Samson's Jawbone: How we Lost Worship to the Worship Wars

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I often wonder whether Christian contemporary music has helped or hindered our worship.Samson's Jawbone: How we Lost Worship to the Worship Wars: I served as Pastor of the Charter Oak Evangelical Free Church in the early 80's in the midst of what some now refer to as "the wo...

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