Secular Music at North Point

This has become the latest trend in organized religion: Secular Worship.

The second largest religious business in the U.S., Northpoint Community Church (herein called “North Pointless”) has taken on the role of playing secular rock-n-roll among the nearly 38,000 of its weekly attendees. The secular music, the entertainment, is acceptable to the itching ears of Andy Stanley's following. It's become increasingly obvious; the music selection in the religious businesses today is aimed at the works of darkness rather than the glory and light of Jesus Christ.

North Pointless entertains with the worldly music of Aerosmith

But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. ~ John 4:23-24 (NKJV)

The question: Is this true worship? The people who attend confess that it is true worship. When Jesus stated that “Many will be deceived,” the prophecy has become true. In all appearance, the Andy Stanley troopers are so deceived that they cannot see how they are involved in the practice of iniquity or lawlessness. What we have here is simply the blind leading the blind.

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. ~ Philippians 4:8

How is it that these 38,000 in weekly attendance could see the truth, can see the noble, the just, the pure and whatever is lovely, of good report and anything of virtue or praiseworthy? Perhaps this comes from the heart of the matter – they are still worldly.

There are two videos on the internet that outright display the worldliness of their music. You might say it's a thriller to dream on.

Michael Jackson's "Thriller" performed at North Pointless

North Pointless community church has put their musical efforts in performing songs from the likes of Elton John (homosexual), The Beatles, Beyonce, Destiny's Child, Maroon 5, Whitney Houston, and several others. What do all these entertainers have in common? They are all singers of worldliness. The music they produce has NOTHING to do with Jesus Christ. They are lovers of the world and the things in the world, weather it be homosexual, lovers of money, self-centered lovers of themselves, idolaters, and/or anything that is represented in the darkness of this world.

However, North Pointless and Andy Stanley seems to see fit to entertain their followers with the message to practice lawlessness.

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. ~ 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (NKJV)

Perhaps, they feel the need to go outside the Scriptures to preach and sing the message of love, the attendance of the youth and the so-called “unchurched” by the means of something that soothes the itching ears.

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. ~ 2 Timothy 4:3-4

The message and music of worship is to be Christ-centered for the purpose of building up the disciples of Christ. It is not to hinder the Gospel of Christ. It is not to be a mixture of humanism and worldly advice. The real Church (Ekklesia) is centered strictly on that which edifies the saints in both music and preaching. It is not to conform to the world and make the so-called “unchurched” entertained through the things of this world.

In some respects this can be seen as using the honey of this world to draw in the cubs. The only way to keep them in attendance is to provide the same honey and more of it.

Without the “unchurched” where will they find the wallets to pay for Andy Stanley's $1.1 million mansion? I would say he has a very successful religious business by the standards of this world. But by the standards Jesus has portrayed, He would have something else to say about it.

Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’ ~ Matthew 7:21-23

Most people at North Pointless will be saying things such as, “Lord, Lord have we not sang songs to bring glory to Your name, and in Your name brought in many of the 'unchurched,' and in Your name done many marvelous works.”

Personally, I would not feel comfortable in placing any bets on them being allowed to enter into His Kingdom. I think most of their mindset is based on the passions of this world which they never released and their ignorance of the Scriptures. Perhaps they might understand the worldly and uncaring remarks of Jerry Seinfeld, “That's a shame.”