After, 1,000 years in the west and the churches
gettin bigger daily without understand'n worship.
Some regenerate but a lot ain't saved.You walk outside
and be surprised cuz the block ain't changed
Lately I have been listening to Christian rap. Kinda funny, because i'm as white as someone can get. But really, some of these guys have some serious stuff to say, and for the most part their lyrics trump a lot of the things you find in most worship songs. The excert above is from Lecrae's song "Send me". He makes an amazing point that has been bothering me for a long time. We, in America, think that our church is supreme and that American Christianity is the pinnacle of faith and giving and no other can represent what the Body of Christ should look like other than us. False. I don't know what the church really should look like ideally, but it isn't what we see every Sunday. We are so selfish and pompous as a culture, and we carry that with us into church every day. We don't understand true worship, because not too many of us know what it is like to really need God. Our materialism takes care of that. We want change, but we don't take the proper actions to attain it. If we truly wanted to worship God and show Him our love, we need to be serious about it and not expect it to happen because we go to church or a Christian university. Jesus' sacrifice was much too serious for us to take our faith and life lightly. If you are claiming to be a Christian, and don't act like Jesus taught you to act, you could be misleading hundreds of people to think that being a Christian is something completely different from what it really is. Jesus loves all of us. That doesn't mean he agrees with everything we do. Pluralistic thoughts that teach that grace means we can go do whatever we want are wrong. Grace isn't for when we jump into sin consciously. Grace is for when we fall and can't help ourselves recover. This has been my most scatter brained post because I don't know how to convey to people that most of the things that American Christians say is completely wrong. I hope that no one thinks i am being intolerant or any f those politically correct bad words. If i am, so be it. A true gospel presentation is the most loving, offensive thing someone can say. If we want to change the world, we can't do it on our own. We can't even do it together. It's only when you ut everything down, and let Jesus come in and change everything can you really get true change. Jesus didn't come so we could help ourselves, He came so we would stop trying to.
1 John 2:3- This is how we know that we know Him, that we follow His commandments
Whitewashed Tombs and Praying for the Hateful
15 years ago
2 comments:
Christian rap does have some heavy things to say. I recently got into it some, and was kinda surprised b/c I'm not a big rap fan by any means. Lecrae's music is amazing I think. He hits pretty hard. You should also check out this guy, Tre The Third. You can listen to some of his stuff on his MySpace (www.myspace.com/trethethird). But anyway, take care.
God Bless!
Lecrae is probably one of the few Christian rap artists that I do like to listen to. You make an awesome point Jenkins. The Body of Christ is made up of so much more than our American Christianity. I think if we just stopped and looked around at Christians in other cultures we might see a much better representation of real Christianity. Our lives are so easy; we can't even imagine living somewhere where Christians are actually persecuted for their faith. We think that we're worth so much more than those out risking their very LIVES for the gospel of Jesus Christ.
I'd say that we definitely bring our ideas of success to church with us. We look down on those who are poor or divorced or stressed out when God looks at them as no different then you and me.
See ya around man.
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