Description
This book is a plea for Southern Gospel music fans to wake up and tear down the bridges that are being built from conservative Southern Gospel-loving homes and churches to the world itself and to the one-world church represented by contemporary Southern Gospel and CCM.
It is a plea to wake up to the incremental steps that are bringing God’s people ever closer to the world, the flesh, and the devil.
This bridge building is already bearing harmful fruit in this generation, and it will bear apostate fruit in the coming generations.
This book deals with this subject extensively with the most up-to-date research. It is also a multimedia report with 67 links to audio and video clips that illustrate the points, particularly the musical and vocal styles.
This book deals with this subject extensively with the most up-to-date research. It is also a multimedia report with 67 links to audio and video clips that illustrate the points, particularly the musical and vocal styles.
Chapter titles are
- A Time of Great Change
- The Lines Are Being Erased
- Style vs. Standards
- How Old-style Southern Gospel Laid the Foundation
- Shallow Lyrics
- Southern Gospel Dance Rhythms
- Sensual Chord Progressions
- The World’s Singing Techniques (scooping, sliding, improvisation, breathiness, vocal rasping)
- The Emotional Power of Music
- Musical Danger in the Internet Age
- Using Martin Luther vs. Using CCM
- A History of Southern Gospel
- Incremental Worldliness
- The Gaithers
- A Concluding Plea
