Inside Worship’s New Power Structure
A Report On The Growing Exclusivity Of The Church Songwriting Circle
I saw an article from Relevant Magazine, those fine purveyors of Leftist Christianity, recently that essentially reported stats on the top 100 CCLI songs—songs that are sung in churches.
The data Relevant built their Instagram post and article from comes from Worship Leader Research, a group of Canadian worship leaders/data nerds.
I like Marc Joliceur, one of the main dudes that runs the thing. I can’t really stand Elias Dummer, one of the other guys. I toured with both of them in Canada. Marc was personable and kind; Elias was the opposite.
He recently went on a protracted tirade against Sean Feucht doing his worship-protest shtick in Canada, suggesting, “Canadians don’t want this.” The CBC later posted an article questioning the legality of the local government decisions, essentially supporting Sean. 1
The Free Press just today posted an article about how police will facilitate insane, violent, Jew-hating (like, documented antisemitic chants) Palestine Protests, but won’t back Sean’s free speech crusade. 2
I don’t care what you think of Sean, or whether or not he misused finances, or whatever. I’m drawing attention to the fact that non-Christians—people and publications that don’t even identify as Republican or Conservatives (the CBC, my God—and The Free Press) are noting that there is a massive double standard here.
But Elias the Anabaptist, a Left Leaning parasite sect that survives off the nobility of other Christian citizens, and perishes in any society without us, decided to speak on behalf of all Canadians out loud and nonstop recently, saying, “Canadians don’t want Sean Feucht’s brand of Christianity and politics.”
Every church I’ve been in in Canada, every last one, supports Sean’s kind of Christian politics.
Anyways, I’m giving you the backdrop of this organization that Relevant janked this data from.
Now to be fair, Relevant’s post was in some ways more neutral than the post Marc sent over to me. Worship Leader Research (as you saw) had that bitter, sarcastic woman—probably Canadian—complaining about the lack of women in the worship songwriting community—or rather, in the top 100 on CCLI.
Marc graciously asked for my opinion, so I gave him both barrels.
This is my response to the Relevant post (linked below) and what I said to Marc: