The Satanic Attack on Sacred Music

"I thank the Lord for brave men who were willing to preach an unpopular message, but these men are dead or retired, and the situation is getting worse every decade. Surely you know this is true. It is not time to sound a mushy message that music is largely a matter of taste and those who “love the Lord” shouldn’t be critiqued. It is time, rather, to teach much on this issue and to educate the churches well and continually, starting with the preachers, and to show the churches how to draw wise, biblical lines between sacred and contemporary music before it is too late.

If ever there was a time when the trumpet needs to sound clearly, it is today. In my experience, a great many fundamental Baptist preachers are experts in sounding strong for the truth while not saying much of substance, because they refuse to speak PLAINLY on the great issues of the day and they refuse to name the names of errorists and compromisers in our own midst as Paul did. There can be no doubt that there are fundamental Baptist “good old boy’s networks” and to be in good stead, one has to act right and speak right.

Though I have been a fundamental Baptist for 49 years, educated at Tennessee Temple in its heyday, I am on the very periphery these days. In my observation, most are tradition-bound, not Scripture-found, man-centered, not Christ centered; largely powerless (look at the homes, the youth, the lack of life-changing conversions, the emphasis on playing rather than prayer); they are getting weaker rather than stronger; they are trending toward lukewarmness and worldliness." —David Cloud, The Idolatry of Music

https://www.wayoflife.org/reports/the_idolatry_of_music.php

https://www.wayoflife.org/publications/books/satanic_attack_on_sacred_music.php