For those in the industry and or those who are trying really hard to enter into that industry.
There are some great sounds, beautiful voices, and few and far between, decent words in the songs being sung. There is however one major problem. Most everyone claims to be a minister or at least... in the ministry. They will testify and give thanks to the good Lord above for blessing them with their wonderful talent. If you've not seen this then catch the latest Dove Award show. They will tell you how their hearts desire is to help others and minister to them in their music... they all want to heal the brokenhearted and give the hopeless hope. What they leave out of their testimony or the "about" section of the website... they will sure enough do all of this for the low, low, price of ________ (insert the going rate for a CD). If they are going to be "ministered" by you in person via the concert... never mind the offering plate! Just go to ticketmaster.com and they will take care of that "offering" for you at a higher price than the CD!
These artist can have pride in the fact that many of them are on the "Integrity Music" label. This company had so much integrity that they sold out to Sony Records which is run by a bunch of godless folk that put out all sorts of trash in the music industry as well as many other forms of entertainment. They can be proud of the fact that churches all over the world are singing their music... as long as they can afford to pay the licensing fee to simply put the words on an overhead screen or each musician on the worship team has purchased copies of the music which can be found in outrageously priced song books at your local Christian Bookstore which is an all together different issue! They can be proud that the company that owns INTEGRITY will be certain to enforce all of this to the point of suing many churches for failure to follow these rules. Never one mind the idea that a Christian shouldn't sue another Christian because Sony is anything but a Christian organization so HEY!!! Rule doesn't apply!
Stay out of the industry. It has turned to many people of God into whores for a godless organization. It's not worth it and sure... you might make a buck while here in the nasty now and now... but what about eternity? Freely God has blessed you with the gift to be used for Him. Nothing wrong with earning a living while ministering to others utilizing that gift. Nevertheless... it was given to you. Give it to others thus storing up wonderful treasures in heaven
REPENT! TURN BACK TO GOD! Redeem the time while there is still time left to redeem!
There are some great sounds, beautiful voices, and few and far between, decent words in the songs being sung. There is however one major problem. Most everyone claims to be a minister or at least... in the ministry. They will testify and give thanks to the good Lord above for blessing them with their wonderful talent. If you've not seen this then catch the latest Dove Award show. They will tell you how their hearts desire is to help others and minister to them in their music... they all want to heal the brokenhearted and give the hopeless hope. What they leave out of their testimony or the "about" section of the website... they will sure enough do all of this for the low, low, price of ________ (insert the going rate for a CD). If they are going to be "ministered" by you in person via the concert... never mind the offering plate! Just go to ticketmaster.com and they will take care of that "offering" for you at a higher price than the CD!
These artist can have pride in the fact that many of them are on the "Integrity Music" label. This company had so much integrity that they sold out to Sony Records which is run by a bunch of godless folk that put out all sorts of trash in the music industry as well as many other forms of entertainment. They can be proud of the fact that churches all over the world are singing their music... as long as they can afford to pay the licensing fee to simply put the words on an overhead screen or each musician on the worship team has purchased copies of the music which can be found in outrageously priced song books at your local Christian Bookstore which is an all together different issue! They can be proud that the company that owns INTEGRITY will be certain to enforce all of this to the point of suing many churches for failure to follow these rules. Never one mind the idea that a Christian shouldn't sue another Christian because Sony is anything but a Christian organization so HEY!!! Rule doesn't apply!
Stay out of the industry. It has turned to many people of God into whores for a godless organization. It's not worth it and sure... you might make a buck while here in the nasty now and now... but what about eternity? Freely God has blessed you with the gift to be used for Him. Nothing wrong with earning a living while ministering to others utilizing that gift. Nevertheless... it was given to you. Give it to others thus storing up wonderful treasures in heaven
REPENT! TURN BACK TO GOD! Redeem the time while there is still time left to redeem!
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