Harmonising with God in Our Music and Practices
By Dr Ross V. McKenzie
How to Use This Book
Recommended: Start at Chapter 1 and read all the way through to Chapter 35.
Alternatively, it can be used as a reference book. Apart from the contents list, here are the main topics:
Topic | Chapters |
Aggression in music & in Christianity | 18, 19 |
Antichrist | 12, 19, 32 |
Bias: its influence on our beliefs | 29 |
CCM (Contemporary Christian Music) | 10, 27, 28 |
Church organisation | 8 |
Commercialisation of worship music | 27 |
Congregational worship | 21 |
Dance | 24 |
Doctrinal deficiency in music | 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 |
Drums | 18 |
Ellen White: assessing her prophetic claim | 4, 6, 11 |
Emotion & emotionalism in worship | 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 13 |
Gender roles & identity | 7, 16, 33-34 |
Healing ministry | 15, 23 |
Hell: eternal torment vs annihilationism | 22 |
Immorality/addictions | 33 |
Indiana camp meeting, 1900 | 4, 13 |
Instruments in worship | 13, 14, 17, 18 |
Israelite music & dance | 2, 11, 13, 14, 17, 20, 24, 25 |
Law of God and His character rejected | 31, 32 |
Loud music: symbolism in the Bible | 14, 15, 22, 23 |
Loud worship | 20, 21 |
Low frequency/bass sounds: harms | 18 |
Lyrics | 25, 26, 27, 28 |
Music’s effect on us | 6, 9, 10, 18, 21 |
Ordination of women/women preachers | 7, 16 |
Pentecostal & Charismatic influence | 4, 9, 27, 34 |
Pentecostal & Charismatic roots | 1, 3, 4, 26, 34 |
Perfection/holy living | 3, 5 |
Persecution of Christians | 19, 29 |
Progressive Christianity | 34 |
Religious liberty | 19, 23, 29 |
Sabbath | 12, 28, 29, 32 |
Secular & rock/pop music | 10, 30 |
Separation of Church and state | 19 |
Spiritualism/New Age | 34 |
True worship | 2, 11, 12, 35 |
Vaccinations & modern medicine | 15, 23 |
Worldliness in the church | 1, 3, 10, 17, 33, 34 |
Note: Bold means that topic is the main subject of the chapter.
