by-pass intellectual barriers
and take the message straight to the heart."