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I believe that there is a difference between taking the gospel to the world, which is what Jesus and his disciples did, and bringing the world into the gospel. People have become much too complacent and irreverent when it comes to God and Church. His word deserves aa certain level of respect or else it gets put on the same shelf with everything else. If you dress the same way to go to church that you do to go to a club or school, then your reverence level is equal. If you praise the Lord the same way that you dance in a club, then there is little moral or ethical difference in how you approach the two. If you sing or rap the same way about the Lord as you would your hoes, bitches, money, bling bling and Courvosier, what possible dichotomy are you creating between the sacred and the secular. What you get is what we have. Teenage, single mothers bringing babies up to be blessed, women dressed (barely) in mini-skirts,backless outfits, and other revealing garb exposing tattoos on backs, shoulders, thighs, and breasts, men and boys in baggy jeans and Timbs. You get a blurring of the word in which everything is more world centered than morally centered. If its ok to bump and grind and listen to misogynistic, profanity laced , Devil (world) worshipping music, and then get your praise on in the same manner.
Yes, worship should be culturally centered, but AAs have worshipped Jesus for 400 yrs in America without losing its soul to what's hip. The message should always be bigger than the messenger or its packaging. My view is that much of this hip-hop, rapping for the Lord, stepping and so, is for entertaining short attention span youth who aren't being taught the proper way to revere the Word of God. We have dummed-down our schools, our morality, and finally the last bastion of sanctity, our churches.
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