it is not homophobic to say that homosexuality is a sin. America and Kluck, Kluck, Kluck, Using Gospel Music's Secrets to Confront Black Homophobia, Review of Anthony Heilbut's 'The Fan Who Knew Too Much. He was no stranger to the crowd. Think of it. I was heartbroken. Stop fighting God. Prov 26:12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? Even though my musical taste takes me across other lines, I love Southern Gospel music. In Christ Alone was an instant hit being proclaimed by famous athletes and such and being sung in churches around the world. McCall Music Ministry. My Experience with Religious Fundamentalism and Bipolar Disorder, Dear Evangelical, Just Because You Quote the Bible Doesnt Make Your Comment True. Rap Music? Bruce Gerencser, 65, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 44 years. The Bible should be read with discernment. Cant believe it? Gospel, he said, "wasn't merely about making it, but about doing so in spite of your enemies." Hell will be your just desert (exactly what you deserve), and you will have no one to blame but yourself. I dont recall any of the singers on Jerry Falwell OLD TIME GOSPEL HOUR the few times I got to watch the program in the late 70s/early 80s. In the context of the verse Jesus is telling His disciples not to judge one another, something the Bible condemns (Romans 14:10; James 4:11). IFB can be very controlling and judgemental. But, when it comes to southern gospel music, these same preachers ignore the fact that this style of music is a spiritualized form of entertainment. The decade's top Christian music from Michael W. Smith, 4Him, Rebecca St. James, and Steven Curti Channel of the Day: Music from "HitKast Girl Power", Birthday: Country star Tim McGraw (5/1/67), Brand-New Crowdsourced Channel: "Loneliness". It will be the end. Is IFB Preacher Jack Schaap a Model Prisoner? Each of those writers (who professed to be godly) therefore bore false witness, transgressing the very commandments they claimed to be true. By the way, nothing wrong with dancing, same as with music, it might mean more to me if I had the rhythm/musical talents within my being. 1Co 5:12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? But I was to find later that scandals were to be the norm in CCM and Southern Gospel. Published at the end of the Reconstruction Era in 1877, The Temple Star, their most popular tunebook, sold more than a half-million copies (5152). Let he is without sin be the first to cast a stone. Heres the bad news if the Bible is right and that there is eternal justice: You will find yourself standing before the judgment throne of a holy God, who has seen every sin you have ever committed. White gospel executives and major gospel groups in the 1970s like the Happy Goodmans saw CCM as a "hippie-oriented" threat to their dominance among white evangelicals. In John 3:16 (your verse), the Greek word translated as believe is pisteuo. Heilbut, Anthony. But the Bible stands alone. You will never understand this until you allow conviction to enter your heart. Do you have a better idea? I listened to Robbie Hiner on the YouTube Bruce linked. I had faithfully watched the entire Dove Awards that year. His book begins with two critical questions: one personal, the other more expansive. If anyone else enjoys it ( I suspect that possibly millions of people do enjoy it) that is fine with me. Rev 2:24 But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden. the only message i heard when i played stairway to heaven backwards where there is a bustle in your hedgerow was jami needs some pudding. Where should I begin life anew?" Greatest Southern Gospel Music Of All Time | The Best Playlist Of Old Southern GospelGreatest Southern Gospel Music Of All Time | The Best Playlist Of Old So. In his words, The bible tells us the elders who rule well are worthy of double honor, but those that sin, rebuke before all.. It is addictive, and when someone is addicted to something others around you get hurt especially when they try to take it away from you. For almost a decade, he has maintained a blog on southern gospel music at averyfineline.com that attracts "orthodox fans and professionals who regularly and vociferously dissent from [his] secular humanist approach . Southern gospel music (sometimes marketed as quartet music) is a sub-genre of gospel music. Its lyrics are written to express either personal or a communal faith regarding biblical teachings and Christian life, as well as (in terms of the varying music styles) to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music. Years and a divorce later, Kenny admitted to his bar-hopping ways. Then Sings My Soul focuses on the culture of white southern gospel music while acknowledging the "long history of stylistic exchange and mutual influence" with black gospel music and their near parallel commercial development during the early and middle twentieth century. So be it. 1Co 6:11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. 1Co 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Since 1982, he has been at the forefront of southern. But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. The Bible teaches separation from the world. What do you think? Looking out on a forlorn landscape, he wondered "What could be done? Included are the sodomites mentioned in CCM and Sodomy as well as Sandi Pattis (Via Dolorosa) divorce, adultery, remarriage, and singing for sodomites. You may have forgotten your past sins, but God hasnt. . Southern Gospel Music Association In 1866, the pair created "Ruebush & Kieffer," a gospel tune book publishing company at Singers Glen, Rockingham County, Virginia, an early nineteenth-century settlement in the Shenandoah Valley founded by Joseph Funk and German Anabaptists in the early nineteenth century (5960). 4. White gospel embraced "southern" as a way to assert traditionalism, authenticity, and relevancy (8596). Evangelizing the Lost: Do You Have Blood on Your Hands? Contemporary Christian music (CCM)? Why does it seem that individuals assume that Bible believing Christians are always unfulfilled and unhappy? Our church was used by pastors as a stepping stone to larger churches (usually ones in the Nashville area). Rev 2:19 I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first. Because the music they wrote, the songs they sang, and the lives they lived were pure. New York: Random House, 2012. Hope and motivation when times seem dark Christian Rock from the '70s through the early '90s, Your favorite contemporary worship music, with today's top songs and classics too, Streams in the desert to comfort your soul, The biggest CCM hits of 2010 through today. See 1 John 3:46. The songs, and the emerging style of southern gospel music they typified, "offered people a powerful language in which to express complicated feelings of fear and faith, to voice a nostalgic longing for what had been lost, and to work toward a better life here in this world by singing of their pietistic hopes for a brighter day hereafter" (53). He was suicidal because he was going to lose everything. The benefits of southern gospel certainly outweigh the burdens for Harrison. You therefore have no right to judge me when it comes to my sins!, The world often takes this verse out of context and uses it to accuse Christians of being judgmental when they speak of sin. I remember hearing the Talleys in concert and Kirk has always sounded like a sincere Christian which proves to me that the idea that gays are evil is all in the mind. That was in the day that it was legal for 18 year olds to drink 3.2 beer. In 1956, a performer named J. D. Sumner recorded a song in "flamboyant black dialect" (99). Paul I found a website that ask "Did Mike Hopper of the Southern. No doubt Southern Gospel is one of my favorite genres of music. You right wingers are all alike. By his own admission, 2004 was the worst year of his life. As Harrison says, southern gospel would not exist without "queers and their contributions as fans, songwriters, performers, producers, players, and industry executives." 1Co 5:10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. If you dont believe it, it is still true. God made me to be a homosexual, so He doesnt want me to change.. Baby steps. In the 1990s, I went through a CCM phase, thinking that if I brought in name groups, doing so would attract people to our church. Harrison's mission is to reveal southern gospel music's mutability, its capacity to "deconstruct the very orthodox doctrines it depicts." IFB preachers are known for their anti-entertainment preaching. As we have already revealed, music is powerful. The sun is shining. My hope for you is that God would convict you of, yes homosexuality, but also all sin. Jerry Falwell concurred, calling him, "the greatest scab and cancer on the face of Christianity in 2,000 years of church history.". In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her? He argues that the black gospel tradition emphasizes the music's emotional soulfulness and "spiritual improvisation" while white evangelicals use gospel as a proselytizing tool akin to a Protestant sermon. Yes, they had been legally seperated for 1 year and Mike filed for. Beloved believe not every spirit but try the spirits whether they are of God, for many false Christs have gone out into the world. God knows those who love Him, and the Bible warns that He will sort out the true converts from the false on the Day of Judgment. She wore gaudy jewelry, floor-length flowing gowns of "clashing pastels," and "too much perfume" (142). salvation is only granted to those who are willing to repent of their sins. While he does not dismiss the idea that "southern" emerged in part as a racialized term to distinguish it from black gospel, he argues that the use of "southern" was mostly the culmination of an identity crisis for an increasingly commercialized genre that seemed to have lost touch with its pious past and sectional roots. Get on your knees today, confess and forsake your sins. To that end, he writes that he is "particularly indebted to autoethnography for empowering scholars to mobilize personal experiences too long deprecated by humanist scholarship" (14). Bill and Gloria Gaither represent the heart of Southern Gospel today. Dont expect repentance. If racism and distinct understandings of gospel music's meaning and purpose have reinforced its separation as genres, white and black gospel can, nevertheless, find common ground with their shared traditions of homophobia. I think we can all agree on that point. Thank you again for reminding us that Gods word is eternal and unchanging. A big, fat bust. Taken together, these political forces and cultural expressions constitute a backlash against the social and political upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s that left the nation's white working class searching for a sense of identity and belonging in a country they no longer recognized. *Bruce, thanks again for your work and your contributors and those that comment. Im liking my option of simply not saying anything at all in certain cases, which seems to split the difference between outright lying to fans on the one hand and TMI on the other. Repent of homosexuality, repent of it all! Talley has since become persona non grata in the southern gospel music world despite his admission of "sin" and his willingness to do penance through "reparative" therapy (138139). Goodman's overtly emotional and bombastic style of singing, along with lyrics that resonated with the plight of many queer gospel fans, made her an icon. The acts were identical, right down to the lead singer gesticulating at the exact same time and kicking off her shoes. (LogOut/ I can still, with my minds ear, hear the church music I loved the most. He destroyed the power of the grave for all who obey Him. He said that he went there and experienced a move of God more powerful than he had ever experienced in any type of church. That is very Unchristian as far as I am concerned. If you know your Bible, you should have given the man a sincere and humane answer or been honest enough to admit that you didnt know. Mark my words, the silent church will be the lost church! Werewolf, thank you for your response. Some persons have labored hard to set up this ridiculous and absurd abstraction, and would fain make it appear that God is angry at sin, yet not at the sinner. Like my friend Brian who commented from Southern Gospel Critique, I tend to look on the bright side of the industry. Stewart has been involved in Southern Gospel Music since the age of 15. Bruce Gerencser, 65, lives in rural Northwest Ohio with his wife of 44 years. by Roger Hahn Courtesy of Christopher Harris Jerry Lee Lewis, Mickey Gilley and Jimmy Swaggart. But does the Church need to market music just to make a buck in the name of Jesus? Anyone caught with a Bible would be executed. Lowest? It is the last time Ive been in a Catholic church/chapel except for weddings and funerals. In keeping with his focus on southern gospel music's ecumenical appeal and contingent meanings, Harrison takes a methodological approach "as multidimensional as the culture itself" (16). Recently, those in the know (this blogger) has personally been in contact with those who are scheduled to host Mr. Talley. Now, this revelation came to his family at this time. The sin has no moral character apart from the sinner. You always get a false reading when you do that. Rev 2:18 And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass; Les Butler has been actively involved in Southern Gospel Music for 42 years as a musician, producer, manager, former publisher of the Singing News, and as a nationally syndicated radio host. However, those who trust God have no problem harmonizing the Gospels. Heilbut, the noted gospel music producer and author of The Gospel Sound,2Anthony Heilbut, The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971). Congregants were encouraged to listen to southern gospel music country music with Jesus-y words. What I found wasnt surprising to me, but it was disappointing. A commenter flat-out made this demand in his own list of pet peeves: Dont sugar coat it. The tree is bad to begin with . Ever the marketer, I advertised these concerts, hoping to draw large crowds. Although an academic, Harrison is careful to distinguish himself from "humanist scholars" who have tended to treat "conservative evangelical values and culture as a curious artifact from some socially recalcitrant land that time forgot" (2). . They just enjoy the music and are sorry to see a favorite singer go. You apply the word believe as though it means to acknowledge the existence of something. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Just nothing. The good tree produced good music. I have to tell you that you may not read you Bible correctly. As a youth growing up in New York, Heilbut suffered taunts from bullies and found refuge in black gospel music. It unites fans and singers in the recognition that "all God's children are called to bear their crosses alone." Herein lies the problem of people who judge according to outward appearances rather than by what scriptures says in effect righteous judgement (John7:24). The word means one who fears homosexuals. Such things were considered spiritual and supernatural. I gave up on Catholicism in my last couple of years of college; I had many mixed feelings about Christianity, and suspected that the Catholic Church was not a most authentic version (I would later dabble in Evangelical Christianity before concluding that the whole thing was BS). The definition would be as such, to have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing), that is, credit; by implication to entrust (especially ones spiritual well being to Christ): believe (-r), commit (to trust), put in trust with. The pastor who led me to the Lord, though, preached a few messages against CCM. Matter of fact he spent exactly 37 minutes and 21 seconds blaming everyone else for the pain he had gone through. Religion Dispatches Harrison's candor about his personal connections to southern gospel, his love for the music's transcendent qualities, and, most importantly, his openness about how his sexuality has shaped his experiences with the music and industry make his book a powerful and effective example of self-reflexive scholarship. Get back to the old paths and the old hymns. No regrets of homosexuality breaking up his marriage, driving away his sister, or causing his lifelong depression. Most of our hymns came from times of revival. The seven-shape system attempted to "improve the quality of congregational music making by teaching as many people as possible how to sight-read . Denice works for the Sea Sharp Music. "Southern Gospel Sissies: Evangelical Music, Queer Spirituality, and the Plays of Del Shores. Ive heard of people who sinned but felt remorse and gradually turned their life back around. In 1954 a music manager told a young singer, You ought to go back to driving a truck. That singer was Elvis Presley. 1Co 5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. Now, to get to the verse I know some of you are waiting to throw at me. The ability to reconcile tensions between old and new, orthodoxy and heterodoxy, queer and straight, represents "a key psychodynamic dimension of modern southern gospel" (60). While he is right that race is not the only story and has not been a dominate concern for southern gospel performers (they have tended to worry about redemption and salvation), racial fears and white supremacy have still wormed their way into white gospel throughout the twentieth century. Now, I cant condemn him for something of which he claims repentance. (LogOut/ Harrison, Douglas. In the early twentieth century, James D. Vaughan of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee became a critically important "transitional" figure in white gospel music. Rev 2:22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. Yet their words sound like they came from the same source. 20 for NIA.) Choirs, consequently, are rare in white southern gospel. As an IFB pastor, I regularly scheduled Southern gospel groups to sing at our church. For them, southern gospel music was a drug; something that gave them a "spiritual" pick-me-up. It's titled "Scandalous," and after several years in smaller venues, the musical opened on Broadway last night. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as it suggests in Exodus 21:7. there is more hope of a fool than of him. 1Co 5:9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: They wrote on hundreds of controversial subjects yet they wrote with agreement and harmony. How much did white gospel's adoption of "southern" represent broader changes such as the rise of conservative populism in US politics and culture during the 1970s and into the 1980s? Though publishers and song writers would not begin labeling it "gospel" music until later in the 1870s, the genre's early manifestation, according to Harrison, performed a kind of cultural work that provided evangelicals with melodies and messages that helped them find meaning and stability in a rapidly modernizing world. Some were fishermen; some were politicians. Groups who sang at our church included: David Meece, Sierra, Annie Herring (2nd Chapter of Acts), and NIA. Darlene, you arent smart enough to do that on your own. the high screechy stuff to the extreme bass singing so loud it was hard to stand. Charles Finney stated, God is not angry merely against the sin abstracted from the sinner, but against the sinner himself. Those who say that there are no absolutes are often very adamant about their belief. As one agreeing commentator put it, this falls flat in times when everybody knows theres a scandal. Songs sung from books like Southern Harmony relied on the four shape-note system and often used the pentatonic scale or other gapped scales that gave the music a more primitive and haunting air. ." divorce in late October 2006 and the divorce was granted and became. What some have referred to as the "Southernization" of the nation manifested itself in George Wallace's ability to tap into the rage of a transregional white working class, the influence of evangelical Virginians Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, the growing popularity of southern rock acts like Lynyrd Skynyrd who proudly displayed the Confederate battle flag, the explosion of country music radio stations across the nation, and the popularity of television shows like the Dukes of Hazzard. He and his wife attended numerous southern gospel concerts every year. This could be music sung by solo artists, family bands and trios and quartets. The Bible clearly directs this passage to those who are in the fellowship of the church. 5. . I have tried asking, but most women take offense. He paid our fine so that we could leave the courtroom. Jimmy Swaggart Biography - Facts, Family Life, Career, Scandals Jimmy Swaggart (Televangelist) Jimmy Swaggart is an American televangelist and gospel music performer. Yet, despite all the anti-music preaching, congregants especially teens and college students continued to listen to worldly music. Trust me, it really works! Referencing Dan Savage's "It Gets Better Project," Heilbut recalls that gospel "grounded me and kept me sane, not because it gets better,' but because for most people, it does not." Now this is supreme nonsense! Old-style country was grudgingly permitted, but new style country was verboten no different from rock music.
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