Dale Partridge - August 14, 2019


Real Christianity #58： Is Your Worship Music Teaching False Doctrine？


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00:00:00.000 Welcome to Real Christianity. Today, we are talking about... 0.82
00:00:03.780 Is your worship music teaching false doctrine?
00:00:06.440 Is your worship music teaching false doctrine?
00:00:09.880 A very important conversation. We've been asked to do this episode several times.
00:00:13.620 We've also been wanting to do this episode for quite some time.
00:00:16.900 We're going to talk about, really, the lyrics behind some of these contemporary worship songs,
00:00:21.860 as well as how should we be viewing worship music through the lens of Scripture.
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00:01:44.560 on that note let's dive in veronica is going to open us up okay so worship music worship music
00:01:50.920 i think we can all agree is is a good thing um there is no argument that god calls us to sing
00:01:56.940 our praises to him and about him to others um and then this this idea of singing to the lord
00:02:03.140 is repeated in the psalms five times uh two of my favorite psalms uh one of them being psalm
00:02:09.720 96 1 oh sing to the lord a new song sing to the lord all the earth and then the other one would
00:02:16.280 be um psalm 95 1 oh come let us sing for joy to the lord let us shout joyfully to the rock of our
00:02:22.960 salvation so in the new testament um in ephesians 5 verse 19 uh it addresses or it says um address
00:02:33.060 one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing and making melody to the lord with
00:02:37.760 your heart um so the use of music and worshiping god is undeniably biblical and christian and i
00:02:45.720 think martin luther said it quite nicely when he said the gift of language combined with the gift
00:02:51.800 of song was given to man that he should proclaim the word of god by music yeah so i think that we
00:02:58.020 can all come to the conclusion that that worship and worship music and the idea of singing a song
00:03:04.300 to God is a good thing. It's a biblical thing. It's a Christian thing because sometimes just
00:03:09.260 because it's biblical doesn't mean it's Christian, right? It could be just that it's included in the
00:03:12.220 Bible. It's the Old Testament under the Old Covenant, but this is a thing that we can all do
00:03:17.140 and I think all enjoy with the Lord. So catch us there that we love worship music and we often
00:03:24.660 have worship music and hymns playing throughout our house on a regular basis. Now I put worship
00:03:31.160 in the same spiritual category as prayer.
00:03:34.860 And what I mean by this is there's a biblical way to do it.
00:03:38.920 You know, for example, the Bible has offered us
00:03:40.900 kind of a model for prayer throughout the scriptures,
00:03:43.400 and Jesus even offers us a direct template, right?
00:03:46.280 You know, the disciples are asking, how do we pray?
00:03:48.380 And he actually gives them a direct template
00:03:50.620 for prayer in the New Testament.
00:03:52.680 And the same is true with worship.
00:03:55.620 The Bible offers us a model of worship
00:03:57.860 and spiritual song throughout the scriptures,
00:04:00.660 And Jesus, again, even tells us directly how we should be worshiping and how that should be done under the new covenant.
00:04:09.400 And again, I'm going to talk about that passage here in just a second.
00:04:12.120 So just stay with me here.
00:04:13.400 But first, I wanted to point out the difference between Christian music and worship music.
00:04:18.600 I think that's a really important distinction to make between Christian music and worship music.
00:04:23.880 Christian music is music that really has to do with any Christian idea or Christian virtue.
00:04:27.980 For example, a lot of the stuff that you hear on Christian radio stations, I would call Christian music, not necessarily worship music.
00:04:37.840 And I also believe, you know, Christian music, again, not worship music, Christian music offers kind of more capacity for artistic expression and more liberty and poetry in that way than worship music does.
00:04:53.300 And I think this is where a lot of us get in trouble.
00:04:56.620 We take songs that are Christian songs and use them at church for worship songs.
00:05:03.020 And I think that that's a problem when you have one category that's like got a lot of liberty and again, artistic expression and poetry over here.
00:05:12.080 And then you kind of take it into the church where there's there's a different expectation for worship as you're leading other people in their understanding of who God is.
00:05:21.220 Yeah, it goes on to the main stage and you don't even know who's in that audience.
00:05:24.320 a lot of very young, immature believers, a lot of people that aren't even believers.
00:05:28.820 Exactly. And they're looking at, yeah, so this is important stuff, which we'll get here in a second.
00:05:33.180 And this is why we need to be really careful. And you might ask, why? Why do we need to be careful?
00:05:38.640 Well, John 4, 23 through 24, Jesus says,
00:05:42.620 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth.
00:05:51.500 And the Father is seeking such to worship Him.
00:05:54.800 God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth.
00:06:00.680 And so this is, the direct context of this verse isn't specifically talking about worship music with God,
00:06:08.780 but it is absolutely talking about a universal truth that God must be worshipped in spirit and truth.
00:06:16.860 So any way that you want to worship the Lord, whether that's singing or whether that's writing, it needs to be done in spirit and in truth.
00:06:24.660 So this is a kind of a universal template, a principle that would apply to this.
00:06:29.320 And Jesus tells us here that we don't get to worship any way that we want.
00:06:35.920 We don't get to worship him with our spirits only.
00:06:38.900 And I think, you know, I think that biblically speaking, when you're saying the spirit, I believe that's kind of the the heart's relationship with God.
00:06:49.240 Kind of the the I don't want to say emotional because I don't want to elevate it too high.
00:06:52.760 But you get what I'm saying there when you're worshiping him and worship, worshiping the father in spirit.
00:06:58.240 But again, Jesus tells us that we don't get to worship God with our hearts alone.
00:07:02.760 we get to worship God with our hearts our spirit in combination with truth in combination with
00:07:12.580 God's truth so it's not just your heart it's your heart in combination with truth and that makes a
00:07:19.980 really powerful combination and I believe Paul actually furthers this idea of spirit and truth
00:07:28.900 uh you know when he defines worship uh music in in in a way in first corinthians chapter 14 verse
00:07:36.360 15 he says i will pray with the spirit and i will pray with the understanding i will sing
00:07:44.280 with the spirit and i will also sing with the understanding i think it's a really important
00:07:50.200 verse here yeah in that passage jesus and paul are teaching christians that there is is a proper
00:07:56.980 way to worship um and to sing to the lord and we're to do it in spirit as you mentioned with
00:08:02.880 truth and with understanding um we don't just sing songs to god that we don't understand what
00:08:09.020 we're saying um and if we don't understand them how can we determine if they're truthful um now
00:08:16.860 why you might be thinking like why is all this so important um a congregation learns their theology
00:08:24.980 not only by the preaching that they hear but by the songs that they sing yeah now i don't know if
00:08:31.580 you heard me i'm gonna say that again it's really a congregation learns their theology not only by
00:08:37.160 the preaching they hear but by the songs that they sing yeah aw tozer i think said a really great
00:08:42.800 great quote on this idea he says the only book i place before the hymnal is the bible and what
00:08:50.080 he's saying is that a classic like time-tested uh hymnal filled with like dense biblically centered
00:08:57.780 um gospel centered christ-exalting songs that have been tested through time um is a critical book for
00:09:07.260 the christian life um and and i think a lot of the church has kind of missed that you know yeah i
00:09:13.760 think just you saying that reminded me i think one time you're telling me about a old theologian
00:09:20.080 and one of your um seminary classes shared that most of his theology was learned by hundreds of
00:09:27.860 classic hymns that his mother actually had him memorize by the time he was like 12 or something
00:09:33.020 yeah he was he was uh giving a message um that i watched during one of my seminary classes and
00:09:39.280 he's just talking about he's like I got I came into seminary and I already had like a framework
00:09:45.220 for all this stuff and I realized that it was just because my mom when he was a little boy
00:09:49.660 made him like write out the hymns and sing them and he just again attributed so much of his
00:09:57.460 theological framework just to the songs that he sung they're written on his heart yep um another
00:10:02.360 point that we cannot forget is what the bible has told us in Ezekiel 28 13 about Satan
00:10:08.940 and I'm gonna go and let you read that for us yeah it's a yeah it's a pretty powerful thing when
00:10:14.800 I put two and two together it's like things that I knew but then when you're sharing this with me
00:10:19.400 I was like oh my goodness mind blown kind of moment yeah why didn't I see that before so go
00:10:24.820 ahead and share yeah it's pretty cool so the the Bible in Ezekiel 28 13 tells us something about
00:10:30.760 who Satan is prior to his
00:10:34.900 falling. And the passage I'll read right here, it says
00:10:38.780 you were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious
00:10:42.900 stone was your covering. The sardius, topaz, and diamond,
00:10:46.760 beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold.
00:10:51.040 The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes was prepared
00:10:54.780 for you on the day that you were created. And it's just a
00:10:58.880 If you guys catch that, timbrels is like a Israelite or Hebrew percussion instrument,
00:11:04.840 and pipes obviously could be flutes or some sort of musical instrument here.
00:11:10.840 And so this is the passage that scholars tend to believe that identifies Satan as a musician.
00:11:17.420 So Satan was involved, if not the leader of all music in heaven.
00:11:22.860 That said, we are not to be shocked that the enemy would attack the very thing that he was gifted with and appointed to do.
00:11:31.700 So that was just crazy to me.
00:11:34.240 Like, of course, like I knew that, but I just didn't put the thing together.
00:11:37.620 Yeah.
00:11:37.940 Anyway.
00:11:38.260 Yeah.
00:11:38.400 That's what we're having this conversation.
00:11:39.580 Of course, he's going to attack worship music.
00:11:41.560 Yeah.
00:11:41.720 He knows it.
00:11:42.580 Yeah.
00:11:42.980 Anyway, I think that the church can be very naive of his when I say his Satan of his use of music.
00:11:51.500 to distort theology um all of satan's tactics and strategies can be basically narrowed down
00:11:58.460 to one objective which is deception um what better way to deceive god's people than by
00:12:07.640 captivating their hearts with a song a song that's beautiful um where they repeat over and over and
00:12:14.020 over again ideas that are actually unbiblical and he's not looking for lyrics of blatant heresy
00:12:22.060 he's looking for lyrics of subtle heresy you know he's a counterfeit he wants to make it look
00:12:27.740 so close to the real thing to do almost true almost right but not quite yeah to be a good
00:12:35.460 counterfeit you you gotta look like the real thing yeah so yeah he wants to go after music
00:12:40.320 It sounds Christian, but when put next to the scriptures, it falls short.
00:12:46.420 Yeah, it just falls short.
00:12:47.520 Exactly.
00:12:47.780 That's a really good way to explain that.
00:12:50.560 So I'm going to give you guys a few examples of some songs that you guys probably know that I just put a quick list together.
00:12:59.660 There's probably several more over the years.
00:13:01.400 I remember hearing Christian songs.
00:13:04.540 I'm just like, what?
00:13:06.260 I can't believe they just said that.
00:13:07.600 And I, like, go look up the lyrics online and go, this is not right.
00:13:11.060 So I'll start with Hillsongs.
00:13:13.620 What a beautiful name it is.
00:13:15.980 And, again, I want to point out real quick that, you know, just if one part of a song is heretical, the whole song gets heretical.
00:13:27.760 The problem is that, like, a whole chunk of these songs are actually really great, beautiful in terms of their meaning.
00:13:34.640 It's the same thing with, like, a pastor, right?
00:13:36.560 If a pastor gets up on stage and gives a message, but like, you know, just two or three of his statements were totally heretical and untrue, the pastor is held accountable to the whole sermon that you can't preach false doctrine.
00:13:51.260 That's not to be done.
00:13:52.440 You will be corrected on that.
00:13:54.000 So even if one or two lyrics, you know, verses in a song, stanzas, if you will, are incorrect, it really does make this song a dangerous song.
00:14:05.700 And so Hillsongs, what a beautiful name it is.
00:14:09.080 There's a lyric in there that says, you didn't want heaven without us.
00:14:13.160 So Jesus, you brought heaven down.
00:14:16.120 Okay, this is very bad theology.
00:14:19.380 This teaches people that the Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit were not sufficient and were not satisfied with each other.
00:14:28.800 Okay, you didn't want heaven without us.
00:14:31.220 So Jesus, you brought heaven down.
00:14:32.680 um this um it implies again that they were needy like uh that jesus was needy yeah that jesus was
00:14:40.920 needy ultimately it makes man the solution to god's problem to god's loneliness yeah yeah this
00:14:47.280 is a very unbiblical view of god and um i'm going to tell you why um we don't have a needy jesus we
00:14:54.980 don't have a lonely Jesus. God is not miserable without us, okay? By the Bible's definition of
00:15:03.440 who God is, he is self-sufficient, self-sustaining, and self-existent. God needs nothing, okay? This is
00:15:11.780 what makes the creation story even actually more beautiful. The fact that he did create us
00:15:17.140 through the overflowing love of the fellowship inside the Trinity, that that overflowing love
00:15:24.180 actually was was occurred again it's it's not because they were lonely in heaven that's not
00:15:31.020 the reason that god created mankind is because they were lonely that's not what it was oh he
00:15:37.120 didn't you wanted heaven by yourself or you didn't want to be in heaven all by yourself you're so
00:15:40.840 lonely okay let's just create man he created me i'm gonna i'm the solution to jesus's problem
00:15:46.420 that's that's an unbiblical view and again it's a small subtle things but we're ultimately here
00:15:52.680 in this podcast training you to catch this kind of stuff and you can't catch this stuff unless you
00:15:58.480 know the scriptures yeah um example number two elevations uh elevation worships resurrecting
00:16:06.700 i actually heard this last night so this is like i just heard this when we were in the car we're
00:16:12.440 listening to christian radio and again if it was christian music i give it a little bit of a pass
00:16:17.780 However, this song is absolutely sung in churches across America.
00:16:22.680 And it says, our God has robbed the grave.
00:16:25.460 Our God has robbed the grave.
00:16:26.940 That was one of the lyrics.
00:16:29.000 God did not rob the grave.
00:16:31.040 Thou shall not steal.
00:16:32.160 Yeah, God did not rob the grave.
00:16:33.920 He resurrected his son.
00:16:36.680 God is not a grave robber.
00:16:39.060 That's not the lyrics that we want to be kind of playing into our head that God is a grave robber.
00:16:46.500 And again, this is artistic language, and I understand what they're trying to say there.
00:16:51.380 I get that.
00:16:52.500 But it's lacking a reverence for God.
00:16:54.840 Yeah, he's a holy God.
00:16:56.540 Yeah, God's not a thief, okay?
00:16:58.680 God's not a robber.
00:17:00.400 You would not call God a robber when you stood face to face.
00:17:05.020 So again, you've got to be careful when these things, remember, we worship God in spirit and in truth.
00:17:11.500 And language and words do matter.
00:17:14.720 When I prepare a sermon, I prepare a sermon because I'm watching every single element of what I say.
00:17:23.280 I don't get a pass, like, oh, just a little bit of false ideas in here.
00:17:26.880 That's not okay.
00:17:28.840 Okay, next, I got two more examples here.
00:17:31.960 Bethel Music's Reckless Love.
00:17:34.300 Again, as an artistic piece of work, you know, it can be an enjoyable song in terms of just the orchestration of the music.
00:17:42.400 I like the guy's voice.
00:17:44.660 But again, we've turned this into not just a Christian song, but a worship song at so many different churches.
00:17:51.300 Again, artistic, but it's not truthful.
00:17:54.280 Our God is not reckless.
00:17:57.760 The problem is, is would the song have been as popular as it was if you called it perfect love?
00:18:04.080 Probably not.
00:18:05.960 But that's what the title should be.
00:18:07.400 It should be called perfect love because that's really what God has is perfect.
00:18:10.980 He doesn't have reckless love.
00:18:12.220 the truth is that we are reckless yeah and so yeah people like that song because it identifies
00:18:16.920 with them it does what we do is that it makes god like man that's why we like the song so much
00:18:23.980 oh i'm reckless and so is god like i love that you know that's the kind of and it's it's subtle
00:18:28.800 it is like it's uh subconscious yeah and god's not like man and the classic hymns never portray
00:18:36.880 God as a needy, robber, reckless God. There's artistic language in the classic hymns, but it's
00:18:45.720 all reverent, honoring to the Lord. The Psalms are again, reverent and poetic, man. They're the most
00:18:53.920 beautiful poetry on the planet. They use artistic phrases, but they don't call God a needy or imply
00:19:00.080 that God's a needy, robber, and reckless. That is not truthful worship. That is the human heart
00:19:06.040 operating without truth that's what you get and again that's why the lord needs to be worshiped
00:19:11.480 in spirit and in truth in combination last one is uh jesus culture holy spirit you are welcome here
00:19:19.760 come flood this place and fill the atmosphere you guys have heard that song you probably sung it at
00:19:25.140 church um and first um there is not one place in the bible where people pray or talk to the holy
00:19:33.180 spirit and so that's just one thing that they're doing in this song that has no biblical reference
00:19:41.460 for um we're to pray to the father through the son that's the the biblical narrative that we're
00:19:47.580 we're to do um second the holy spirit doesn't need to be invited anywhere and we do not command his
00:19:54.840 movement in the world um and thirdly he fills people he doesn't fill places um we do not see
00:20:03.360 a new testament example of the holy spirit filling a building by the request of the people of god
00:20:09.440 now there's the old testament idea of the temple being filled with the spirit of god
00:20:13.860 but again we're in the new covenant now different covenant and i've i've seen people lead this song
00:20:20.300 and start literally calling the Holy Spirit to come fill the room.
00:20:25.120 And again, this tells and teaches doctrine that you just don't see in scripture.
00:20:29.560 It's extra biblical at best.
00:20:32.040 And so we just need to be careful about that there.
00:20:36.320 There's a whole theology on the idea of filling and indwelling on the Holy Spirit.
00:20:42.380 And it's really important to understand what that means.
00:20:44.960 We don't have time for it today.
00:20:45.960 but it proves that the people who are writing these songs while they are incredibly gifted
00:20:51.960 um incredibly poetic um their their giftedness and their their artisticness doesn't equal
00:21:03.860 maturity and this is a kind of a theme that veronica and i've learned over the years that
00:21:08.620 spiritual giftedness doesn't equal spiritual maturity we think that man look at that guy teach
00:21:15.980 he's such a gifted teacher and wow look at that song that he wrote and the guitar that he can play
00:21:20.680 and the voice that he has spiritual giftedness doesn't equal spiritual maturity and it's actually
00:21:27.340 really dangerous if you don't watch yourself because you you need to have that spiritual
00:21:34.140 giftedness that honors the lord ultimately we get to use our gifts god's way not our gifts
00:21:39.380 our way um i'm almost done here and then i'll hand it over to veronica um now i i know some
00:21:45.500 of you guys are probably thinking really dale um you're really worried about a few subtle
00:21:49.100 incorrect lyrics in a song um and and yes i i am worried it's a slow small incremental
00:21:58.120 thought pattern changes exactly and that's where eventually you know you know one thing after
00:22:06.120 another after another over time yes it's dangerous exactly it's exactly true and so uh and not because
00:22:15.420 i want to be kind of the worship police either like that's not my desire here but because
00:22:20.200 scripture calls us to worship in spirit and in truth and to do so with understanding when we sing
00:22:24.980 with understanding and um if you want to understand doctrine and then read those lyrics
00:22:32.000 you go well yeah i can't i can't reverence the lord properly with those lyrics therefore i can't
00:22:37.420 sing those songs to the lord um in terms of a worship manner and first peter 4 11 tells us a
00:22:45.900 really important passage it says if anyone speaks let him speak as the oracles of god the oracles of
00:22:52.700 God are the truths of God. If anyone ministers, let him do so with the ability which God supplies,
00:22:58.260 that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the
00:23:03.560 dominion forever and ever. Amen. Matthew 12, 36 through 37 kind of goes on to this idea of how
00:23:11.000 important our words are. It says, but I say to you that every idle word that men may speak, they will
00:23:15.700 give an account of it in the day of judgment. For by your words, you will be justified, and by your
00:23:20.420 words you will be condemned words matter um they really do matter yeah i think of the book of james
00:23:28.560 when it says uh let not many of you be teachers for you will incur a stricter judgment um and a
00:23:34.220 worship leader is a teacher they usually call him you know that's the worship pastor yeah a worship
00:23:39.880 leader is a teacher think about it you know right before the pastor comes up onto the stage uh when
00:23:45.420 pastor leaves who is there and right before they get there who is there um the worship leader and
00:23:50.780 in many cases uh they are equal in their weight to grow theological understanding um i want to
00:23:58.300 stop you for here because especially because how much time do we spend on worship in the church
00:24:03.980 today in comparison to expository deep teaching it's like 45 minutes of worship songs in like a
00:24:11.160 30-minute message so you're like learning more interesting yeah in your worship than you are
00:24:16.000 yeah so that's the problem we've allowed the artistic to overshadow the academic in terms
00:24:23.800 of having an understanding of rock-solid theological truth a pastor does not and
00:24:29.680 should not take artistic liberty when preaching God's word and neither should the worship leaders
00:24:36.440 So if you bring a song to church, you are, in fact, bringing a three to five minute teaching.
00:24:43.940 Yeah, that's what you're doing.
00:24:44.960 If you're bringing a song to church, and what do they do at church?
00:24:47.640 They put it up on the screen and you get to read the lyrics.
00:24:50.980 And again, when the whole church is standing there reading the lyrics, they're teaching,
00:24:55.740 especially if you're new to the faith, as you mentioned earlier.
00:24:59.480 You're reading it and you're believing it.
00:25:00.660 It's one of those things, again, you're writing it on your heart.
00:25:02.860 yeah and you're repeating it over and over and over again um so i want to add one more
00:25:10.280 point to this conversation uh that's a pretty important point i was concerned about including
00:25:18.980 it but i think it's really important um music seems to be the trojan horse for the enemy today
00:25:24.740 um especially worship music and he's getting thousands of churches to buy into the theology
00:25:31.980 of a certain church through their music, okay?
00:25:36.860 For example, Bethel Music has a lot of very popular Christian artists on their label.
00:25:43.060 I mean, very popular artists that have been in the Christian space for a long time.
00:25:48.080 And all of a sudden, you find yourself singing Bethel worship songs at church.
00:25:54.280 And because of this, many just blindly accept Bethel's overall theology.
00:26:00.240 Like, well, if my church is going to sing their songs, you know, I love their music, you know, affirmation by association, you know, you know, my church affirms this because they have their music here.
00:26:11.000 Then everything else that Bethel might do should be good as well.
00:26:16.120 And this is, again, happened also with Hillsong.
00:26:18.280 This has happened with Elevation.
00:26:20.880 And music is the front door for many deceptive theologies today.
00:26:28.580 It's a lure that leads, you know, to much more than just an artistic song.
00:26:35.300 There's more behind that.
00:26:37.300 It's kind of a seducing step to kind of drop your guard to a more serious theological air that's going down the road.
00:26:46.120 And, you know, again, I'm not saying that everybody at Bethel or Hillsong or Elevation are all heretics.
00:26:54.160 That's not what I'm saying.
00:26:55.100 But I will say that there is some theology in that group of churches that I don't agree with.
00:27:01.780 Are there Christians inside those churches? Yes.
00:27:06.060 But there is a movement going on that's starting with the music.
00:27:11.120 And that's what I want you to catch.
00:27:13.700 And so bottom line, the only reasons pastors or worship leaders can even offer incorrect teachings and songs
00:27:21.860 is because their congregation doesn't know
00:27:24.460 what correct teaching is.
00:27:27.100 And this is a call to not accept,
00:27:30.260 you know, those teachings
00:27:31.920 that do not glorify God according to scripture.
00:27:34.540 You got to read your Bible, people.
00:27:36.480 And if for some reason they are corrected,
00:27:38.680 I've heard specifically of somebody
00:27:40.680 at one of these churches,
00:27:41.920 they get kicked out of the church.
00:27:43.700 They're not welcome back.
00:27:45.180 If they were challenged.
00:27:46.960 Yeah, meaning that they brought a challenge
00:27:49.220 to the doctrine and they were removed.
00:27:51.240 Yeah.
00:27:51.860 And so, um, yeah, guys, we live in some interesting times and music is a big part of it.
00:27:57.400 And, um, the, the, the good news is this, it's not like you don't have any other options
00:28:02.380 for great music.
00:28:03.680 Um, there are literally thousands of contemporary and classic worship songs, like some new stuff
00:28:11.240 and old stuff, uh, that, that speak nourishing doctrinal truth that you can sing, that you
00:28:19.080 can give to your children that you can fill your home with and there is no reason for any church
00:28:24.560 at this point or any christian to just accept a song uh that doesn't meet the theological truths
00:28:30.160 of the bible just because they couldn't find anything else you know so i just want to leave
00:28:34.560 you guys with that is if anything that this episode opens up your discernment
00:28:41.680 on evaluating each song that you sing to your heart to the lord
00:28:47.320 in worship is it done in not just spirit but also in truth amen okay we'll close that off with that
00:28:58.300 uh just that's that note right there um guys thank you guys for listening today if you guys um
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