ooguyx
Puritan Board Freshman
Since this is obviously a sensitive issue for so many, and resulted in quite a few comments, I’d like to respond en masse, so to speak. It seems that the majority of you insist the concert/video in question was ‘entertainment’, and not worship.
Honest question. When one sings about Jesus Christ, regardless of ’style’, regardless of location, is that worship or entertainment? If a professing Christian can sing about Christ, and call it ‘entertainment’ and not worship, something is terribly wrong. Someone said to me recently that “adding Jesus-speak’ to music does not sanctify it.”
I believe that’s true.
From the beginning of Scripture and the creation account, the idea of separation is introduced and taught throughout Scripture, from Genesis to Revelation.
So to all you Christian hip-hop fans, can you honestly say – before God – that you can ’sing’ about the Lord of Glory and not call it worship? It seems to me that if you can sing/rap/recite anything about Jesus Christ, and insist it is only ‘entertainment’ then what does that say about your true view of God and of yourself?
In all sincerity, Jesus Christ did not die on the cross for your entertainment, and if we have a proper view of the value of a soul and what it cost Him to redeem, we should think long and hard about how we present Him to the world.
Also, before I forget, you do not have the right to determine how God is worshiped, you never did. There are too many examples in Scripture that prove that.
Me thinks that this is a strawman argument. By his own admission hip-hopper's don't believe that they are worshipping God with their music. I just don't buy this argument that because someone sings of God or the Christian life, they automatically fall into the category of worship and then must adhere to the RPW. By this same argument if I serve wine and bread at a social gathering then I would have to remind those in attendance that only Christians can eat the bread and drink the wine, etc.