the purpose driven music paradigm - Escape Babylon's Demons

will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name
written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it. And unto the angel of the church in
Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his
feet are like fine brass; I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and
thy works; and the last to be more than the first. Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee,
because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to
seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. And I gave
her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. Behold, I wil l cast her into a bed, and
them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. And I w ill
kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins
and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works. (Revelation 2:12 -23)
Summary of doctrinal chapters 1-3
Chapters 1-3 have presented some characteristics of the body of Christ from
scripture. They have particularly focused on those characteristics which relate closely
to the issue of the removal of the separation between secular and sacred music in
the church. I have taken for granted that Christians should increasingly manifest love,
joy, peace, patience, kindness and brotherly love in their interpersonal relationships
within the body of Christ seeking to do all things, even church discipline when
necessary, in God’s protective and restorative love.
Balanced biblical love doesn’t exclude anger when the anger is an unselfish
response towards injustice and hardness of heart in others. An example of such
hardness of heart is the selfish attitude of church leaders causing division and
offenses in the body of Christ by advocating the integration of the idol of secular
music, especially rock music, into church life.
The commands concerning interpersonal behavior within the body of Christ assume
that associating believers aren’t currently practicing sexual sin, covetousness,
idolatry, drunkenness, unethical financial dealings, verbal abusiveness, or departure
from teaching sound biblical doctrine. Paul taught Christ’s followers to reprove and
disassociate themselves from professing Christians with moral character of this
nature. (1 Corinthians 5:9-13; Ephesians 5:1-12; 1 Timothy 6:3-10; Revelation 2:20; 2 John 9-10)
The church is to mildly warn them of the seriousness of their sin, prove them wrong
from scripture as necessary, and call them to repentance before disassociating from
them for refusing to listen. (Ephesians 5:11; Matthew 18:15-20) The church is not to
kindly, patiently and forgivingly tolerate rebellion against the commandments of God
among it’s professing members. It’s the morally neutral irritating personality
differences, ingrained habits and unintentional faults in others that we are to put up
with patiently, kindly and forgivingly. Any church that isn’t functioning according to the
biblical pattern established in this chapter isn’t a biblical church. The Lord calls the
leadership of unbiblical churches to repentance and his sincere disciples to leave
rather than infiltrate unbiblical churches as change agents.