the purpose driven music paradigm - Escape Babylon's Demons

delighting to us, but not to Him? Isaiah 66:1-5 teaches that the Lord doesn’t delight
in mainstream worship claiming to glorify the Lord if that worship includes elements
displeasing to him. It also reveals that the persecuted minority cast outside
mainstream worship will be in joy when the Lord appears while the mainstream
claiming to be glorifying the Lord will be ashamed at his appearing.
Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that
ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? For all those things hath mine hand made, and
all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of
a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that
sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if h e offered swine’s
blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and
their soul delighteth in their abominations. I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their
fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they
did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted no t. Hear the word of the LORD, ye
that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name’s sake, said,
Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
Personal background surrounding the issue
My church background is diverse involving churches in the northeastern and
southeastern U.S. I have been active in Free Methodist, Independent Baptist, Young
Life, Businessman Lunch Bible Studies, Home Churches, “Willow Creek Seeker Style
Churches”, Independent Evangelical, Southern Baptist, Presbyterian (PCA),
Fellowship Bible and Calvary Chapel churches since I first became a Christian at 22
years of age in 1979.
Educationally, I’ve earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and have worked
professionally in Industrial Engineering and in teaching middle/high school in both
secular and Christian Schools.
After completing 26 graduate credit hours of study while enrolled in Columbia Biblical
Seminary’s Master of Divinity program, I backslid in my life with Christ for a few years.
My faith was miraculously and mercifully restored by the Lord in 2001. I believe that
the power of secular instrumental music was one of the factors Satan used to lead
me astray as a professing Christian.
Before I was a Christian I was severely addicted to Burton Cummings and the Guess
Who. From 1974 until 2000, I bought many hundreds of pop, soft & hard rock, jazz,
blues, soul and vocal recordings. I have seen many live concerts including K.I.S.S.,
Alice Cooper, Chicago, Paul McCartney, Burton Cummings, The Guess Who, Doobie
Brothers, Seals & Crofts, Outlaws, Hootie & the Blowfish, Sammy Hagar, John
Mellancamp, Neil Young, Tim McGraw, Martina McBride and B.J. Thomas among
others. It was a B.J. Thomas Christian album named “Home Where I Belong” that
introduced me to Jesus Christ and Christianity. Throughout the 1980’s into the early