[At the foot of this page there is a free-to-download link for a fully interactive PDF format edition of this 32,000-word, 97-page eBook. Please read the text below to learn more about its contents]
IF YOU ARE PART OF A LOCAL CHURCH ASSEMBLY, and if you have music in that church assembly, this detailed paper is a ‘must read’ for you. The words that we sing and the manner in which we sing them, and the entire mode of our worship are immensely significant in ways which many may not even realise. The words which you sing even have a teaching function, whether it is a pop song or a hymn. They either teach explicitly through the lyrics, or they influence more subtly by infusion. Whichever is the case, with song in worship you are ‘chanting your spirituality’. (Actually, the music which goes through you can even affect your DNA, as epigenetics shows).
This whole subject area has been very close to my heart for decades. I sincerely hope that you will read this 97-page paper into which that heart has now been poured in a mass of deep thoughts and revealing research. I know I’ve said it before, but I mean it more than ever with the present paper. I believe this is one of the most important subjects I have ever addressed. For we are dealing here with a subtle but powerful symptom of apostasy and a clear strategy of spiritual warfare from the dark side. To give you a flavour, here is the one-page Preamble at the beginning of the book:
“A devastating ecclesiastical crisis has been unfolding during the last few decades in the realm of Christian worship. Plainly, there has been something of a ‘revolution’ in the worship in churches during this time. Central to this upheaval has been a bumper bandwagon of new songs — and one is either travelling on this bandwagon or not. To be off it is to be left out in the cold. Moreover, to resist this bandwagon will inevitably bring accusations of “not keeping up with the times”, of “resisting the move of the Spirit”, or of “standing in the way of the inevitable global revival”, and so on.
I keep hearing how “exciting” the New Style of Worship is. But that is solely a verdict of the flesh, which should have no bearing on the matter. Entertaining the goats has now come to take precedent over feeding the sheep. However, the litmus test for the worship of God should not be personal excitement but the nurturing of reverence and awe in a congregation of the faithful. That is both the starting point and bottom line in any consideration of corporate worship.
Readers will have to put on their ‘discernment caps’ if they are going to grasp the fullness of what is written in this paper. They will also need to set aside any preconceptions and compare everything that I am saying with not only the actual Scriptures but also the complete essence which those Scriptures represent.
In this paper — which began life as a 12,000-word piece in 1997, was updated in 2000 to 22,000 words, and has just been expanded by a further 45% to 32,000 — I will examine the issues involved, trace the history of hymnody and corporate worship from the Old Testament to the present, expose the movements which have led to this ‘worship revolution’, show the connections with New Age occultism, and demonstrate the glaring hidden agenda which lies behind it all”.
So now that you have this preparatory outline, please go ahead and freely download the entire eBook by clicking on the PDF download button at the foot of this page. At the top of the page is an image of the cover and immediately below is the three-page Table of Contents to whet your appetite. May this eBook bless you in some way and lead you into deeper waters than is customary in the churches in these weirdly interesting times.
[Below is a free-to-download link for a 97-page PDF eBook which is fully interactive with clickable links and bookmark headings. Just click on the Download button]
.
.
© Copyright, Alan Morrison, 2023
[The copyright on my works is merely to protect them from any wanton plagiarism which could result in undesirable changes (as has actually happened!). Readers are free to reproduce my work, so long as it is in the same format and with the exact same content and its origin is acknowledged]
Diakrisis Project 