This video brought joy to my heart. When my eyes fell on the words below describing it, I cried. The American church has a thing or two to learn from brothers and sisters in other nations!
Berean Beacon:
Mrs. Fay Dodson of Phoster Club passed this interesting letter to us.The Unregistered Churches of Russia originally wrote this letter to churches in the USA.
Dear Christian Friends, For thirty years we have suffered intense persecution, and now freedom is bringing another great harm to our churches. This damage is coming from the Christians in America who are sending rock music and evangelists accompanied by rock bands. Our young people do not attend these meetings because we have all commited not to participate in secular entertainment. This is a great burden on our hearts. Many come with Bible in hand and rock music. We do not know what words to use in urging that this be stopped. We abhor all Christian rosk music coming into our country. Rock music has nothing in common with ministry or service to God. We are very, very against Christian Americans bringing to our country this false image of ‘ministry’ to God. We need true spiritual bread, not false cakes. It is true that rock music attracts people to the church, but not to Godly living. We personally were in prison for 15 years and 11 years for Christ’s sake. We were not allowed to have Christian music, but rock music was used as a weapon against us day and night to destroy our souls. We could only resist with much prayer and fasting. Now, we have a time of more openness, and we are no longer taken to prison. However, now it is Christians from America who damage our souls. We do not allow this music in our churches, but they rent big stadiums and infect teenagers and adults with their rock music. We, the leadership and congregations of the Unregistered Union of Churches, former Presecuted Church, have made an agreement to not allow rock music in our churches. We urge you to join with us and we advise you to remove rock music from America, and certianly do not bring it to our country. Do not desecrate our teenagers with it. Even the unbelievers recognize it is unholy music and they cannot understand how American Christians can be so much like the world. We can give you the conclusion that after Russian unbelievers have attended these rock concerts where Christ’s Word was preached, the people were very disappointed and disillusioned with Christianity. We call this music from hell. We urge all Americians to stop giving money for the organization of such concerts in Russia. We want only traditional Christian music in our churches. This is the unanimous decision of all our leaders.
Signed,
Peter Peters Vasilij Ryzhuk
Head of the Unregistered Elder, Unregistered
Union of Churches Union of Churches
Oct 21, 2012 @ 22:57:08
I knew it! As a professional secular musician for 30 years ive always felt there was something wrong with 4/4 time. The beat is just wrong for christian music. I cannot abide christian rock.
Oct 23, 2012 @ 12:27:43
Gary, I can’t say I see anything wrong with 4/4 time. Would you like to elaborate? Yeah, I can’t stand today’s christian” rock either. In fact, I can’t think of anyone who I can say I like musically. They all sound like they are starting the song off with the same few chords. Blah, blah, blah. Boring and NOT musically artistic at all.
Oct 22, 2012 @ 01:34:28
I couldn’t agree more! It seems the good old gospel hymns have been replaced by drums, electric guitars, rock music. I so miss the hymns that use to be so abundant, we need to take heed and listen to the Russian Christians. May God bless them!
Oct 23, 2012 @ 12:29:47
Lenora, I agree. Many of the hymns had great meaning. Today’s lyrics are so empty. Not to say musically, it just stinks. IMHO.
Oct 22, 2012 @ 13:43:24
My cable TV shows Ten so called Christian stations I flip through them all have some type of rock bands some Rave concerts lights flashing, loud ,young people jumping around as if mad. The lyrics I cant understand but the actions I can its like a drunken orgy!
Jesus said for us to teach others about Him not this nonsense!
Oct 23, 2012 @ 12:32:38
bobbystuff, you got that right, brother! I used to think I was just an old fogey who thought like this. But uh uh, after being unchurched for a a while, it has become easier to see. I guess if you aren’t sitting under it, getting a stready diet of it, it becomes easy to see. I don’t think I could even go into a typical church setting today and actually “worship.”
Oct 23, 2012 @ 05:08:31
This story breaks my heart deeply I have felt this way for years when I first began to see churches behaving more like the world with so called christian rock music and now on the christian televisions stations act more and more like Hollywood than Godlywood I cant stand rock period and Christians are told in the word of God that we are not to conform to the world but to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. So called Christian rock sounds religious but the spirit behind it comes from the devil himself there is no anointing or spirit of God operating through Christian rock if you do not believe this just watch when Christian rock is being sung or played look at the people who are listening to this music watch how they sway and move their bodies in a fleshly worldly manner the spirit of God is not manifesting through the flesh the bible says that God is a spirit and they that worship God must worship him in Spirit and in truth. The bible says no flesh shall glory in God’s sight. There is a flesh spirit, a godly spirit and a demon spirit which spirit operates when Christian rock is sung think about it.
Oct 24, 2012 @ 13:29:14
Clarissa, I agree. Also, many call some music “anointed” when it is not.
Oct 24, 2012 @ 20:40:34
It seems as if the majority of America’s churches had grown weary of waiting upon the Lord, so they created a golden calf to worship – their hypnotic scripture twisting music. They wanted to draw the crowds and make them feel at home, while they fed them another gospel. Now they want to export this to those who have really known persecution? I pray the Lord will use these Russian faithful ones to teach the American churches what REAL Christianity is. God bless and keep them safe.
Oct 29, 2012 @ 17:01:30
Geri, I so agree with you. It will be interesting to see which songs the American church will sing if/when we become as persecuted as out brothers and sisters in other nations. Somehow the cutesy little ditties just won’t cut it for me!
Oct 27, 2012 @ 13:04:29
I appreciate some of the newer contemporary Christian music as well as the traditional hymns. My favourite hymnal is “Hymns Ancient and Modern” (Church of England). I wish more Churches would sing these classic hymns of faith. God bless you & your efforts to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Matt. 6:33
Oct 29, 2012 @ 16:59:49
runnymeadeuk, I agree. I wish the Church would sing more of the traditional hymns. I remember when the new modern music came in, people were saying you were “religious” if you didn’t like it. Funny isn’t it, how the whole trend brought in a different gospel and a different jesus?
Dec 27, 2012 @ 10:55:45
Great article, I listened so many christian songs like Christian pop,Christian reggae music and many more. But i always enjoy them and it never looks that they are not looks better for listen. Even, i just try to compose my self. So i just want to say that christianity of music is lovable just listen them.
Thanks for this discussion with this great article.