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This post centered around Dwane Karr’s visit to a “christian rock concert” at Parkersburg, WV’s First Presbyterian Church deserves another look for it’s content and popularity. Well here it is in it’s entirety with accompanying videos. Check it out! A real shocker!!.
STARVING PEOPLE DON’T GIVE A **** ABOUT PREACHING! by Dwane Karr
INTERVIEW VIDEO
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151362205412374&set=vb.571162373&type=2&theater
Well we almost didn’t get in. They had us pegged from the get go. I told the lady in charge that we just wanted to come in and see what it was like and she softened up. Attendance was small. We sat through four groups. I was not able to understand the lyrics of the songs. The attire of the participants was typical punk rock garb.
Video–CANT WE COME IN? https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151361988897374&set=vb.571162373&type=2&theater
I went to purchase waters for the three of us and had a conversation with the lady running the show who we had encountered before entering the building ( the one who wasn’t going to let us in). I inquired about the cause (mission trip to Missouri) of the event. She said they go on a mission trip every year and the kids work hard to pay the cost each year. I did not get to find out exactly what they do on these mission trips, but judging from the comments of a very unfriendly mother who approached us as we were leaving, good works like feeding the hungry appear to be the focus of the mission trips.
The unfriendly mother’s point was a typical one of allowing the kids to “express themselves their way” without correcting or condemning them for their behavior, thus being able to stay in their lives and steer them to remain “God centered”. Whatever that means. Her daughter sang in the second band that played. Mom was very proud of her using her “gift” for God. A local pastor who Larry knew came over and talked with us between bands. His son played in one of the bands. This pastor explained how many of the bands started out “Christian” using “God and “Jesus” in their songs, then later go more mainstream and change “God” and “Jesus” to more generic names like “Him” and “The One”. After he left, Larry said, “He knows its wrong”. Before he left the pastor said one band we heard had a really good message, but he wasn’t able to understand enough of their words to really know what the song said??????? The pastor also said that when the message was good it had a greater effect when the band drove it home powerfully.
In the end, I don’t have a feeling of strong rebuke in me. Truly, I feel sad in my soul. I believe the woman running things loves the kids and sees this approach as the ONLY WAY she can stay in her daughters and the rest of the kids lives…to positively influence them and “Keep Them God Centered”. These people are scared they will push away the kids by trying to enforce Biblical standards on them. Here is the place it all goes off course. The Book (AV1611 Holy Bible) is abandoned while allowing the kids to live sinful lives as long as you can keep them in church. Bottom line: These are typical ( in today’s society) rebellious kids who are allowed to live their lives as they see fit as long as they will conform to a set of rules acceptable to Catholics and Universalists everywhere (Basically, don’t have filthy lyrics in the songs and wear enough clothes to cover your private parts).
In the end there is no mention of salvation or a need for a new birth involved in this rock ministry. First Presbyterian at Parkersburg, WV and this program is purely a “works” based religion. Like the world’s heroes, (Mother Teresa, Gandhi, etc) they are concerned about supplying bread for the hungry, rather than the BREAD OF LIFE. The lady who confronted us in the parking lot before we left made their position on the Bible and the gospel of Jesus Christ very clear when she said, “Starving people don’t give a DAMN about PREACHING, they just want something to eat!” That sums up the “Jamming for Jesus” crowd in a nutshell. Their reality is the physical realm. Sadly, they have no concept of the invisible spiritual realm. What they fail to realize is that God is a Spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in SPIRIT and in TRUTH.
Bro. Dwane Karr
