Charisma News, which is published for the sort of people who honestly believe Oral Roberts could channel a mysterious cosmic force that cured people, asks a vital question: Is Worship Music Lucifer’s Next Great Battleground?
As one who lives much of my life with headphones on, including as I write this article, with anointed worship music being pumped into my spirit night and day, this is a challenging message to deliver. It’s challenging due to the fact that I highly revere the anointing that rests on so much of today’s and yesterday’s worship music. It disturbs me that such an article would even be necessary.
Ho-hum. The correct answer is … Yes. When people go to church and listen to bright, up-tempo music, and leave feeling optimistic about the world and their place in it, Lucifer’s design is abetted.
Listen, for instance, to this great staple of Christian worship, the song in every church organists repertoire, Shall We Gather At The River?.
Is that not bleak, dreary, joyless, painful? Does it not make you want to throw yourself in the river and drown? Mission accomplished.