Recently I received a link to a sermon preached at the Landmark church of Christ in Montgomery, AL. The preacher affirmed that mechanical instrumental music in worship is no \u201cbig deal.\u201d The sermon was posted online and clearly advances the progressive agenda that there are no absolute truths governing our religious practices.<\/p>\n
Dave Miller replied to this egregious act and a tract is available replying to the religious error espoused by this church and its leadership (This tract is available as a download from the link below or it can be ordered in hard copy from Apologetics Press.)<\/p>\n
This tract needs to be distributed and studied by the Lord\u2019s Church!<\/p>\n
The recent development at Landmark is not surprising. Such has been developing for a long time. In recent months the push for progressive change became stronger as past tolerance allowed incremental movement toward the progressive goal.<\/p>\n
Announced in its \u201c21 Days of Prayer Guide\u201d was this message: \u201cAs a key component of our month-long emphasis on serving, we are dedicating three weeks to praying as a family. From August 22 until September 11, we will meet in the Landmark Celebration Room from 6:00 AM until 6:30 AM to begin our days on our knees. Let\u2019s all plan to be part of inviting God into our day, our church, and our lives in this special way.\u00a0 September 10 – (no morning assembly at the building) – Read, meditate on, and worship with Psalm 146. Ask God to make it true in this place! All are invited to an evening of instrumental praise with your brothers and sisters in the Life Center lobby at tonight at 6:30PM.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The small, almost unnoticeable actions that pushed the \u201cold\u201d out and embraced the \u201cnew\u201d had become an unstoppable tsunami. Few, if ANY, voices of opposition were left\u2014all objectors had been silenced first by their own cowardice and then by the \u201cmob mentality\u201d which excuses deviant actions by appealing to the crowd and thus excusing the individual accountability. The problem is that the principle of personal accountability does not excuse the \u201cmob mentality.\u201d The principle governing God\u2019s Judgment Day is stated, \u201cSo then\u00a0each\u00a0one\u00a0of\u00a0us\u00a0will give an account\u00a0of\u00a0himself to God\u201d<\/em> (Romans 14:12).<\/p>\n It is sad that so many have sat silently and allowed the absolutes of God\u2019s Word to be redefined so they approve the opposite of what God has commanded. Little-by-little the progressive change is injected. It is invited into the leadership levels. It promises growth and great feelings. But such will have a future reckoning as God will not be mocked.<\/p>\n The Epistle of Jude speaks soberly to this situation: Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming,\u00a0defile the flesh, and reject authority, and revile angelic majesties\u2026But\u00a0these men revile the things which they do not understand; and\u00a0the things which they know by instinct,\u00a0like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed. Woe to them! For they have gone\u00a0the way of Cain, and for pay they have rushed headlong into\u00a0the error of Balaam, and\u00a0perished in the rebellion of Korah\u2026These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; they speak arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of gaining an\u00a0advantage\u2026\u201cIn the last time there will be mockers,\u00a0following after their own ungodly lusts.\u201d These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly minded, devoid of the Spirit (Jude 8-19).<\/p>\n