I want to stress again the connection between contemporary worship bereft of content and the alarming takeover of the Universal Grace heresy that was refuted by the early Church. Sound theology is an innoculation against the infiltration of false doctrine and such theology is present in the traditional hymns but vacant in contemporary music.

I believe Universalism is a dangerous teaching that guts the gospel and diminishes the cross..for invariably Christ's crucifixion is disnecessitated and what we are saved from is trivialized making the "Good News" not so good after all. I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir here.

Fluffy, teady bear, feel good contemporary music evades the very things that hymns face; the old rugged cross, the blood that flowed at Calvary, the threat of eternal destruction, salvation by grace, and biblical images such as cherubim and casting crowns. CCM is sterylized and nonjudgemental, never condemning the sinner or calling him to repentance. CCM's cross is paved with gold and scented with potpouri. Nobody is ever called to sacrifice or radical conversion.

Is it any wonder that, like sheep that have strayed, the Universalist wolves are snatching up uncatechized Christians?

Liberalism -- Ideas so good, they have to be mandated.