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Josh Goetzinger

Been working a lot on our new book The Leaven of CCM (Contemporary Christian Music)!!

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One of the biggest wolves in sheep's clothing is Steven Furtick, pastor of Elevation church. In today's video, we cover what YOU need to know about Steven Furtick and how to help others see the truth about this false teacher!

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Walk into a Bible-believing church 40 or 50 years ago, and the first thing you'd notice was the pulpit. Not a stage. Not concert lights and fog machines. A pulpit, with an open Bible on it, and everything arranged around it. It told you, before anyone said a word, what that church believed mattered most: the word of God.

Now walk into the average church today. What's the center?
The stage. The lights, the screens, the band, the production.
The song set has become the main event, and the sermon has been shortened, softened, and moved to second place… maybe replaced entirely by a motivational talk that quotes one verse.

That did not happen by accident. It happened one song at a time, one Sunday at a time.
In chapter 8 of “The Leaven of CCM”, we examine the megachurch pioneers who redesigned the service around the unchurched, then studied their own congregation and admitted it.
The seats were full, the music was excellent, but the people were spiritually empty.
"We made a mistake," their own leaders confessed.

Because you cannot produce biblical disciples with a model that displaces the Bible.
"It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe" (1 Corinthians 1:21).
Not the foolishness of fog machines. Not arena tours. Preaching.
Paul charged Timothy to "preach the word,” then warned of itching ears that "will not endure sound doctrine" (2 Timothy 4:2–3).
That's not a prediction anymore. That's a news report.

In Nehemiah 8, the people stood attentive to the reading of God's word from morning until midday, and they wept.
No light show. No engineered moment. Just the word.
Because "the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword" (Hebrews 4:12).
It doesn't need to be propped up by an atmosphere.

Music has a rightful place in the church, but it's not the center.
And when the stage replaces the pulpit, the power of God goes with it.

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The tent flipped over this man while sharing the gospel!!
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Josh Goetzinger

Have you ever noticed that today's most popular worship songs can be sung almost anywhere? A charismatic conference. A word of faith megachurch. A Mormon Church. A Roman Catholic mass. A Baptist church. Even the Vatican. Same songs, same lyrics, no changes needed.

That is not an accident. That is the design.
Music with no doctrinal conviction has no doctrinal limits. It doesn't preach doctrine. It produces feeling. And feeling doesn't belong to any denomination.

In chapter 7 of “The Leaven of CCM”, I show you the receipts: songs sung in churches every Sunday that have been performed for the pope himself and used at ecumenical gatherings built on this one philosophy, “What unites us is greater than what divides us."
That sounds noble. There's only one problem: it's not biblical.
"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers... Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord" (2 Corinthians 6:14, 17).
Paul doesn't say pursue unity despite the differences. He says come out. Be separate.

And this is bigger than music. The book of Revelation describes an end-time religious system: "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS" (Revelation 17:5), a one-world religion that seduces the nations and is drunken with the blood of the saints.
God warned us 2,000 years ago that the world's religions would merge into one apostate system.
And what do you need to merge religions that doctrine has divided for centuries?
You need something that bypasses doctrine entirely. You need a feeling everyone can share.

This music is the ecumenical glue. The soundtrack of the coming merger.
It's training a generation to feel worshipful in the same spiritual atmosphere, worshipping any “god.”
It dissolves, by melody, the lines that martyrs defended with blood.

God's command still stands: "Come out of her, my people" (Revelation 18:4).
That is the bridge. And it leads straight to Babylon

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There's an entire generation sitting in churches across America who cannot tell you what the gospel is. They can't explain what it means to be born again or why Jesus had to die.

But they can tell you in vivid detail how a worship song made them feel. The moment. The lights. The tears. The swell of something so powerful they believed it was God.
Here's the problem nobody is telling them: the Bible never tells you to put your faith in that feeling.

"So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Romans 10:17). Not by feeling. Not by a powerful moment. Because "the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked" (Jeremiah 17:9).
A feeling is not faith. A tear is not repentance.

In chapter 6 of “The Leaven of CCM”, I show you how the modern worship experience is engineered.
The driving rhythm that moves the body before the mind can process, the endless repetition that wears down discernment, the darkened room, the atmosphere designed to be "non-threatening."
Every element quiets the part of you that asks, "Is this true?" and amplifies the part that just feels.
That's not worship architecture. That's concert architecture.

And here's the danger: when a real emotional experience is produced by technique rather than truth, people attach it to Jesus. They call it salvation. And that counterfeit inoculates them against the genuine gospel — "I already felt that."

So ask yourself: Is your faith standing on the word of God? That Christ died for your sins, was buried, and rose again or on a night when the music hit you a certain way? Those are not the same thing.
And when the storms come, only one of them holds (Matthew 7:24–25).

If this music requires no doctrine, only a feeling, it can cross any line God's word has drawn.
Chapter 7 shows where that bridge leads: The Bridge to Babylon.

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