We would like open this disscussion up again concerning hip hop in the church. I took some time to read the post's that were put up on this subject and I must tell you that I was shocked at some of the statments. Let me first say that my wife and I are both from the secular industry and we got saved in 93 and have been serving the Lord ever since.

 

We believe that if Jesus walked the earth today as He did almost 2000 years ago that He would probably have a laptop and be connected to the world wide web preaching the Gospel. It has been said that God has always been contemporary with the times and will use whatever is in a paticular era to communicate the Gospel. If we look at the way Christ taught many that he incounterd He used various means to communicate the Gospel. If this were not true we would still be walking around with sandles and robes telling people that they need Jesus and that just won't work in 2010. It is also true that if John the Baptist were to apply for a ministry job today the man of God would probably be shunned not only because of his wild appearence but also because of some of his methods( notice that I didn't say all but some). Not to mention that in every era as far back as you can go the evolution of music has always been met with resistance by the church. If your in a very traditional church today the music that your listening too was called the devils music when it was first introduced. There was a time in the black communitry when drums and guitars were not allowed in the church. Now however people have moved on and God is worshiped and its all Psalm 150. So why do folks today act like Hip Hop can't be redeemed,  This is not to say that we shouldn't be guarded about what we let into our fellowships but don't be like Ciaphas and miss the boat because you don't approve of the method. Or do you not remember the statement from one of Christ's own enemies Gamaliel in Acts 5:39 when he said "But if it is of God you will not be able to overthrow them, or else you may even be found fighting against God".  I've been in 1000's of churches here in this country and abroad and we can tell you first hand that God is moving. That's not say that there's not some bad stuff out there but no more than there are bad preachers out there as well.

 

This is our gift, this is how God has crafted us, this is what we use to be the alternitive to the trash that's out there. We're not saying that you need to love the gener of music that we produce. And we want you to understand that we undterstand that its God's Word that breaks the yoke and not a song or two. It just makes it harder to have to close our ears to what our churches are saying so that we can focus on what we've been called to do.

 

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