If questioned, many would say that Hillsong is the greatest success story of ministering to, and attracting our youth, yet from interviewing teens themselves, the opposite seems to be the case. Churches like HILLSONG are causing young people to ultimately turn away from TRUE faith in Christ!
Larry Taunton of the Fixed Point Foundation set out to find out why so many young Christians lose their faith in college. He did this by employing a method I don’t recall being used before: He asked them.
Phil had grown up in church; he had even been the president of his youth group. What drove Phil away wasn’t the lure of secular materialism or even Christian moral teaching. And he was specifically upset when his church changed youth pastors.
Whereas his old youth pastor “knew the Bible” and made Phil “feel smart” about his faith even when he didn’t have all the answers, the new youth pastor taught less and played more.
Phil’s loss of faith coincided with his church’s attempt to ingratiate itself to him instead of challenging him. According to Taunton, Phil’s story “was on the whole typical of the stories we would hear from students across the country.”
These kids had attended church but “the mission and message of their churches was vague,” and manifested itself in offering “superficial answers to life’s difficult questions.” The ministers they respected were those “who took the Bible seriously,” not those who sought to entertain them or be their “buddy.”
Taunton also learned that, for many kids, their journey to unbelief was an emotional, not just an intellectual one.
Taunton’s findings are counter-intuitive. Much of what passes for youth ministry these days is driven by a morbid fear of boring our young charges. As a result, a lot of time is spent trying to devise ways to ENTERTAIN them.
A group called Capital Kings encaptulate the modern ‘theology’
I’m the street lights that guide you home
I’ll be the G.P.S when you’ve lost your phone
I’ll be the song that’s rockin’ in your headphones
I’ll show you the signs
To let you know
You’ll never be alone
So where there is no defined biblical understanding, where teenagers are left to themselves, with little to no biblical instruction, instead of being in their bibles, they have headphones on listening to the lastest ‘praise and worship’ music. Without clear guidance, these young adults will drift, and fall away, because they had no proper foundation or anchor in the truth. Hillsong and many other churches have rejected the old paths; the sad fact is we are witnessing Christianity being “gloriously ruined.”
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http://www.christianpost.com/news/learning-from-young-atheists-what-turned-them-off-christianity-99230/#Xqs6EHewOS5Ewp8W.99
Many youth only attend youth services and children the children;s without church services. They are entertained and given little gospel. In fifty years I, an older person have never even heard in churches the challenging message of Jesus, ‘If anyone hate nnot his father or his mother, brothers or sisters and leave all, he cannot be my disciple’. So are these precious youth really Christ’s disciples? ‘If any one love the world, the love to the Father is not in him’. How can he make heaven?
I have been personally listening to Hillsong for about years. And that’s odd, by reading your article I didn’t find myself drifting away from God? Instead, I worship and praise God with the the music of Hillsong. Whenever I listen to it, all I can think of is Jesus and how he loves me. You see, it’s not the music. It depends on the person on how he delivers the music. If he likes Hillsong by the melody and the playing then that’s the problem. He’ll only listen to it a lot of time and never get attached to biblical scriptures or even praying. He might be as well drift away from God as you say. But when a christian listen to Hillsong by heart and understands the lyrics praising God then that is not “drifting away” it’s drawing closer to God.
Get my point? Nothing is wrong with Hillsong and their music. Their music is about Jesus Christ. NOTHING MORE. Did you see any vulgar words in their music? Or perhaps something that can brainwash? No. For it’s depends on the PERSON LISTENING TO THE MUSIC.
Please THINK AND BE OPEN-MINDED.
This comment is of thought . One realizes Hillsong comprises crowds of new converts, knowing little of the Bible and its theology,doctrines and gospel. Where in its songs are Gospel truths? “You love me, I love You is water in the milk of the Word. Church hymns abound in truth. As to the music is it not of this world that we are cpmmanded to come ‘out of’? Do you not know that the Oligarchi reigning,, full of Pharisaical Talmudic Jews,, ordered the first Rock concert in Paris, from there world-wide, to bring down Youth’s morals, most successfully! With their Hollywood, T.V., evil songs and beat? Such being of Satan and demons? Many churches, result of Hillsong are theaters, darkened, with , lazered light shows of this evil world? How damning for Hillsong.
Where in the N.T. is there one verse supporting your concept of suc so-called worship? Does God even receive it? I fear not. It is a parody of evil. As for I think of Jesus,’ my dear brother, Jesus said, ‘In Spirit ( Holy) and in Truth’. Where is the Truth (N.T.) in your thoughts or words?
Certainly you and the whole of Hillsong are not ‘in the Spirit’ there being no evidence, no supernatural. God is Spirit, you are flesh and of this world, not heavenlies, in your service – not worship, please note.
Jesus expects obedience. Suggestion: eat, consume, fill your mind and spirit with – Ephesians, 1 Corinthians, 12-14, Galatians 3:1-end, Romans 8, & 12.
Having been often where songs are sung, that i either have re written in mind or voice but generally never singing and more often arriving late but as of now never to enter such that churches again. My church is in Spirit world-wide and with a local few .
As for prosperity, Jesus – ‘You cannot serve God and Mammon’, to Jews who had money. The same in today’s world, Rothschilds own half its wealth. That belief is in supposedly Christian Hillsong – not known as Jewish! ‘if any love the world the love of the Father is not in him’. so how does Hillsong stand, where Jews stand , as Satan said to Jesus, Mt. 4, power, prestige and prosperity. Our Lord used the Word against him. ‘Go and do likewise, my dear one.
Maybe your own soul and those of others are in danger.
The web site of Brother Nathanael is realjewnews.com
Is Healing In The Atonement?
Isa.53:5 SLT: ‘And he being wounded for our transgressions, and crushed from our iniquities, the correction of our peace upon him, and in the marks of his stripes it was healed for us’. What was healed?
Those as: ‘for our transgressions, our iniquities, our peace upon him’. This part of v.5 is the subject, the ‘it’. Ch. 53 is totally about our sin. Our sin separated us from Him, Our sin ‘Your iniquities have separated you from your God’, and Christ brought peace, Eph.5:17. “The wages are of sin, not sickness, Rom.6:23. No mention of sickness being the problem. Redemption is from sin by the shed blood. All are appointed ‘once to die’. Rom.8:23 We wait the ‘redemption of our body’; We will put on immortality at His coming, 1 Cor,.15:54.
By whose stripes we are healed refers to the preceding words of that verse. Such reveal it is all about our transgressions. 1 Cor. 15:3 ‘Christ died for our sins (not for our sicknesses) according to the Scriptures. Those stripes left bruised weals accdg. to Hebrew, Isa. 53:5. Healing of sicknesses is not in the atonement. It is healing from sin. We still sin, get forgiven as His blood cleanses from sin. If healing from illness were in the atonement every sickness would as does sin on confession. 20 or so beginnings of sicknesses are on every one’s body. As to sin, ‘It is cleansed’ and we are not under its dominion. Yet if ill, pray and trust the Lord.
“Stripes’ from Heb. Chabbuwrah’ means ‘bruise, stripe, wound, blow’. It is properly, ‘bound’ with stripes. that is a weal, black and blue with mark itself. I a Pentecostal/Charismatic, 70 yrs. do find them often ignorant in their rush to have all with the right to be healed. I believe the Lord heals, seen it hundreds of times in life, ministry. Gift of healing, laying hands, prayer of faith. Honest preachers would say about 3% only get healed.
1 Peter 2:24 not sickness. Healing from sin etc., Psalms mention ‘healed’ from sin etc. as definitely not sickness.
See Peter. V.18-20,to servants, subject to whipping. Suffer, says Peter, like Christ, V.21-23. He (moreover) suffered for you (not for Himself as you do for your own self). Healed’ from Gk. ioamai: to make whole, to free from errors and sins, to bring about one’s salvation.
Healed in soul, Ps.41:4; Isa. 57:18. Ps.30:3,2.;PS. 51.
If ill, pray for healing. But many have had their sickness for years or died!
The N.T. emphasises over forty times we are to hold to ‘the truth’. It is all about our wondrous salvation from sin, eternal condemnation, hell and then delivered out of the power of darkness and into the kingdom of light. The apostles preached Christ crucified, not healing (never a word about a restored Israel or Millennium on earth) and Heb.2:3-5. Jesus began to preach the Gospel followed by the apostles preaching a fuller Gospel of salvation from sin. God confirmed it with signs and wonders and gifts of the Holy Ghost, people filled with the Holy Ghost, those healed through handkerchiefs and Peters shadow, raising of the dead, many healings etc. Paul said, 1Cor.1:17 ( to preach the Gospel) 1Cor.2:1-10; v.4, ‘And my speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power’. See Gal.3:1, Jesus Christ was being preached as crucified so much that they could see the Truth all the time. 2Thes. ‘how that our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power (dunamis power of speaking in tongues) and in the Holy Spirit, gifts of the Spirit’.
These where gifts of faith, healings and miracles. Also included were words of knowledge and of wisdom. See 1Cor.14:26, where in meetings of the church, those three gifts are not mentioned. There are words of knowledge and of wisdom as Paul used in his teaching of the Gospel. ‘Teaching & revelation’, are not regarding healing. See ‘When ye come together, each one hath a psalm (from the Spirit Eph.5:18-20), hath a teaching, hath a revelation (words of knowledge and of wisdom being Spirit inspired understanding of the revelation of the Gospel, N.T.), hath a tongue, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.’ We have all been wrong, a. In pronouncing new revelations from ourselves and b. saying words of knowledge are about healings, c. the revelation has been given through the apostles of the N.T. and no further revelation is to be added to the Word of God. They are part of the gifts of healings and miracles as can be seen. In Australia all churches have descended to people everywhere getting supposed words of knowledge and saying the most ridiculous things, the healings not occurring and the preaching of a diluted Gospel, heresy, error, no real knowledge of the Word of God, New Age – doctrines of demons (1Tim.6:3-6; 2Tim.4:1,2,6,7; 2Tim.4:1-4) That I should live to see such a time!
We pray for the sick. Years on, they die – go to be with the Lord, forever. Glorious thought. Why some, not all get healed we know not. Why ask? Job, ‘Tho He slay me I will trust Him.’ ‘I will and not be afraid when all my life on Him is stayed.’
Little 10 yr. old Indian girl – sick. Kept saying, I am going to die be with Jesus. She went parents said.
Have you been to website revirene.org where we give limited testimony of what the Lord did through the gift of faith, healings and miracles?