Don Wigton

are now using Wigtune praise and worship resources. We pray that these materials have provided all of you with untold blessings! The Church Growth Movement is all the rage these days. It seems that everyone wants to be a mega church and the means to attain this end is to become the seeker friendly” church. In other words, you fire the choir, organi... st and music minister in order to elevate a youth oriented contemporary worship team” in their place. As a result, while throwing the older generations under the bus in the interest of so-called evangelism”, the vast majority of the churchs musicians are relegated to the pews as the Sunday morning service is rapidly transformed into a youth service filled with contemporary Christian music at the expense of age old traditions. The praise and worship band generally has to be guitar-driven in its song leading capacity and led by a good-looking youngster who fits into a particular contemporary image.” When you are attempting to impress a world enamoured by youth by conforming to it, its all about looks. And, in the name of being commercial, the worship leader look” is a look-alike of whatever contemporary Christians artists are being promoted by the praise and worship music record companies who likewise dictate to the church what their musical formats will be. The unfortunate result of this practice of elevating novices up in this manner is that the youth put in charge is generally over his head and many times falls into sin. Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. (I Tim 3:6) As forwarded by the likes of , the rock genre that the church seeks to emulate is a very idolatrous medium where worship is generally directed towards the performer. More often than not, these immature guitar-toting worship leaders are more into the music and the entertainment aspects of rock than worship of the Lord. And because they are hired simply to attract people to the pews, churches tend not to nurture these contemporary praise song team ...Read More