Seth Morrison

Thanks for this article @danjohnsonhymns. Eloquently said 🙏

Great interview from @BillyHallowell and @johnlcooper youtu.be/TFwloEaPBdE?si…

@TNTJohn1717 This is just amazing and hysterical… A lot said here without saying anything other than extrabiblical jargon. Thank you @alisa_childers

🚨‼️Sister, with all due respect, when you say the “intensity is appropriate,” I have to wonder if we are reading the same Bible. The problem is not whether the song begins soft and then “goes hard.” The problem is that the atmosphere Skillet chose is the atmosphere God told His people to avoid. You cannot slap the name of Christ on a sound that imitates the world’s darkness and call it worship. God never used the ambiance of the pit to glorify Emmanuel. He used preaching, holiness, and the fear of the Lord. What you are calling “longing” is what the prophets called “groaning for deliverance,” and they did not express that by borrowing the world’s emotional vocabulary. When Isaiah lamented, he did not summon the soundtrack of a horror film to do it. When Jeremiah wept, he did not grab a distortion pedal. When Paul spoke of the whole creation groaning, he never suggested that distortion equals depth. Tension does not sanctify worldliness. Emotion does not replace discernment. Feeling does not override Scripture. Your defense proves the crisis in modern Christianity. We have believers who cannot tell the difference between spiritual yearning and theatrical drama. The flesh responds to volume, lighting, spectacle, and adrenaline. The Spirit responds to truth. The fact that atheists and metal fans praised this rendition says everything. If the natural man can receive it, then it is not spiritual. The world never enjoys the things of God. It enjoys the things of the flesh wrapped in religious language. I do not question your sincerity. But sincerity has never sanctified compromise. The Bible says “Abstain from all appearance of evil.” The moment a Christian performance starts looking like the world’s stage, sounding like the world’s storm, and attracting the world’s applause, a Bible believer already knows the verdict. Holy things do not need unholy packaging. Emmanuel does not need a soundtrack that imitates the darkness He came to conquer.

1.) To your claim of “merging worldliness with Christianity” I’m very curious how you exegete Mark 16:15 then… “Go into all the world and proclaim the Gospel to the whole creation”— Do you think this means go into the world and proclaim the Gospel to only Christians because, well… in your words, it’s “stupid and sinful” otherwise. 2.) You still have not come forward on my previous claims (the video where you openly slandered us and deleted, and deleting the prior thread I initially called you out on X). At this point, you’re not being forthright and truthful, but cowardice. The video was not behind your members paywall until I called you out in the comments section. That’s a fact. Otherwise, explain to me how I would’ve seen it and commented? 3.) We don’t have to agree on musical style. This isn’t about tastes in art portrayal. I get that. 4.) If you want to speak on James 4:4, let’s dig in. My exegesis here would be that James is challenging people who have turned their hearts from God and fallen in love with the world. (Do you personally know our hearts to know that’s the case? Have you ever been around us to rightly judge the fruit you see? No, you haven’t.) I also think a clear indicator in how we “have made friends with the world” is behavior. Quarreling? Fighting? (James 4 1:2) Bitterness and selfish ambition? This seems to be your entire platform (You’ve now twice brought up selling a book after publicly slandering us, and your last tweet mentioned “I even put you in a documentary” which I’ll go out on a limb and say also is slandering us.) “But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.” (James 3:14) To your bottom line point. Again, I’m not pleading that we agree on music. I grew up in a culture of this legalism with music and the like, and I get it. You don’t like the style. Fair. I could be at peace and mercy with you if this is where this stopped. But it hasn’t. Your claims are erroneous in calling people “stupid, sinful and fleshy” and this is a long thread in how you go about what you do. You’re practicing cowardice by refusing to acknowledge what I’ve called out, or just deleting it altogether. Lastly, you’re not in good faith speaking on the inspiration of scripture alone and exegeting properly, as you did with James 4:4 above. You believe in the inspiration of your interpretation of scripture, and that’s clear.

I have said that merging worldliness with Christianity is stupid and sinful for years and years. I even put you guys in a documentary. I make no apologies for that. I explained myself with the members video. I think for any Christian to claim that Ozzys music was a “common grace” is wild, and unbiblical. Bottom line: I don’t agree with you guys on music. Never will. I appreciate the things that are biblical that are said, but when I see you guys on a flyer with wicked rock bands, I think of James 4:4 “Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.”

Go watch Third Adam.

@SolaScriptura98 Um… yes and amen to all of that! However, I think you missed my sarcasm and what I’m referring to 👍

I’d encourage you to read her the Bible to explain why we need this God he singed about. We need him because we are sinners headed straight to hell. We must repent and turn our hearts from …ahem, the things of this wicked world. Any kid can repeat a catchy line from a song - even if it has a harmless reference to some unspecified god who we know nothing about, being with us. Doctrine matters.

My 3 year old just asked to listen to “Daddy, John, Korey and Jen O Come, O Come Emmanuel” and shouting “OUR GOD IS WITH US” with everything she has. We don’t usually listen to blasphemous versions of this song, but just this once…

@basedcrusades 😏

@MorrisonSeth Silent Night next?

@SummrWrites 💯 truth has been spoken here

I’ve hung out with Korey Cooper and she’s cooler, kinder, and more modest than yall but you aren’t ready for that conversation 🥰

When I was in college, I went to see Skillet perform with Papa Roach on the “Monsters of Annihilation” tour. To this day, one of the most chaotic concerts I’ve ever been to. John Cooper got up on stage in a room full of vaguely high/drunk metalheads. Declared that all their music had a point, that life was worth living, and told that audience that their only hope lay in the name of Jesus. I’ve never seen anything like it before or since.

I’m very proud of how unashamed of the gospel our front man @johnlcooper is. He’s been bold for the faith for decades, and he’s impacted my own life greatly! We have a great band of believers- and I’m humbled to be on such an incredible team ❤️@koreycooper @MorrisonSeth

1.) This is or has never been about you liking our music, or our style of music. There are multitudes of styles, genres or songs that just don’t resonate with me even in Christian music. That’s ok. Am I online taking any and every hit at them I can, claiming it’s “satanic, stupid and sinful?” No. That would be foolish. 2.) For the THIRD TIME… You’re refusing to acknowledge the entirety of the point John was making in a 5 minute speech. You cut out 30 seconds of it and ran with it… I encourage people to read the article I linked above ⬆️ 3.) In terms of musical styles (and back it with a book, chapter, and verse) what style of music is is exclusive to and suitable in your eyes and pleasing to the Lord? 4.) You’re not truthful on the topic of the video. If this video is and was always only for your audience, please tell me how on earth I would’ve seen it, Spencer?… It was after I discovered it, and publicly called you out, that you deleted it from the public, and hid behind your paywall. You’ve refused to acknowledge or explain this. 5.) You also haven’t acknowledged deleting the other thread of tweets in the photos above that I’ve publicly refuted, which led me to respond here. We do not have to agree on musical styles. I can absolutely understand someone not liking rock, or metal, and that not being their thing. No offense whatsoever. But when you’re publicly claiming people you don’t know are “stupid and sinful” that you don’t know, you need to repent. 6.) I’ve left a handful of photos here for those to see of why we do what we do. Hopefully you can understand God works outside of our personal preferences in art.

I don't agree with what you do with music. I don't think saying "Ozzy gave a lot of people a lot of hope" is wise or doctrinally sound thing for a Christian to say. I don't agree that metal music is a "common grace" given to us from the Lord. We are eons apart on this topic. I will acknowledge the good that has been said by you guys, but we don't agree on this. I have tons of videos on my channel for members only. This was one of them. I don't agree with you guys on music. I appreciate the other stuff, but not this.

Controversy!! To all our supporters, thank you! So many of my friends have had our backs. I love and appreciate you. To my critics, I love you too. Thanks to @ChurchLead @JesseTJackson for reaching out to me for a quote. Excellent article churchleaders.com/news/2208890-s…

@conservmillen Thank you @conservmillen 🙏

Love the good news of Christmas proclaimed across all genres! For the people complaining about this, I’ll let you in on a secret: you don’t have to listen to it! You can still listen to your hymns! I promise your worship leader won’t be leading you in this rendition at Christmas Eve service. Everything will be ok! Personally I think it’s really cool. Great work @johnlcooper!

@alisa_childers 🙏 thank you friend!

So, I didn’t have defending Skillet to Christian X on my bingo card for today. But here we are. I would recommend that before you criticize this rendition, listen to the whole song. It begins reverently and melodically beautiful. This honors the original beauty of the song that expresses a tension and longing for the coming Messiah. Then, Skillet goes hard. This represents a longing that still exists and is intensified …now for the return of Christ in a world that has lost its ever loving mind. It’s the same tension. The same longing. The intensity is appropriate. In fact, it’s fantastic. (And as a singer, I appreciate the otherworldly vocals of Jen Ledger that take it over the top.)

@megbasham @johnlcooper 🙏

You know why this rocks? Because unlike so many of the deconstructed contemporary Christian music artists who merely wear the faith of their fathers as a skin suit while they profane the name of Christ through their praise of evil acts and ideologies, I know @johnlcooper and Korey Cooper mean every word they’re singing here.

@BroSpencer And in case you need clarification, this was public repentance 3 times. Once on @HwsEleutheroi, once on @alisa_childers, once on his own channel Cooper Stuff. Clearly, you don’t diligently inform yourself before making ignorant claims.

@BroSpencer Indeed. John talked about this years ago on his podcast. Which I’m assuming you’ve never listened to an episode in entirety. Instead, you think stewardship of what platform you have, is to tear down those you do not know who have been faithful.

@newreleasetoday @skilletmusic 😂🔥💯

Calling @skilletmusic satanic in 2025 cause they did a rock version of a Christmas classic is like telling everyone you’ve had your head buried for 20 years. Skillet has been preaching Jesus louder than half the Church. Touch some grass, listen to a lyric, and try again.