Fifty years later, “The Everlastin’ Living Jesus Music Concert” is considered the Big Bang of contemporary Christian music - a collection of folk-inspired soft rock that, as it eased its way onto youth-group turntables across the country, cast a spell over Jesus-loving, mostly white baby boomers amid a generational shift. Released on Chuck Smith’s new Maranatha! Music label and costing about $4,000 to produce, the album went on to sell more than 200,000 copies. There, during the same period Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Frank Zappa and the Byrds were becoming famous, a half-dozen Calvary Chapel bands united in 1971 to create “The Everlastin’ Living Jesus Music Concert.” It's from Hillsong, which I have more of a problem with than Bethel.īut their stuff has become more gospel centered in recent years, not less.Though “The Jesus Music” moves far beyond Costa Mesa to tackle issues of race, morality, sin and redemption, its opening canto beams light on a long-gone music community 50 miles south of Laurel Canyon. Note that your participation in this community is not dependent on affirming these or other creeds. Together with the majority of NAPARC denominations, we affirm justification by faith alone and agree with these reports which show Federal Vision to be in error against scripture.The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy.The Danvers Statement on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood.Confessional (WCF, LBCF, Heidelberg, Belgic, Canons of Dordt, 39 Articles)Īffirmations - This subreddit community (in general) agrees with these additional statements:.This is the one gospel this is Christianity. God’s grace offers eternal life in his presence to all who receive this work of Jesus Christ by confessing Him as Lord. His resurrection declares the Father’s acceptance of his sacrifice and our hope of resurrection as well. Jesus’ death satisfied God’s justice for all those who turn in faith from idolatrous rebellion to worship Him alone.īeing freely and completely justified by grace through faith alone, by the righteousness of Christ, alien to our own, His people, being wholly part of the invisible Bride which He bought by His own blood, are completely and fully united to Him by His death, and will never fall away by the power of the Spirit who is the seal and guarantee of our future complete redemption. Jesus Christ, lived the life of obedience that the Father demanded of us but that we could not live, and He died the death that the Father required of us as sinners, though He Himself was without sin. Jesus was born of a virgin, taking on human flesh in order to share our nature. The Father sent His Son Jesus, who went willingly, who Himself shared God’s very nature, into our world. The gospel is the good news that, though we have all rebelled against the God who created us, God planned a way to show mercy when we deserved judgment.
They summarize what we must believe in order to be a Christian. We understand certain doctrinal truths, which God uses as the instrument of our faith in Christ upon hearing the Word, to be essential for conversion, reconciliation to God, and deliverance from God’s justice.
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