Why Brian "Head" Welch???!!!
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While I do agree that as Christians, we must filter what we see, participate in, and listen to, I also think it's important for us to use caution when judging others' Christian walk, especially those who are in the public eye, which makes it all too easy.
Several years ago I went to a bar with some co-workers. I can count on one hand the number of times I've been to bars in the past 20 years, but my co-workers kept asking me to go with them. They know I'm not a drinker, and being with them in such a setting gave them an example of a different lifestyle choice, even within a very unChristian setting.
Was it a "Christian place"? Of course not!! There was even a contest to see which woman could perform the most unChristian pretended sexual acts in front of everyone.
Where was I? In another room on the other side of the bar, talking to a guy whose fiancee had died surrounding some very tragic circumstances. His Dad was a pastor, but with everything that had happened the past few years, he had lost faith.
So most everyone else in the bar was drunk and crazy and living it up... and this person and I were sitting in the back of the bar, maybe the only two sober people there, having a long discussion about life, death, and God. At the end of our conversation, he told me, "Now I know why I met you and why we're talking. I know now, without a doubt, that God exists."
I'm certainly not saying, "Go to the bars (or Hellfest) to try to win people for Christ!!!" But do I feel there was a reason I went along that night? Absolutely. And I've talked to people about their faith in very unorthodox settings, such as in prison visiting rooms with a guy who had shot both his parents.
If someone would have snapped my picture that night at the bar, can you imagine the caption? Especially if the photo was hung up at church? "Seoulsearch Goes All-Out Heathen at Local Player's Club!!!!!" (which happened to be the name of the place.)
I'm just thankful that if God saw my picture in that bar, He wouldn't have been so quick to judge.
Several years ago I went to a bar with some co-workers. I can count on one hand the number of times I've been to bars in the past 20 years, but my co-workers kept asking me to go with them. They know I'm not a drinker, and being with them in such a setting gave them an example of a different lifestyle choice, even within a very unChristian setting.
Was it a "Christian place"? Of course not!! There was even a contest to see which woman could perform the most unChristian pretended sexual acts in front of everyone.
Where was I? In another room on the other side of the bar, talking to a guy whose fiancee had died surrounding some very tragic circumstances. His Dad was a pastor, but with everything that had happened the past few years, he had lost faith.
So most everyone else in the bar was drunk and crazy and living it up... and this person and I were sitting in the back of the bar, maybe the only two sober people there, having a long discussion about life, death, and God. At the end of our conversation, he told me, "Now I know why I met you and why we're talking. I know now, without a doubt, that God exists."
I'm certainly not saying, "Go to the bars (or Hellfest) to try to win people for Christ!!!" But do I feel there was a reason I went along that night? Absolutely. And I've talked to people about their faith in very unorthodox settings, such as in prison visiting rooms with a guy who had shot both his parents.
If someone would have snapped my picture that night at the bar, can you imagine the caption? Especially if the photo was hung up at church? "Seoulsearch Goes All-Out Heathen at Local Player's Club!!!!!" (which happened to be the name of the place.)
I'm just thankful that if God saw my picture in that bar, He wouldn't have been so quick to judge.
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I think "Die Religion Die" is a great song. I see it more as a jab against many of the things Jesus spoke against
Luke 11:46
"And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers."
Matthew 15:9
"But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
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For those who haven't heard the song, give it a listen and decide for yourselves
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Luke 11:46
"And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers."
Matthew 15:9
"But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
"
For those who haven't heard the song, give it a listen and decide for yourselves
<span class="p">[video=youtube;jr9InWVItpg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr9InWVItpg[/video]
This speaks for itself........
An immature christian at a place like this, with the people he ordinarily fellowships with, is so dangerous. It's like taking a guy out who can't swim a mile from shore, throw him out & tell him to swim back or else. We know what would happen..... he would drown. Why is it we can see this, & cannot see people drowing in the sin that surrounds them? I've been saved for 33 yrs, in ministry for 31, & I wouldn't last in that atmosphere a week without changing to the influence.
2 Corinthians 6:14-18 (KJV) [SUP]14 [/SUP]Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? [SUP]15 [/SUP]And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? [SUP]16 [/SUP]And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. [SUP]17 [/SUP]Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, [SUP]18 [/SUP]And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
This man fellowships with these people. He does business with them. He performs with them. God didn't throw him into that....... he jumped in by himself. Doing what's right in our own eyes isn't acceptable today any more than it was when Israel was judged for it.
Witnessing to wayward christian artists, perhaps. Witnessing to the Kings In Satan's Service at Hellfest, pleeeze.....
Pastor Stephen, I totally respect you and your knowledge in Christ. 
I just feel uncomfortable judging others so harshly, but that's just me...
We never truly know how the lives of others goes unless we've been there. He may have had an obligation (contract, etc.) to be there. I'm not trying to make excuses for sinful behaviors or choices, I'm just saying, why speak so harshly about someone we don't even know?
But again, it's just me. I respect that we can disagree, I just wanted to bring another perspective to the table. After all, Jesus sat and ate at the houses of tax collectors (which, in His day, WAS the epitome of "HellFest" to the people, ESPECIALLY the religious experts)--He even ASKED to go there. And, He allowed Himself to be annointed--humanly touched!! By a "sinful" woman.
And all the teachers of the law condemned Him heavily for it. (Being called the prince of demons is a pretty heavy slam.)
But we all know what happened... Jesus flatly told them that the tax collectors and prostitutes were entering heaven... and the the religious leaders were the ones on their way to a very warm ending.
I'm certainly not saying everyone at HellFest and other such gatherings are going to heaven... but I wonder how much God wants us to speak against such people.
How about if we pray for them and ask God to bring their hearts to Him and bless them instead? It just seems more Godly than criticism without even knowing them.
P.S. Yes, I do admit that after seeing Brian with the young kids at my church, the ones everyone else has a hard time reaching, I'm a bit biased towards believing in the good in his heart.
I just feel uncomfortable judging others so harshly, but that's just me...
We never truly know how the lives of others goes unless we've been there. He may have had an obligation (contract, etc.) to be there. I'm not trying to make excuses for sinful behaviors or choices, I'm just saying, why speak so harshly about someone we don't even know?
But again, it's just me. I respect that we can disagree
, I just wanted to bring another perspective to the table. After all, Jesus sat and ate at the houses of tax collectors (which, in His day, WAS the epitome of "HellFest" to the people, ESPECIALLY the religious experts)--He even ASKED to go there. And, He allowed Himself to be annointed--humanly touched!! By a "sinful" woman.And all the teachers of the law condemned Him heavily for it. (Being called the prince of demons is a pretty heavy slam.)
But we all know what happened... Jesus flatly told them that the tax collectors and prostitutes were entering heaven... and the the religious leaders were the ones on their way to a very warm ending.
I'm certainly not saying everyone at HellFest and other such gatherings are going to heaven... but I wonder how much God wants us to speak against such people.
How about if we pray for them and ask God to bring their hearts to Him and bless them instead?
It just seems more Godly than criticism without even knowing them.P.S. Yes, I do admit that after seeing Brian with the young kids at my church, the ones everyone else has a hard time reaching, I'm a bit biased towards believing in the good in his heart.
If I "kill all religion" as the message of this song implies directly, wouldn't I be throwing out the baby with the bathwater?
James 1:26-27 (NASB) [SUP]26 [/SUP]If anyone thinks himself to be religious, and yet does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is worthless. [SUP]27 [/SUP]Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
Listen to that song with its negative overtones & you'll eventually kill real religion.
Just a question: Who will kill all other religions when he shows up & offers his own?.............hmmmm.
Well Pastor Stephen, I know you have a beautiful heart, but all I can say is, some of us will leave the judging up to others, and some of us will just pray, all right? I can unabashedly say that I believe the best in Brian Welch and I'll choose to pray for him instead.
And, when the times come in your own life when others can easily judge your actions, locations, and motives, what will you hope others will choose to do?
God bless.
And, when the times come in your own life when others can easily judge your actions, locations, and motives, what will you hope others will choose to do?
God bless.
Pastor Stephen, I totally respect you and your knowledge in Christ.
I just feel uncomfortable judging others so harshly, but that's just me...
We never truly know how the lives of others goes unless we've been there. He may have had an obligation (contract, etc.) to be there. I'm not trying to make excuses for sinful behaviors or choices, I'm just saying, why speak so harshly about someone we don't even know?
But again, it's just me. I respect that we can disagree, I just wanted to bring another perspective to the table. After all, Jesus sat and ate at the houses of tax collectors (which, in His day, WAS the epitome of "HellFest" to the people, ESPECIALLY the religious experts)--He even ASKED to go there. And, He allowed Himself to be annointed--humanly touched!! By a "sinful" woman.
And all the teachers of the law condemned Him heavily for it. (Being called the prince of demons is a pretty heavy slam.)
But we all know what happened... Jesus flatly told them that the tax collectors and prostitutes were entering heaven... and the the religious leaders were the ones on their way to a very warm ending.
I'm certainly not saying everyone at HellFest and other such gatherings are going to heaven... but I wonder how much God wants us to speak against such people.
How about if we pray for them and ask God to bring their hearts to Him and bless them instead? It just seems more Godly than criticism without even knowing them.
P.S. Yes, I do admit that after seeing Brian with the young kids at my church, the ones everyone else has a hard time reaching, I'm a bit biased towards believing in the good in his heart.
I just feel uncomfortable judging others so harshly, but that's just me...
We never truly know how the lives of others goes unless we've been there. He may have had an obligation (contract, etc.) to be there. I'm not trying to make excuses for sinful behaviors or choices, I'm just saying, why speak so harshly about someone we don't even know?
But again, it's just me. I respect that we can disagree
, I just wanted to bring another perspective to the table. After all, Jesus sat and ate at the houses of tax collectors (which, in His day, WAS the epitome of "HellFest" to the people, ESPECIALLY the religious experts)--He even ASKED to go there. And, He allowed Himself to be annointed--humanly touched!! By a "sinful" woman.And all the teachers of the law condemned Him heavily for it. (Being called the prince of demons is a pretty heavy slam.)
But we all know what happened... Jesus flatly told them that the tax collectors and prostitutes were entering heaven... and the the religious leaders were the ones on their way to a very warm ending.
I'm certainly not saying everyone at HellFest and other such gatherings are going to heaven... but I wonder how much God wants us to speak against such people.
How about if we pray for them and ask God to bring their hearts to Him and bless them instead?
It just seems more Godly than criticism without even knowing them.P.S. Yes, I do admit that after seeing Brian with the young kids at my church, the ones everyone else has a hard time reaching, I'm a bit biased towards believing in the good in his heart.
The truth is Brian didn't have to go back to the group. He read his new contract before he signed it.
The truth is in the pic he's enjoying himself. I don't believe that's in his contract.
Speakin of contracts, here's their 2014 schedule:
Korn Tour Dates 2014 — Korn Concert Dates and Tickets | Songkick ......interesting.
Bryan got saved in 2007, right?
Here's part of a review on his book: (the reviewer doesn't reccommend it)
Discerning Reader: Review of Save Me From Myself by Brian Welch
Individual readers will have to decide if they can deal with reading the story of Welch's life before his conversion. It is not easy to read about the drugs, alcohol, abuse and sexuality that pervaded his life and the lives of his band mates. Yet this was his life and he chose not to hide it. Readers should also be warned that the book contains quite a lot of profanity (lots of uses of hell, damn, the f-bomb, etc), some of it in quotations from his past, and some of it simply interspersed in the narrative. He indicates that God is helping him clean up his language but it seems strange that he would commit such profanity to the pages of the book. For those of us who value literary achievement, this book will prove frustrating as it's written by a rocker and one who clearly is not a great writer. Though he had some help in writing the book, it is still not very well written.
His christian band, Love and Death, opens for Korn. This group drops more profanity bombs than Germany did over London in WWII! My question is, is he leading people OUT of sin, or leading lambs into it?
James 3:10-18 (KJV) [SUP]10 [/SUP]Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. [SUP]11 [/SUP]Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? [SUP]12 [/SUP]Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. [SUP]13 [/SUP]Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. [SUP]14 [/SUP]But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. [SUP]15 [/SUP]This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. [SUP]16 [/SUP]For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. [SUP]17 [/SUP]But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. [SUP]18 [/SUP]And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
Matthew 7:15-20 (KJV) [SUP]15 [/SUP]Beware of false prophets (speakers for God), which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. [SUP]16 [/SUP]Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? [SUP]17 [/SUP]Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. [SUP]18 [/SUP]A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. [SUP]19 [/SUP]Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. [SUP]20 [/SUP]Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
He can't have it both ways. It's not judging when his own language & lifestyle tells on himself.
Matthew 7:15-20 (KJV) [SUP]15 [/SUP]Beware of false prophets (speakers for God), which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. [SUP]16 [/SUP]Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? [SUP]17 [/SUP]Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. [SUP]18 [/SUP]A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. [SUP]19 [/SUP]Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. [SUP]20 [/SUP]Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
He can't have it both ways. It's not judging when his own language & lifestyle tells on himself.
I pray that Brian is not backsliding. I WILL not judge him, but I have to say I'm sad if he indeed rejoined that band. He was one of the people featured on our Church's recent "I Am Second" teaching series. May the Lord continue to use him for His glory.
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