And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever” (1 John 2:15-17).ĥ. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. SOFT ROCK IS A DANGEROUS BRIDGE TO THE WORLDLY THINGS THAT PERMEATE THE WORLD OF ROCK AND ROLL.
#Soft rock full#
“Hell and destruction are never full so the eyes of man are never satisfied” (Prov. Like all appetites, this one is never content. BY LISTENING TO SOFT ROCK, ONE DEVELOPS AN APPETITE, AN ADDICTION, FOR POP MUSIC. “For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would” (Gal. This is a loud warning to those who have ears to hear. These unsaved blues musicians admit that certain rhythms are sexy. King, one of the most famous of the bluesmen, made the same observation in his autobiography: “The women reacted with their bodies flowing to a rhythm coming out of my guitar…” (B.B. He said, “This sound affected most women in a way that I could never understand.” B.B. Famous bluesman Robert Johnson knew that his music had a licentious affect on women. Like rock music, there was soft blues as well as hard. And those old blues and boogie woogie rhythms were not always loud and boisterous. It is not happenstance that those wicked activities were accompanied by certain types of rhythms. Those are the forbidden pleasures referred to by Nager. That part of Beale Street near the river was infamous for its bars, gambling dens, and houses of prostitution. In his history of music in Memphis, Tennessee, one of the homes of rock and roll, author Larry Nager observed that “…the forbidden pleasures of Beale Street had always come wrapped in the PULSING RHYTHMS of the blues” (Larry Nager, Memphis Beat). David Elkind, Chairman, Department of Child Study, Tufts University, warned: “There is a great deal of powerful sexual stimulation in the rhythm of rock music.” Certain kinds of rhythms produce certain effects on people. EVEN SOFT ROCK USES SENSUAL “SEXY RHYTHMS” THAT APPEAL TO THE FLESH. “But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints” (Ephesians 5:3).Ģ. It is very dangerous to allow one’s mind to dwell on such things. The “love” that is so often the theme of rock music, is not love at all by God’s standards it is lust.
It promotes sensual, lustful relationships that are not grounded in marriage.
#Soft rock free#
From its earliest days, free sex has been one of the themes that has permeated all of rock music, soft, hard, pop, metal, punk, you name it. THE MESSAGE OF “SOFT ROCK” IS OFTEN AS IMMORAL AS THAT OF HARD ROCK. Many Christians who would not listen to “hard rock” nevertheless fill their minds with “soft rock.” But is soft rock really innocent and proper for a child of God? Is soft rock a godly influence? Following are six warnings against it.ġ. Thus, practically every pastor today is faced with an ongoing battle if he attempts to hold the line in the area of music. The average church member is so accustomed to and even addicted to rock music in his daily life, he craves for it even in church. When they think of rock, they think of heavy metal or punk or rap or some other kind of very hard rock. Many people don’t even recognize soft rock as rock music. As rock has gotten ever more violent and vicious, we have become desensitized to the milder forms of it. Even the mildest form of rock music was shocking to people in the 1950s, but that which was shocking then is old hat today. It is on the radio and television, in commercials, in stores, at sporting events. Over the past 50 years, rock music has permeated society in practically every part of the world. O ne of the reasons why Contemporary Christian Music has gained such rapid influence in churches is that this generation is so completely addicted to rock music.
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