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Friday, January 5, 2018

MICHAEL W. SMITH CONTINUES TO CALL FOR ECUMENICAL UNITY

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MICHAEL W. SMITH CONTINUES TO CALL FOR ECUMENICAL UNITY 
 
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
BY DAVID CLOUD 
(Friday Church News Notes, January 5, 2018, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - One of the great dangers of using contemporary worship music is that it builds bridges to the one-world church. To my knowledge, 100% of the popular contemporary worship musicians are radical ecumenists, including Stuart Townend and the Gettys. They have non-critical association with "Christians" of every stripe, including Roman Catholics. To them, "separation" is almost a dirty word. Michael W. Smith is one of the most prominent and influential names in contemporary worship, and he continues to call for ecumenical unity. The goal of his new live album Surrounded is "to unify the Church’s diverse expressions into one passionate, joyful cry of worship." He says, "I feel God moving through His Church and He is calling us together to be one voice and one heart. One bride. Every nation, every tribe and every tongue. Every social class, EVERY DENOMINATION" ("Michael W. Smith Releases Two Albums," louderthanthemusic.com, Dec. 2017). It is impossible to reconcile the Bible’s clear and forceful warnings about false teaching and apostasy (e.g., Romans 16:17; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; 11:1-4, 14-15; 1 Timothy 1:3; 4:1-5; 2 Timothy 3:5; 4:3-4; 1 John 4:1; Jude 3; Revelation 2:14-16) with contemporary praise music’s call for ecumenical unity. For those who love the Bible, interpret it literally, and hold it to be the sole and final authority for faith and practice, it is clear that the voice Michael W. Smith is hearing is not God’s. "Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way" (Psalm 119:128). Bible-believing churches that are messing around with contemporary music and are not properly educating their people about this issue are playing with spiritual fire, but most of the pastors are terribly and carelessly and willfully ignorant of such things.
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 Michael W. Smith - Surrounded (Fight My Battles)