The Bakkers, PTL, and Southern Gospel Music. In keeping with his focus on southern gospel music's ecumenical appeal and contingent meanings, Harrison takes a methodological approach "as multidimensional as the culture itself" (16). If you know your Bible, you should have given the man a sincere and humane answer or been honest enough to admit that you didnt know. Bruce pastored Evangelical churches for twenty-five years in Ohio, Texas, and Michigan. Its name comes from its origins in the southeastern United States. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life See it. Southern gospel music. even as a kid i knew it was fake. Early career To your amazement, about thirty people suddenly dive off the end of the ship and cling to a lifeboat. Harrison argues this in part by focusing on the popularity of the gospel singer Vestal Goodman, the late matriarch of the popular southern gospel group the Happy Goodmans. By 1930, over one billion Bibles had been distributed by Bible societies around the world. Curious to who else may have shared fellowship with the church, I did some surfing. IFB preachers are known for their anti-entertainment preaching. Scripture itself teaches you that whoever would fellowship with sodomites and lesbians are enemies of God. This will show him that he is guilty of breaking Gods holy Law, and he is damned not because of, but despite his sexual preference. In Then Sings My Soul he attempts nothing less than to "reimagine southern gospel music as abidingly indebted to a fundamentally queer aesthetic"not simply a genre of music that possesses an aesthetic that happens to attract queers (140). This article will only touch a little corner of this widespread problem, specifically the most visual, yet ignored, homosexual and pro-homosexual artists. Hell will be your just desert (exactly what you deserve), and you will have no one to blame but yourself. However, just like Kirk, Kennys road to recovery led right through a gay spot near old Little Rock. Todays Gospel hits along with your favorites, Christian Country from yesterday and today, all with a positive message, Christian adult pop from 2000 through 2009, The best Christian Rock of today and from the 2000's, The best in Christian music from the '70s to the early 2000s, Get encouraged and inspired by R&B and gospel greats like Mary Mary, Smokie Norful, and more. For example, the four Gospels give four differing accounts as to what was written on the sign that hung on the cross. Reason being, I never paid much attention to musical performances back then, it was time to go to Church or later I was always helping on a Church bus route, and, of course, at that time it was a sin to be watching TV anyway in the IFB. If you decide to go to the site and listen, here are a few words and phrases that you will fail to hear: repent, sin, I take responsibility, deliverance, abomination, hell, Im sorry, I deserve the fruit of my sin, I beg forgiveness. Thank you again for reminding us that Gods word is eternal and unchanging. Kieffer returned from war and found a "ruined country, poverty stricken people, and no currency!" Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding Gods law. 2. For an audience in a gay bar, writes Harrison, gospel drag "transmutates the gospel classic into a call for action on the part of the audience" (144). Religion and American Culture 18, no. As we have already mentioned, CCM and Southern Gospel are wrong on many accounts. Averyfineline: Criticism and Commentary on Southern Gospel Music (Douglas Harrison's blog) Before I was saved I hung out in the Honky Tonks a bit drinking beer. As a youth growing up in New York, Heilbut suffered taunts from bullies and found refuge in black gospel music. As one might expect, the lyrics of Southern gospel music concern themselves with sin and the saving grace of the Lord . The rolling in the aisles playing with yourself hoopla would have seriously snagged me as a youngster. 1995: Southern Classics, Vol. What upset him, you ask? Another friend of mine spent several years traveling with well-known southern gospel groups. Interested in submitting your work to Southern Spaces? 1Co 5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. In 1866, the pair created "Ruebush & Kieffer," a gospel tune book publishing company at Singers Glen, Rockingham County, Virginia, an early nineteenth-century settlement in the Shenandoah Valley founded by Joseph Funk and German Anabaptists in the early nineteenth century (5960). So, thank you for making the point that homosexuals are utterly condemned to hell. A regular reader, JSR, replied that he felt public rebuke was biblical procedure when it came to people involved in the ministry, and southern gospel is a kind of ministry. Have You Heard About This Christian Scandal? | U.S. News Top southern gospel artists | Last.fm He said that he went there and experienced a move of God more powerful than he had ever experienced in any type of church. Yes, they had been legally seperated for 1 year and Mike filed for. Jesus made it very plain in our text, Mt. One of Goodman's signature songs, "Looking for a City," spoke of the wayfaring pilgrim seeking transcendence from this world of oppression in a heaven that resembled a "utopic invocation of a more accepting world," according to scholars Jeffrey Bennett and Issac West (143). In 1954 a music manager told a young singer, You ought to go back to driving a truck. That singer was Elvis Presley. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. The Bible places these heroes of the stage outside of that fellowship. Can you clarify? Dear Bibilical Foundations, The Independent Fundamentalist Baptist (IFB) circles I ran in thought southern gospel music was Gods music. Those who reject the Bible should take the time to look at the evidence before they come to a verdict. However, when the religious trappings are stripped away, whats left is entertainment. I dont recall any of the singers on Jerry Falwell OLD TIME GOSPEL HOUR the few times I got to watch the program in the late 70s/early 80s. Do it now. The rest of the story is littered with his prideful account of how GQ treated him better than the Christian media. Its an industry baby gotta have that money thing happening in order to be right! You may have forgotten your past sins, but God hasnt. Rev 2:19 I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first. 1 (2008): 2758. Yet their words sound like they came from the same source. http://www.religiondispatches.org/books/rd10q/6158/still_captivated_by_southern_gospel.
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