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From the CD Booklet

The mutation of Contemporary Christian Music is widening with such force and velocity that its aggressive intimidation for acceptance has pressed itself into the sacred precincts of Fundamental churches. CCM is not just rock music; its elastic, existential nature reflects the multicolored facets of contemporary styles. We are witnessing today in Fundamental churches an enticement toward the perimeter of these contemporary facets. This attraction is evidenced by the surrealistic, ethereal, easy-listening sound of piano and orchestral accompaniments as well as by the soft, meandering melodies rewritten for our stately traditional hymns.

Martin Luther strongly believed that a composer needs to be a theologian in order to write the music of the church. This belief is not held by many today. Eclecticism dominates the theory classes of many institutions, while informality characterizes the look and sound of most performing groups. Often what is being offered today as Fundamentalist music is simply Neo-Evangelical music.

The Men of Foundations quartet is a true separatist, Fundamentalist quartet. In a day when young men are trained to sing in a mellow sound that depicts weakness in character and song, the strength of the Men of Foundations is readily identified through both the sound and the message of each of their hymns. Whereas the Liberals took the blood out of the old hymns, Fundamentalism is in danger of taking militancy out of our hymns. The book of Psalms, the divinely-inspired hymnbook of the Bible, gives not only praise to God but also a militant call for the battle. May God help us to preserve this paradoxical legacy.

It is our earnest desire that this ministry of sacred song will Forward the Faith toward another Fundamentalist generation. May God the Holy Spirit anoint this offering not only to edify the body of Christ but also to encourage the needed warfare against compromise and the falling away.

Dr. H. T. Spence
President

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