CHURCH + HOP HOP = UNITY IN CHRIST

Some FOOD FOR THOUGHT

"I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers."

Martin Luther King Jr. - "I Have a Dream" speech

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"I have a dream that one day [in the US] with its vicious racists, with its govern[ment] having...their lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right [here in the USA], little black, [Hispanic, and Asian] boys and... girls [of all ages] will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers."

What in the History of the USA has even come close to doing this? Well, if you read my title you might be able to guess it: Hip Hop.

Selah

Let me ask you this:

Aren't we supposed to be in the World but not of the World?

Aren't we supposed to be like the Apostle Paul and be within the culture and redeem it for Christ and through Christ like he did in Mars Hill?

Isn't Christianity, in its most basic form, a relational lifestyle?

Then why are Christians saying that we must shun Hip Hop when Hip Hop is a culture?

Continuing Thought:


It seems like by shunning Hip Hop we are shunning the example of Paul in redeeming culture for Christ, we are shunning the lesson that the LORD taught Peter learned in Acts 10 in that God can make anything clean, we are shunning what Jesus did as He talked to the Samaritan woman or in crossing the sea of Galilee, and we are shunning away at the possibility of unity through races and generations.

Ahhhh! So many words and so little time!