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Dane Ortlund Wants to Make Sure You Don’t Reject Hillsong Music Just Because It Sounds Happy

by | Dec 8, 2021 | heresy, News, The Church | 0 comments

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Hillsong music has been soundly rejected by many top theologians including John MacArthur, Justin Peters, and many others on the basis that the music itself lacks not only theological substance, but that by purchasing or playing this music can only be translated into a support for the aberrant Hillsong prosperity gospel movement.

Hillsong has been in trouble in recent years with its mounting scandals–including multiple sex scandals–but its troubles began far before any of that came to light. The Church, which has been led for years by Brian Houston out of its Sydney, Australia location, has always been known for its watered-down gospel and its compromises.

The Hillsong cult attracts people through entertainment and keeps them there by their addiction. They have it down to an exact science. They know what sells and they know what keeps customers. Whether it be their watered-down music, their nuanced affirmation of homosexuals, that they hold Roman Catholic masses, that they produce sleazy renditions of Silent Night during Christmas or pose a nearly naked man on stage at a women’s conference, that they defend abortion and complain about the death penalty, or that celebrities love them because they “don’t teach that book with Moses and stuff,” one thing is for sure, they know what the world — a world in rebellion to God — likes.

Yet, Dane Ortlund, popular author and a contributor to The Gospel Coalition, wants to make sure that you’re not rejecting their music just because it sounds happy.

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I’m sure Mr. Ortlund means well with this statement, but he obviously didn’t think this through. Nobody–literally nobody–actually rejects Hillsong because of this reason. In fact, it’s typically the exact opposite. People who don’t actually take the time to study the music they sing in church are typically the ones who are given to hyper-emotional manipulative music like Hillsong music.

But again, it isn’t even necessarily the emotion that is the problem unless the emotion is getting in the way of genuine worship. There is nothing wrong with being emotional during worship, but people who reject Hillsong music know why they do.

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