billiefan2000
April 14th, 2008, 11:10 AM
Granger Community Church: Where Van Halen Leads the Worship
We are told in the Scriptures that the one true God is thrice holy.
In Isaiah 6 we are given an awe-inspiring picture of that holiness as the prophet sees the Lord, high and lifted up, his train filling the temple.
Above Him stood the Seraphim, those incredible beings with wings to cover even their faces from God’s brightness, and one cried to another,
“Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of Hosts.
The whole earth is full of His glory!”
Again and again the Scriptures we are given a sense of God’s fear-inducing holiness that caused people to fall on their faces and cry out at His presence. When exposed to the holiness (separateness)
and righteousness of God, a person’s sense of their own sin is magnified. Our own unworthiness and utter dependence on God’s mercy is made plain.
To use Van Halen in public “worship” of our Holy God is an act of blasphemy for those who once belonged to the god of this world and were on the road to hell.
Everything they signified as an 80’s band was war with God and His commands.
When the character of God, as described in His eternal Word, is ignored in worship and a new god is erected that not only tolerates the celebration of sinful flesh but celebrates it,
you have a false church.
Granger Community Church used Van Halen in their worship on March 1 and 2 to set up a sermon entitled,
“Tight Like Spandex”. They have posted the video on their website under the “I Love the 80’s” series on this page.
http://www.gccwired.com/streampage.asp?pageID=135
To do this is worshiping a golden calf in Christ’s name, blaspheming the most high God and defiling His name with the filth of this world.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
–Romans 8:7-9
http://www.sliceoflaodicea.com/?p=606
We are told in the Scriptures that the one true God is thrice holy.
In Isaiah 6 we are given an awe-inspiring picture of that holiness as the prophet sees the Lord, high and lifted up, his train filling the temple.
Above Him stood the Seraphim, those incredible beings with wings to cover even their faces from God’s brightness, and one cried to another,
“Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of Hosts.
The whole earth is full of His glory!”
Again and again the Scriptures we are given a sense of God’s fear-inducing holiness that caused people to fall on their faces and cry out at His presence. When exposed to the holiness (separateness)
and righteousness of God, a person’s sense of their own sin is magnified. Our own unworthiness and utter dependence on God’s mercy is made plain.
To use Van Halen in public “worship” of our Holy God is an act of blasphemy for those who once belonged to the god of this world and were on the road to hell.
Everything they signified as an 80’s band was war with God and His commands.
When the character of God, as described in His eternal Word, is ignored in worship and a new god is erected that not only tolerates the celebration of sinful flesh but celebrates it,
you have a false church.
Granger Community Church used Van Halen in their worship on March 1 and 2 to set up a sermon entitled,
“Tight Like Spandex”. They have posted the video on their website under the “I Love the 80’s” series on this page.
http://www.gccwired.com/streampage.asp?pageID=135
To do this is worshiping a golden calf in Christ’s name, blaspheming the most high God and defiling His name with the filth of this world.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
–Romans 8:7-9
http://www.sliceoflaodicea.com/?p=606