Saturday Song: Klaatu; Sell Out! Sell Out!

In 1980, Canadian rock band Klaatu took a different artistic direction. Instead of space rock, they "sold out" and recorded an album of American-sounding tracks. The band's producer hoped it would help the band sell more LPs in the United States.

The group members weren't happy about this, hence this song. In it, they expressed their opinion of the band's change of stile to hopefully "crank up that "funk machine." Sadly for them, it didn't work.

Listen to the song here:

Many Christian churches have done the same thing. They've accommodated the world's people with a watered-down version of the gospel. As a result, topics like hell, repentance, and surrender to Christ are omitted from their services.

This is not a new problem as the first-century church had the same issues. We see this in Jude 1:3 (BBE). "My loved ones, while my thoughts were full of a letter which I was going to send you about our common salvation, it was necessary for me to send you one requesting you with all my heart to go on fighting strongly for the faith which has been given to the saints once and for ever."

Furthermore, Satan had his infiltrators join congregations and twist the scriptures to match their carnal desires. We read this example in 2 Peter 3:15 and 16 (BBE). "And be certain that the long waiting of the Lord is for salvation; even as our brother Paul has said in his letters to you, from the wisdom which was given to him; And as he said in all his letters, which had to do with these things; in which are some hard sayings, so that, like the rest of the holy Writings, they are twisted by those who are uncertain and without knowledge, to the destruction of their souls."

A friend of Paul's also sold out. We read in 2 Timothy 4:10 (BBE), "For Demas has gone away from me, for love of this present life, and has gone to Thessalonica: Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia."

Why do seemingly strong Christians sell out? We read in 1 John 2:19 (BBE) that, "They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us."

On Monday, provided Christ hasn't returned, I hope to post about how even we are saints.