Trojan Horses, Golden Calves
You know, there’s something terribly wrong with the Christian music scene,
Which nowadays often just reflects a glitzy Las Vegas sheen.
And hence all those Christian singers who have fans falling at their feet,
Such fans excited by their idols, their worldly sound, same strong beat.
And these Christian idols are gracing CDs, those booklets inside,
And not the Lord of whom they sing, who such placement is thus denied.
However, God wouldn’t want His picture adorning such CDs,
As their pagan-Holy fusion isn’t something that God will please.
And so, Jazz, Rock, Rap, Pop and Country seem the order of the day,
Displaying a Christendom that has embraced a worldly way.
For God has always warned His people not to imitate the world,
And that secular and sacred they should never attempt to weld.
But it’s clear that so many Christians love the entertainment scene,
With all its hype, glitz and glamour, and that stardom that is seen.
And thus at the foot of this matter lies one of the reasons why
So many Christian singers a wrongful music fusion soon try.
Yes, some want to have it both ways, but God has clearly said, NO WAY!
Because such simply dishonours Him, and Him will wrongly portray.
For we’re meant to serve our God alone who’s a Holy, righteous Lord,
And not the world or ourselves, or we may well forfeit our reward.
But Rock or Pop style concerts and those croony cabaret displays,
Soon dilute and assault the Gospel, and its purity betrays.
Therefore, Christians shouldn't copy the world’s entertaining ways,
Nor mix the secular and sacred, as confusion such conveys.
So it hardly surprises me that such in church is wanted too,
When Christians, (during the week), those wrongful worldly things pursue.
For once the world intoxicates any whom God has set apart,
It’s not long before we see that they soon from His pure ways depart.
Thus it seems that many Christians have just sought out another calf,
Helped by more compliant Aarons who simply make the devil laugh.
And a Trojan horse as well, it seems, has passed through the Church’s gates,
With enemies in its belly after everything that Satan hates.
So has Christendom become spiritually schizophrenic?
Has a horrid Babylonic fusion now become systemic?
Is another pagan golden calf being worshiped like before,
And has a devilish Trojan horse let dark forces out its door?
Now isn’t that just like the devil to revive apostasy,
And hence the many parallels with the past that we now can see.
For just like those foolish Israelites who demanded their own way,
Christians will pay a high price too if they've chosen to wrongly stray.
Yes, "The end justifies the means," seems to motivate many folk,
But such humanistic thinking, apostasy will simply stoke.
Because so many fires have raged due to just a tiny ember,
And this why Christians should take care and the following remember:
Good that comes from something done isn’t proof that the right thing was done,
Though often when some wrong thing is done, that it is proof, we see spun.
But in spite of and not because of is why good sometimes occurs,
For God, out of some wrong that’s done, good somehow creatively spurs.
By Lance Landall
This poem was upgraded on the 14 May 2016.
Sources drawn from include —
"Music in the Balance" by Frank Garlock and Kurt Woetzel.
"Restoring True Worship" by Ruth Webb.
Recommended
reading — ‘Why I Left The Contemporary Christian Music Movement’ by Dan
Lucarini — Evangelical Press USA, ISBN 0 85234 517 8