The “Christian” Worship Song “Straight Outta Hell”
Right here in my own backyard???
Straight Outta Compton was a popular 2015 movie about a rapper and his music influenced by his surroundings in 1980s Compton, California.
Likewise, at Open Worship, a so-called United Methodist “church” in Denton, Texas (just 60 miles from here) the worship band seems to be influenced, in the case of this hymn, by something straight out of the depths of hell. They have re-written and performed the popular hymn All Creatures of Our God and King with these blasphemous, pagan-inspired lyrics:
“All Creatures of our God and King
Lift up your voice and with us sing
Oh we praise you, alleluia
Oh brother sun with golden beam
Oh sister moon with softer gleam
oh we praise you, oh we praise you
alleluia, alleluia, alleluia
Dear mother earth, who day by day
unfoldest blessings on our way
Oh we praise you, alleluia
The flowers and fruits that in you grow
Let them God’s glory also show
Oh we praise you, Oh we praise you
alleluia, alleluia, alleluia”
Really? Sun, moon, and mother earth? And the and the "she/her" pronouns for God later in the video? This is nothing less than the dictionary definition of absolute cultural and pagan idolatry.
Not to be outdone, Open Worship’s “pastor” went on later in the same video defending abortion after the overturn of Roe v. Wade, saying (this was taken word for word from the transcript):
“If you are anything like me, you might have come in here today feeling a little like activated like charged, I don't know, like kind of on edge um... it's been an interesting weekend, um, and it's been a difficult weekend for a lot of us, and I was told in all the complexity of all of this that there was not a way to find a life-affirming autonomy respecting reproductive rights and protect that way forward and still be a Christian I was told by an uncle you can't be a Christian and this this this we've always been able to we always have been able to do this together if we let love lead us to affirm the wonder of life and its preciousness and to affirm the wonder of life sometimes leads us to make choices for the sake of the mother and the future and ourselves we've always been able to do that.” (sic)
Are you in a church that allows or promotes this sort of garbage? If so, and you bring it to their attention in love (Matthew 18) and are rebuffed, it is past time to leave that church and find a more biblically sound one.
If you have the stomach for it, you can watch the video below.
It is really sad how much the adversary has infiltrated assemblies.
The Leftist progressive worldview continues to influence and infiltrate young minds because they genuinely don’t know any better. I think we need small, local grassroots campaigns that aim to revitalize Christian teachings straight from the Bible and a good dose of common sense about sex, as opposed to ‘gender.’