Friday Church News Notes, January 16, 2026,

 Nothing in my lifetime has done more to produce the apostasy of 2 Timothy 4:3-4 than Contemporary Christian Music, and Amy Grant is one of the most influential figures in the field.

 In the 1980s, she was one of the first CCM artists to achieve crossover pop success in the secular field by producing “Christian” music without the Christianity. “The Queen of Christian Pop” has achieved wealth and fame, having sold more than 30 million records and won dozens of Grammy and Dove awards. 

In 2003, she was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame, and in 2005 she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In a new song for 2026, she expressed longing for the 1960s rock & roll culture with its anti-God moral relativism. The song “6th of January (Yasgur’s Farm)” refers to the pro-Trump U.S. Capitol demonstration in January 2021 and to the farm on which the Woodstock music festival took place in August 1969. She expresses nostalgia for the spirit of the 1960s, claiming that we have “lost our way.”

 She mentions Marvin Gaye, Martin Luther King Jr., John Lennon’s “Imagine,” and Woodstock, with zero warning about the vile sensuality and vulgarity of Gaye’s lifestyle and music or King’s theological liberalism, communist sympathies, and serial adultery or Lennon’s anti-law atheism or Woodstock’s shameful live-as-you-please immorality. 

Lennon’s “Imagine” has become an anthem for globalism, atheism, and communism. It is the latter-day theme song of the Mystery of Iniquity. Grant’s non-critical reference to it is clear evidence of a fearful spiritual condition. Crooning to hypnotic music, Lennon said, “Imagine there’s no heaven / It’s easy if you try / No hell below us / Above us only sky.” Imagining won’t turn this lie into reality, even if the whole world imagines together. 

This is nothing new for Amy Grant. She was a ground breaker in dissolving the wall of separation between the flesh and Spirit, the world and Christ, in Christian music. In 1985 she said, “I’m trying to look sexy to sell a record” (Rolling Stone, June 6, 1985, p. 10). She has also been at the forefront of dissolving doctrinal walls of separation with her radical “one-world church” ecumenism and close relationship with Rome.

 In 1999, Grant divorced her husband of 16 years, Gary Chapman, and in 2000 married country singer Vince Gill. Chapman testified that Amy came to him in late 1994 and said, “I don’t love you anymore. … I’ve given my heart to another man” (CCM Magazine, January 2000, p. 36).

 Grant has justified foul language, marijuana, and secular rock, and practices empty-minded yoga (Tulsa World, November 20, 2011). In an interview with Apple Music’s LGBT-themed Proud Radio in 2021, she said, “None of us are a surprise to God. … I was invited to a table where someone said ‘don’t be afraid, you’re loved.’ … Gay … Straight. It does not matter. It doesn’t matter how we behave. It doesn’t matter how we’re wired” (“CCM Icon Amy Grant,” Relevant Magazine, July 12, 2021). 

Amy’s philosophy is a dangerous error that ignores repentance and the new birth. God does love every sinner, but He doesn’t accept sinners on their own terms. The Bible plainly says that homosexuality is a sin against the God who made man “male and female.” Jesus Christ said, “I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3). The apostle Paul said, “God now commandeth all men everywhere to repent” (Acts 17:30). 

The members of the early churches came from every type of sinful background, including homosexuality, but they had repented of their sins and been converted by God’s Spirit. Paul was very clear on this matter. See 1 Corinthians 6:9-11.

 (For more about Marvin Gaye and John Lennon and Amy Grant see The Directory of Contemporary Worship Music (650 pages) and Rock and Roll’s War Against God (425 pages) available as free eBooks at the Books section of www.wayoflife.org.)

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