Its knowing what should be toleratedand refusing to tolerate that which shouldnt.. If Roger had been so bold, we would have been saved 20 years of deception! As Jesus said in our text, vs. 19, Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.. An interesting bit is that he has one sister who is bold enough to obey the Bible and stop fellowship. In the 1960s and 1970s, television broadcasts spread white gospel music into US living rooms while Elvis Presley toured with gospel quartets. The sun is shining. salvation is only granted to those who are willing to repent of their sins. My hope for you is that God would convict you of, yes homosexuality, but also all sin. 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. Top Southern Gospel Hits - Over 1 Hour of Great Christian MusicPlease Make Sure to Like, Subscribe, Comment , and SHARE !!! A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans but not Canadians. In Luke 6:41,42 He speaks of seeing a speck in a brothers eye. Their music's defining notational feature was its use of seven shape-notes instead of the traditional four shape-notes, which were associated with more complex melodies and harmonies. Until that time what is now known as southern gospel "had simply been gospel' music to its practitioners and fans" (89). Repent of homosexuality, repent of it all! For more on the difficulties faced by black gospel singers who come out as gay see, Kelefah Sanneh, "Revelations: A Gospel Singer Comes Out," The New Yorker, February 8, 2010, 4857, http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/02/08/100208fa_fact_sanneh. The one I attended had a student band of usually four or five individuals on guitar, drums, and sometimes violin and/or cello. Southern Gospel got its start in what we know as the "Bible belt" in the southeastern United States. Prov 26:11 As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. Yet, there is good newsincredibly good news. You see, believing is more than just acknowledging the existence of Jesus, it is to put you faith in and submit to Him. Interested in submitting your work to Southern Spaces? 2 1997: Loving God & Loving Each Other 1998: Still The Greatest Story Ever Told 1999: God Is Good 2000: I Do Believe 2002: Everything Good 2003: A Cappella 2004: The Best Of The GVB 2006: Give It Away 2007: Together, feat. The act is nothing apart from the actor. In his provocative and deeply personal book, Then Sings My Soul, Douglas Harrison wants to show that a single-minded focus on southern gospel's rigidly conservative faade obscures the music's hidden transgressiveand transcendentqualities. 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). Contemporary Christian Music (CCM), for example, seemed to many in the gospel industry to be "indistinguishable from the most profane pop and rock acts of the day" (95). Judge not lest you be judged. Cant believe it? 2 (June 2009): 123141. God can set them free from their sinful nature (Romans 7:238:2), give them new desires (Ephesians 4:2224), and help them withstand temptations (1 Corinthians 10:13). Previously, I mentioned my love for CCM (Contemporary Christian Music) and Southern Gospel as a young man. Kieffer and Ruebush's decision to enter into the gospel music business reflected the "social, political, cultural, and aesthetic developments that collectively came to define the New South," writes Harrison (58). Hope Kid. Black Collar Crime: Former Catholic Youth Worker Brian Werth Spent Three Years in Prison for Sexual Abuse, Accused of Child Pornography Crimes. All hope fell when he invoked the name of the lesbian gospel saviorette, Marsha Stevens. The Christian is not judging others but simply telling the world of Gods judgment that God (not the Christian) has judged all the world as being guilty before Him (Romans 3:19,23). Dont expect repentance. Dont just acknowledge your sin,,repent from it and ask God to forgive you. Darlene, you arent smart enough to do that on your own. As far as being a homophobe, thank you. All the body activity of the SG quartets is for one simple reason-- they want to dance to the beat, and they cannot stand still. Anyway, he went from the family story to the scandal. Ask Him to bring to remembrance your secret sexual sins, the lies, the gossip, and other idle words. How could everyone possibly know all the ins and outs of a private transaction? Hypocrite comes from the Greek word for actor, or pretender. Jesus didnt condemn the woman caught in the act of adultery, but condemned those who judged her. The music was wonderful while also being inclusive. Before I was saved I hung out in the Honky Tonks a bit drinking beer. On April 26, 2005, Kenny shared the stage at Open Door. Theres also just the fact that fans dont really need or want to knowallthe sordid details of a given scandal. "Journal of Men, Masculinities, and Spirituality 3, no. I dont agree. As far as attracting new church members? Harris, Christopher (photographer) W hite gospel music, also known as "Southern gospel," represents a widespread but often overlooked aspect of US culture. Included are the sodomites mentioned in CCM and Sodomy as well as Sandi Pattis (Via Dolorosa) divorce, adultery, remarriage, and singing for sodomites. as a teen, i had to daydream about mtv music videos to get thru it. A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections. He is faithful and will welcome you with open arms. Two contributors complained that theres a culture of sweeping things under the rug when a given singer sins in some way, criticizing sunshine and roses press releases that give the false impression all is well. 1Co 5:9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: From Steven Curtis Chapmans (His Strength Is Perfect, Be Still and Know, I Will Be Here) drug addiction in his early years to Amy Grants (El Shaddai, Grown-Up Christmas List, Thy Word) multiple divorces, adultery, profanity, nudity, drugs, and vulgarity, CCM is awash with filth. Dont let your pride keep you in your sin. But I was to find later that scandals were to be the norm in CCM and Southern Gospel. Tell God you are truly sorry, then trust the Savior as you would trust yourself to a parachute. 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). I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. 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. So, thank you for making the point that homosexuals are utterly condemned to hell. The sin should be laid bare before the whole Church. The other main theme Harrison examines is how southern gospel, from its cultural origins during Reconstruction to the contemporary Bill Gaither and his Homecoming Friends phenomenon, has drawn upon nostalgia for an idyllic past and hope for a redemptive future to provide solace in the present. But heres what the Bible says anyway: They have written some very popular and well-known gospel music, such as "He Touched Me," "Thanks to Calvary," and "There's Something about That Name." I dont intend for that to reflect poorly on those performing Southern Gospel Music, that just reflects something about me. 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. Many preachers divided country music into two categories: old style and new style. 20 for NIA.) 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. Kirk Lewis Talley (born June 9, 1958), is an American Southern gospel performer and songwriter. You always get a false reading when you do that. Praise God. Goff, James R. Close Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel. In the early twentieth century, James D. Vaughan of Lawrenceburg, Tennessee became a critically important "transitional" figure in white gospel music. Many of the musical groups traveled using diesel busses. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. In 1962 a record company told a group of singers, We dont like your sound. Can you clarify? The songbooks themselves, argues Harrison, "became an early evangelical technology for managing the disorienting effects of modernization through a continuous stream of new shape-note tunes" (65). Scott L. Matthews reviews Then Sings My Soul: The Culture of Southern Gospel Music (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012) by Douglas Harrison. However, just like Kirk, Kennys road to recovery led right through a gay spot near old Little Rock. 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. Would You Advise Your Son to Join the Military? But then Southern gospel star Candy Christmas, previously known as Candy Hemphill, has good reasons for the long delay before releasing her 'On The Other Side' album."The way I think of it is that in Michigan, when they're building a new car model, they shut down all assembly lines and send everyone home. Homosexuals argue that they did not make a conscious decision to be that way, so it must be natural. You shake your head in disbelief at their foolishness. Jimmy Swaggart called him "a cancer in the body of Christ.". It is a conclusion that would resonate with equal power in Heilbut's discussion of homosexuality and hypocrisy in black gospel culture. Denying this facet of the music and its culture, he argues, obscures "the persistent role that misfits, outcasts, nonconformists, and strugglers of all sorts have played in the history of gospel music and evangelicalism more broadly" (168169). He begins by giving an overview of the entire story. The rolling in the aisles playing with yourself hoopla would have seriously snagged me as a youngster. I forgot to mention Robbie Hiner in my earlier long commet. A holy and perfect Creator has seen your thought-life and every secret sin you have ever committed. Herein lies the problem of people who judge according to outward appearances rather than by what scriptures says in effect righteous judgement (John7:24). I think we can all agree on that point. Bruce left the ministry in 2005, and in 2008 he left Christianity. A big, fat bust. a homosexual cannot be a believer in Christ. In fact, there are over 24,000 copies of New Testament manuscripts, some written within 35 years of the writers death. . In testimony language meeting gay men online with lewd photographs of oneself in order to act upon his sodomite urges while you continue to deceive the church is translated as, finding someone to talk to. Anyway, when this board finally saw that not singing was leaving him in a worse state, they let him sing again. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind him that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination. Since that day my Christian walk has taken a turn for the better and I have never been happier. Being gay is considered a sin to many religious people, so the backlash could be harsh whether coming out to family or the entire Christian music world. Lev. Despite being an atheist, Heilbut found transcendent power in the music of the black church and went on to produce records by icons such as Mahalia Jackson and Marion Williams. *cough-cough* But you get the idea.) Tell them that it is natural for them, and for all of us, to be tempted to do things that God says are wrong. Brian Free is undeniably the most recognizable southern gospel tenor of our. Man, I hate to lose my place in the charts due to everybody hatin me!!! Goodman's style, like that of Tammy Faye Bakker, represented the gospel diva's conscious and "highly visible deviation from secular American culture," a "style of adornment" that constituted the "semiotics of evangelical nonconformism"a rebuke of middle-class gender conformism (147). "Still Captivated by Southern Gospel," Religion Dispatches (Q&A with Douglas Harrison) Change). Harrison argues that Heilbut's assertion "perpetuates a heterocentric perspective that reduces nonheterosexuality to an oversimple monolith defined by its most orthodox gestures or queerest tropes" (142143). A few years back the Bishop family split up without any explanation. Ernie Haase & Signature Sound 2008: Lovin' Life 2008: Christmas Gaither Vocal Band Style When you get up the courage to warn people you care about, they will smile passively, and say, Could you be wrong in your claims about Judgment Day and the existence of hell?, Hypocrites may show up at a church building every Sunday, but there are no hypocrites in the Church (Christs body). Simon Peter, popularly known as Hope Kid, has been a good kid in the music until he landed in a similar scandal as DK. I have heard people say they know they are sinning and they need to get right with God..but they dont realize that life has an abrupt end and your time for salvation is now, not tomorrow, not next week, today. But Christians know that this great pleasure-cruiser will eventually come into contact with the immovable iceberg of the Law of God, sink into hell and take all those on board with it. However, I have of late become increasingly frustrated with the whole deal. Fans have a right to know that theyve been had. They were from three different continents, and wrote in three different languages. He hates the theft, but loves the thief. there is more hope of a fool than of him. The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times. Being a son of a preacher, he was always close to the Church; therefore, he developed unshaken faith in the services of God. I am very close to a Hyles- Anderson graduate. Where should I begin life anew?" I sympathized with some more than others, but the ones that seemed to generate the most discussion involved accountability and misleading press releases for group turnover. IFB churches are known for being anti-cultural, especially when it comes to music. Hmmm. It was written over a period of 1,600 years by more than 40 writers from all walks of life. One of Goodman's signature songs, "Looking for a City," spoke of the wayfaring pilgrim seeking transcendence from this world of oppression in a heaven that resembled a "utopic invocation of a more accepting world," according to scholars Jeffrey Bennett and Issac West (143). Hypocrisy is the practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold.. In fact, Vaughn had connections with Kieffer and Ruebush, having studied at their Virginia singing school in the early 1880s. Averyfineline: Criticism and Commentary on Southern Gospel Music (Douglas Harrison's blog) I still have reservations even about revealing that much. Somebody named Mike, who appears to be an artist, left a long comment that dealt with this particular pet peeve by saying that an individual could be permanently damaged through such an exposure. As Harrison says, southern gospel would not exist without "queers and their contributions as fans, songwriters, performers, producers, players, and industry executives." Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. 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. Imagine for a moment that you are standing on the sea-shore gazing at a large ocean liner. Salvation is not just a cheap belief There are instructions that accompany that belief statement, and you have to follow them, or you will perish. And stop picking on Kirk Talley. End of debate. 1Co 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And I suspected that the reason some of those concerts were held on Sunday nights was to attract potential Church Hoppers from other churches. Theyre not in bed with the enemy, Kirks an old friend of their cause. In his words, The bible tells us the elders who rule well are worthy of double honor, but those that sin, rebuke before all.. Why should someone be be put down because their beliefs might be your own. 1:9). You too can be happy and fulfilled like I am. Back in 2015 you had a excellent post entitled THE CHRISTIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY. If they say that they are absolutely sure, then they are wrong because their own statement is an absolute. 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. Can you settle this? Kirk claims that he hasnt spoken to her since 86. Jesus made it very plain in our text, Mt. It is a rainy, gray day here in the Northeast. It is a gift that God offers to everyone, but individuals must receive it by repenting and trusting in Christ, or they will remain dead in their sins. In reply to my satiric good-riddance-and-dont-let-the-door-hit-you-on-the-way-out virtual press release which gleefully denounces singer x as an uncontrollable perv, he advocated for a press release that makes it clear theres sin involved without going into details. If you do accept God, and do it his way, not yours, you will find the answers to the questions you ask. As one agreeing commentator put it, this falls flat in times when everybody knows theres a scandal. COGIC. (In fact I do remember a case that was so bad the group member literally disappeared without a trace. He was no stranger to the crowd. 1Co 5:9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: (For example, suppose they made it public information that one member was being fired for sin problems. Only 600 copies of Homers The Iliad exist, made 1,300 years after the originals were written. 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). 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. He and his wife have six grown children and thirteen grandchildren. I didnt play rock music for decades because I bought into the IFB standard. Putting on a good show was of utmost importance because there were other Baptist churches around, and no church wants to lose members, especially members with families to boost numbers and coffers. 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. Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding Gods law. His love for the music changed after he heard the McKameys sing twice in one week. Talley is best known for his time as a tenor singer with the legendary Gospel Quartet the Cathedrals, the Talleys, and also the family group the Hoppers, along with a very successful solo career as a singer and songwriter. It is composed and performed for many purposes, ranging from aesthetic pleasure, religious or ceremonial purposes, to an entertainment product for the marketplace. Recently, those in the know (this blogger) has personally been in contact with those who are scheduled to host Mr. Talley. 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. One of early concerts was at The Potters House Fellowship in Miami. Harrison credits Aldine S. Kieffer, a former Confederate solider, and Ephraim Ruebush, a former Union soldier with laying the foundations for southern gospel's growth during Reconstruction and into the New South Era. Congregants were encouraged to listen to southern gospel music country music with Jesus-y words. This is the claim of the Bible. It seems as though I hit a nerve, are you a sodomite?? Rev 2:21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. All hypocrites will end up in hell (Matthew 24:51). I grew up Catholic in an urban area where priests and nuns enthusiastically embraced the new Vatican II reforms. "If orthodox evangelical popular culture has a vested interest in portraying the gay-gospel connection as a sinful paradox," Harrison persuasively argues, "it is no small part an attempt to efface the fact that sinner and saint alike come to the music as nonconformistsreal or imagined, gay or straight, and everything betweendrawn to southern gospel's dramatic rendering of spiritual marginality and social misfittedness" (148). 7:18-19: a good tree produces good fruit and a bad tree produces bad fruit. Press Releases and Accountability in Southern Gospel. Its name comes from its origins in the southeastern United States. The first thing that I noticed was Kirks familiarity with the church. 1 HOUR OF SOUTHERN GOSPEL MUSIC HYMNS ON PIANO If you like video please "SUBSCRIBE" - "LIKE" - "SHARE" -"COMMENT"Stream or download all 22 Timeless, . the high screechy stuff to the extreme bass singing so loud it was hard to stand. To define oneself as "southern," as a "good ole boy," as a "redneck"to embrace southern cultural symbolsoften constituted acts of rebellion and reaction against the nation's political and economic elite and of "resistance against high taxes, liberals, racial integration, women's liberation, and hippies," as historian Bruce Schulman has noted.1Dominic Sandbrook, Mad As Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right (New York: Random House, 2012), 135137; Bruce Schulman, The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics (De Capo Press, 2002), 117. tippy('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_1490_1_1', { content: jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_1490_1_1').html(), placement: 'bottom', theme: 'sosp', arrow: false, allowHTML: true }); Assertions of whiteness animated many forms of cultural expression during this time of populist backlash, but Harrison says he found "no evidence that 'southern' gospel gained popularity primarily or even implicitly as a racialized term" even while he provides evidence of a persistent strain of racism coursing through white southern gospel during the twentieth century (97). What Harrison describes as "Vaughnism" amounts to a search for a "usable past" by an increasingly marginalized southern gospel industry seeking to legitimize its historical importance. The church where I grew up was located about 30 minutes outside Nashville with over 300 in attendance on a bad week. and to fill a void in recreational music for musically inclined Christians" (5354). well didnt you peole once accused Rock N Roll of being a part of a satanic conspiricy and Dungeons And dragons as being evil, why dont you protest against rock music anymore, could it be that its so passe, so 1980s and that the new satanic menance is us gays. As we have already mentioned, CCM and Southern Gospel are wrong on many accounts. by Roger Hahn Courtesy of Christopher Harris Jerry Lee Lewis, Mickey Gilley and Jimmy Swaggart. Then you will find yourself in a terrible dilemma. I realize it is just part of the show, but Id rather not be pointed out in most situations. Just a couple of days later, my family and I were heading out the door for a soccer game one of us was to play. His first experience was with a local group from Picayune, Mississippi. My first reaction was, But what if someone really doesjust want to spend more time with his family?I understand that there have been scandals over the years, and Ive seen plenty of rumors with varying degrees of substantiation. Such things were considered spiritual and supernatural. In John 3:16 (your verse), the Greek word translated as believe is pisteuo. Curious to who else may have shared fellowship with the church, I did some surfing. The Bakkers, PTL, and Southern Gospel Music. (I suppose I could imagine a case where its technically true. From southern gospel music concert tours to major special events, IMC is dedicated to bringing the audience an uplifting musical experience! Why dont you step back for a moment, let down your defenses to the Word of Jesus Christ and see what happens. Let he is without sin be the first to cast a stone. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. She often wore her hair in a beehive more than a foot above her head. Jesus made it very plain in our text, Mt. Friend, do not surround yourself with such people. I do agree that press releases should not be deceptive. The rise of an explicitly "southern gospel" genre, he shows, did not emerge until the 1970s and 1980s. Hell will be your just desert (exactly what you deserve), and you will have no one to blame but yourself. Still, you can't help but wonder if just "complicating" southern gospel music's "orthodox power structures," while never challenging or disrupting them, makes participation in that culture akin to complicity. well i notice the bible mentions slavery,so i can sell someone into slavery,help me out on this, its in the bible in Lev. 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. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Bruce, you wrote of your experience of Marketing Southern Gospel concerts hoping to gain Church members. Dear Bibilical Foundations, I had a friend who was a devoted southern gospel fan. John J. McCall For those of you who will throw up the whole but Joyce is too anointed to be wrong argument, let me remind you that the anointing of God is neither charisma nor talent. If they are not 100 percent sure, then there is a chance that they are wrong and they are risking their eternal salvation by trusting in a wrong belief. It is well known that Fundamentalists take the fun out of everything. R22 The Clark Sisters are COGIC and Michelle Bachmann is more LGBT tolerant than the Church of God in Christ. The existence of hell and the surety of the judgment are not the claims of fallible man. That person told me that it was forbidden to listen to Robbie Hiner at Hyles -Anderson college in the 1980s. Paul I found a website that ask "Did Mike Hopper of the Southern. Others were generals or kings, shepherds or historians. There is no wind and the sea is calm. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. The whole time Im listening to him complain, Im thinking of Numbers 32:22-23 And the land be subdued before the LORD: then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD. do not ye judge them that are within? He said that he went there and experienced a move of God more powerful than he had ever experienced in any type of church. Michael English who sang both CCM and Southern Gospel (a member of Bill Gaither vocal band) won the Male Vocalist of the Year Award and his song In Christ Alone also won Best Song of the Year. He will tell you whatever it takes to get in bed with your congregation. 15:19-24). They just enjoy the music and are sorry to see a favorite singer go. . As we have already revealed, music is powerful. I think I have said enough and answered most of the questions here. 1995: Southern Classics, Vol. Our music, there and then, was most often folk music. final in Early February 2007. those that refuse cannot be forgiven. You may not like me, you may hate me, but you cannot deny the love and holiness of God. Often, people from outside of our area would attend the concerts. His book begins with two critical questions: one personal, the other more expansive. marianne Lowest? In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her? There is a very definite reason why CCM and Southern Gospel continues to produce bad fruit. One of her most famous songs is the theologically incorrect For Those Tears I Died. . Pics Unless the sodomites rush to take down the pictures, you will see Kirk and Joyce lovingly ministering and fellowshipping with both sodomites and lesbians. 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