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the purpose driven music paradigm - Escape Babylon's Demons

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People aren’t targets to be manipulated by human tools<br />

People aren’t targets to be persuaded to receive <strong>the</strong> Lord Jesus Christ through <strong>the</strong><br />

use of human tools in human wisdom. Conversion from serving idols to Christ is a<br />

supernatural, spiritual work of <strong>the</strong> Holy Spirit beyond mere intellectual enlightenment,<br />

psychological conditioning and healing. (1 Corinthians 1:2-5; 2 Corinthians 1:12; 2<br />

Corinthians 4:1-5)<br />

The church isn’t to show favoritism toward target groups<br />

It’s not God’s will for his church to follow <strong>the</strong> teachings of or to exercise favoritism<br />

towards any particular individual, group or subculture inside or outside <strong>the</strong> body of<br />

Christ based upon external human criteria. Such criteria includes but isn’t limited<br />

exclusively to things like cultural acceptability or popularity, age, appearance, income<br />

level, education level, numerical growth or financial success. Deliberately choosing a<br />

secular style of <strong>music</strong> favored by a particular target group of people in order to<br />

determine <strong>the</strong> kind of people that will attend your church is a subtle form of<br />

favoritism. (James 2:1-9)<br />

The work of ministry is spiritual warfare fought with spiritual tools<br />

According to scripture, <strong>the</strong> work of <strong>the</strong> pastor is spiritual, not psychological warfare.<br />

The weapons or tools designed by <strong>the</strong> Lord to be employed by <strong>the</strong> pastor and o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

members of <strong>the</strong> body of Christ in <strong>the</strong>ir wrestling match against <strong>the</strong> strategic, cunning<br />

methods of <strong>the</strong> devil are spiritual, not carnal. They are unrelated to unregenerate<br />

human nature. The devil’s kosmokrators, or hierarchical organization of supernatural<br />

demonic beings, possess intellectual and spiritual power superior to mere human<br />

intelligence and ingenuity. Because of this, <strong>the</strong> war against <strong>the</strong> darkness of this world<br />

isn’t truly accomplished through human excellence employing tools like secular<br />

<strong>music</strong>, organizational psychology, business marketing and systems integration. The<br />

tools of <strong>the</strong> body of Christ in it’s service to <strong>the</strong>ir Lord are personal faith in and<br />

obedience to <strong>the</strong> word of God, <strong>the</strong> spoken word of God and prayer. (2 Corinthians 10:4;<br />

Ephesians 6:10-18; 2 Timothy 2:15)<br />

Satan’s counter ministry of false teaching<br />

The ministry of speaking <strong>the</strong> truth in love is critical to <strong>the</strong> spiritual health of <strong>the</strong><br />

church because Satan’s ministers transform <strong>the</strong>mselves as angels of light in order to<br />

deceive <strong>the</strong> church and cause quarrels. They lead professing Christian teachers to<br />

teach false doctrine and misrepresent <strong>the</strong> true character of Jesus Christ. Satan plants<br />

tares (self deceived and false professing Christians) within <strong>the</strong> true professing body of Christ<br />

in order to corrupt <strong>the</strong> good behavior and values of true believers.

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