We all want to share the light of Christ in a dark world. But these days, is there a line you draw when deciding whom you partner with to do it? And if so, where is it?
We’d all like pastors and Christian conference speakers to be discerning about partnerships and venues. What about Christian music performers?
A couple days ago we shared a Lighthouse Trails article about an online music concert happening tonight. It’s an internet event featuring 33 of the most popular, well-loved Contemporary Christian Musical Artists, and hosted by Roma Downey.
The event is called “We Will Stand “United,” with the tagline: “One Message, Many Voices.’” It’s being called ‘The Greatest Night In Contemporary Christian Music,” and there could be over a million viewers with a potential reach globally of 40 million.
Are there valid reasons why people are so concerned about this?
Chris Quintana joins us to discuss this with us today. He is senior pastor at Calvary Chapel Cypress in California. You can listen to his live sermons each Sunday morning, Sunday evening and Wednesday evening as he teaches verse-by-verse through the Scriptures.
Also covered today:
- Musicians & The High Cost of Taking A Stand
- Pentatonix and the elephant in the sanctuary
- Christian Radio Station Pulls out of Michael Gungor concert
- Cowardly Christian Entertainers
- Carrie Underwood Speaks Out For Gay Marriage, Cites Christian Faith As Influencing Her Liberal Views
- Roma Downey casts Victoria Osteen, Kay Warren, Joyce Meyer in TV show
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The New Age and Roma Downey
ROMA DOWNEY:
In the March 2014 First for Women magazine, Downey said, “I think we all have a responsibility to see God in each other. That’s how I’ve raised my children – that no matter whose face they look into, they’re looking into the face of God, who’s in all of us.”
Source: First for Women magazine, 03/31/14, pp. 44-45
Now that means you have to see the face of God in whom Isaiah said this:
"To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them" Isaiah 8:20
Now that means you would have to see the face of God in the Judaizers whom Paul twice eternally damned in Galatians.
That means you would have to see the face of God in whom Paul called servants of Satan masquerading as servants of righteousness:
"No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds." 2 Corinthians 11:14-15
Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
That means you would have to see the face of God in who the Apostle John said:
"and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world." 1 John 4:3
That means when you look into the face Haman, you would have to see the face of God.
That means when you look into the face of Judas, you would have to see the face of God.
That means you would have to see the face of God in whom Jesus called brood of vipers.
That means you would have to see the face of God in whom Jesus called "depart from me ye wicked and accursed I never knew you."
That means you would have to see the face of God in whom Jesus called "Ye are of your father the devil":
"Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." John 8:44
Says Roma states, ‘My kids go to school about a 40-minute drive away. I’m open to the group’s opinion about what we listen to on the way there. On the way back, I get my own selections — books on tape by Eckhart Tolle, Tony Robbins…My husband says I’m so self-realized I’m practically levitating.’ Tony Robbins walked on fire and Eckart Tolle is a New Age leader who states in his book:
“Don’t get attached to any one word. You can substitute ‘Christ’ for presence, if that is more meaningful to you. Christ is your God-essence or the Self, as it is sometimes called in the East. The only difference between Christ and presence is that Christ refers to your indwelling divinity regardless of whether you are conscious of it or not, whereas presence means your awakened divinity or God-essence.”
Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Novato, CA: Namaste, 1999), p. 104.
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James, I could not have said it any better (or shorter!) myself.