PROTESTANT HYMNS——
SHOULD THE 7TH DAY CHURCHES OF GOD USE THEM?
THERE IS A MOVEMENT, AND HAS BEEN FOR ABOUT 50 YEARS, IN SOME 7TH DAY SABBATH OBSERVING CHURCHES OF GOD [MAINLY FROM THE BRANCH OF THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD, UNDER HERBERT ARMSTRONG], TO NOT SING “PROTESTANT HYMNS.’
NOW FOR YOU WHO ARE IN SUCH GROUPS, LET ME TELL YOU I WAS WITH THE WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD UNDER HERBERT ARMSTRONG FROM 1961 TO 1972. LET ME TELL YOU THAT IN THE 1960s OUR HYMNAL WAS PROTESTANT HYMNS.
IT WAS A COMMON CORRECT TEACHING THAT ALL PROTESTANT [AND CATHOLIC] CHURCHES WERE IN SPIRITUAL DECEPTION; BLINDED AND NOT CALLED TO UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE AND THE TRUE WAY OF SALVATION; BUT WOULD BE ONE DAY. HENCE MOST OF THE PEOPLE IN THE CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT WORLD WOUND BE IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD, IN DUE TIME, IN GOD’S APPOINTED TIME IN HIS PLAN OF SALVATION FOR ALL.
SO THEN, THE VAST MAJORITY OF CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS WILL BE OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN GOD’S KINGDOM.
WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU GOING TO SAY TO THEM ABOUT REJECTING THEIR HYMNS?
THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF PROTESTANT HYMNS THAT HAVE CORRECT WORDS AND BEAUTIFUL MELODIC MELODIES.
LOOK UP —— TRUST AND OBEY
LOOK UP —— FOR THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH
LOOK UP ——- AMAZING GRACE
LOOK UP ——- TILL WE MEET AGAIN
LOOK UP ——- BLESSED ASSURANCE
AND ETC. ETC. FOR MANY DOZENS UPON DOZENS MORE.
SOME MAY NEED A WORD OR TWO CHANGED HERE AND THERE.
BUT THE FACT IS WE HAVE MANY, SO MANY, WONDERFULLY WRITTEN HYMNS AND WONDERFULLY HARMONIC MELODIES.
IT IS NOT WRONG TO SET THE PSALMS TO MUSIC, OR WRITE NEW SPIRITUAL SONGS.
BUT LISTEN, AND LISTEN GOOD—— YOU CHILDREN OF GOD—— IT IS A CULTIC MIND-SET THAT TEACHES WE ABOLISH WONDERFUL PROTESTANT HYMNS!
DEVELOPING A CULTIC MIND-SET IS NOT FROM GOD—— ONLY ONE OTHER PLACE IT COMES FROM—— YEP YOU KNOW, THE GREATEST OF DECEIVERS!
Keith Hunt
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