A Seventh-day Adventist Church Hosted a Sabbath Rap, Pop, and Dynamic Christian Music Concert with Songs by Janet Jackson and Naughty by Nature

"Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one." Job 14:4.

On Sabbath, May 27, 2023, starting at 5:00 p.m., the Beacon Light Tabernacle Seventh-day Adventist Church in Wappingers Falls, NY, hosted the 27th Anniversary celebration of God's Hands, a Seventh-day Adventist music and dance ministry. The concert included a variety of dance performances as well as secular songs by artists like Janet Jackson, such as "What Have You Done for Me Lately?" and the rap group Naughty by Nature's "You Down with OPP." The rap lyrics were changed from "You Down with OPP?" to "You Down with G-O-D?" and Janet Jackson's song was change to "What Have you done for Him Lately?"

One of the concert's organizers, who also performed, said at its conclusion that we shouldn't "demonize" things to which we are not accustomed, such as loud music. Instead, we should embrace the new dance and singing styles, appreciate them, and see "the God" in them because these forms of contemporary worship might just be what keeps our children attending church. Ubadire Ogbuehi, the pastor of Beacon Light SDA Tabernacle, offered the closing prayer and thanked God for His "tremendous" blessings throughout the concert.

When we play worldly rap beats and have young people imitating rappers in church, who are we worshiping? Our holy Creator? When we use Janet Jackson's music and dance to it in church, who is glorified? God? Which God? When the same songs that are played in dance clubs are played on the same platforms where pastors preach the word of God, that isn't worship; it's an abomination masquerading as worship. We are witnessing how worship is being modified to fit our depraved, fallen human natures. Rap and pop music are being incorporated into the gospel ministry as our churches become indistinguishable from the houses of pleasure in this world.

"Never bring the truth down to a low level in order to obtain converts, but seek to bring the sinful and corrupted up to the high standard of the law of God" (Evangelism, p. 137).

Unfortunately, there are countless churches that promote a comfortable, stylish, and modern version of the faith to better suit the entertainment needs of unconverted people. Rap and pop music are reshaping churches and turning them into worldly dance clubs that are devoid of God's Holy Spirit, and it doesn't matter how much they pray for God's presence; God is not in those dance hall displays. This is precisely how the Omega of Apostasy would appear, as we were warned.

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