2024年5月7日 星期二

63. No longer Music

 

David, his wife and I

Most Christians don't know very well that heavy metal rock music can glorify the Lord. At New Zealand, Youth With A Mission, the Disciple Training School I attended invited No Longer Music lead singer David came to give a week of lessons, we students went to the city center for two days to invite young people to the tavern to listen to heavy metal rock music, David and his band sang in bars or pubs all over the world, many taverns or bars because the people who came were all converted, recently the places changed to the churches, because Jesus is the Lord of the resurrection, He is always doing new things.

The first time I served with a member of an orchestra who didn't have permanent music, I was so nervous that I kept going to the toilet because I saw that the male members were all long hair shawls, and I was very scared, and when we joined them in their long battles and prayers, and saw the glory of God on their faces, they became the appearance of young people in the West, but they had the heart of Jesus in them, and they wrote their own songs, all of which were fast versions of gospel songs, expressed in rock and pop music.

David would ask young people, "Is sex good?" and the young people would reply, "Yes!" but the lyrics said that God's creativity is good, but not premarital sex. They performed a skit of the resurrection of Jesus, and a brother in the group was hung upside down to play the guitar for 20 minutes, and their amusing speech, or act, or sing to attract young people were often the key to saving people's souls.

The pop group was named after the fact that there is no longer music, because they believed that the music in heaven was permanent and that there would be a day when the earth would fade away. Although I am not a fan of heavy metal rock, I have come to understand what the Apostle Paul said that in order to win souls, he must be like them, and that this band will never have a member go to a bar alone, but as a Christian band, in some dark tavern, the Lord will win souls like fishes.

The head of the mission, David, said, "Without prayer, there is no ministry, and there is no evangelism. Have we prayed for others, and what kind of evangelistic tools have been used to become the results of our evangelism, which is worth pondering?

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