Only Gospel Music?

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

I was asked!

Should a believer listen to none gospel music?

 My response:

Those who make musical beats are not stupid. It's the reason when certain beats hit your ears, you start shaking your legs. Then up on your feet till it consumes you and your atmosphere. Every music on earth is a worship to something or someone. Producers of music are very intentional about the lyrics. The sound and the audience. Music was also one of the few major things Jesus and the apostles were silent on.

The ear of a man is the only gate in his body constantly open. It receives and has capacity to make the whole body move. Make the head turn. When a gate is constantly open, then, wisdom requires you to be on guard always. Intruders, unwanted guests are lurking around.

In over twenty years, I have not had any none gospel music on my phone, laptop or any device at home. The temptation to listen is just not there. 

My view is simple, I belong to a kingdom and we have our own music.

Happy to hear your view on this if you visit a supposed Christian gathering and the musical atmosphere is everything but godly.

William James Roop

Roop-Crappell Ministries

Hospice Care and Dying

The Trucking Tango

A Dead Man Saves Many!

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

 One stormy night in 1910, a group of traveling musicians arrived at the city of Riga in Latvia to fulfill a concert engagement.  However it was raining heavily and the weather was very bad.  The conductor of the orchestra tried to cancel the concert so that they could catch the next boat to go to Helsinki, Finland.  The Manager of the concert hall refused to cancel but he agreed that if no one came to the concert, then, they could cancel it. 

When the musicians arrived at the concert hall they found only one person sitting in the audience… he was a stout old man who seemed to smile at everyone.  Because of this one old man, the musicians were forced to play the entire concert and were unable to leave early to catch the boat.

After the concert was over the old man who was their only audience continued sitting in his seat.
Thinking he was asleep, an usher nudged his shoulder.  Only then was it discovered that the old man was dead.  The musicians had played the entire concert for a dead man!

But, ironically, in doing this they had actually saved their own lives because the boat that they would have taken to Finland sank that very night with a complete loss of life!

Through Adam’s one act of disobedience, death came to us all.  But because of Christ’s life of perfect obedience… which led Him to die on the cross for our sins…life may come to us all!

Have you accepted Jesus’ gift of salvation?

 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16

The Plan of Salvation is found in the Book of Acts 2:38: Repent, and be baptized for the remission of your sins, and you will receive the Holy Spirit by speaking in another language. Acts 2:38.

Story by Pastor Doug Batchelor, Amazing Facts Daily Devotional, Concert for a Dead Man, August 20, 2019.

William James Roop, M.A.B.S.

Roop-Crappell Ministries

Hospice Care and Dying

The Trucking Tango

Apostolic Theological Seminary