Christian Rap Music

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Anth07

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Hello all,

I would like to everyones opinion on Christian Rap Music, I noticed a lot of debate against it but I honestly don't see anything wrong with it. Would you rather hear someone rapping about drugs, sex, violence, and that other non-sense, or someone rapping about how much God loves them and has a plan for their life. Some youth that I know won't listen to gospel, or worship music, (I know christian rap is not worship music) but they will listen to all these rap artist I never heard of. I recently went to a Christian Rap concert and there were young people giving their life to Christ after hearing testimonies express through Christian Rap lyrics, some people say it is not biblical but I have not seen a verse that says it is wrong. Maybe I could be wrong but I believe if you do it to glorify God you get results. Any thoughts or comments?
 
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Ugly

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Some people think that the act of arranging music in a certain fashion magically makes it evil. Same notes as other 'good' music. But play it a certain way and its bad. These people are usually so set in their determination that they are right and every other belief is wrong its often a waste of time to acknowledge them. They tend to be bullies and scripture twisters in an effort to prove their strong spiritual stance on the subject. Don't bother pointing out in scripture where it teaches that there are some things that are wrong to on man and not wrong to another. You bring that up and all of a sudden they don't want to acknowledge scripture anymore. At least not the ones that disprove their argument and can't be twisted or isolated to suit their personal opinion.
 
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I say as long as the music glorify's God and preaches godly living, I am all for it. Personally, I listen to a lot of Christian that rap and find it very uplifting.
 
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Ecclesiastik

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Well I'm African-American and I've had a lot of experience with rap in my former life of sin.

Rap can be like poetry. In this instance it would be just as false to say that Christian rap cannot glorify God as it would be to say that the Psalms do not.

However, I would go as far as to say that most Christian rappers do not glorify God. Most are about glorifying themselves, making good music, and/or becoming famous. It is a very distinct thing and fairly easy to discern when a person's motive is only Jesus Christ.

But most folk aren't interested in hearing the Gospel, no matter what form of music it is. That's when people start compromising in their music and making secular-like songs to get people to listen to their Christian ones. It is a method that is unbiblical and Satanic in origin. The devil will do and say anything to get your focus off of God.
 
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misstee

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I say... as long as Jesus' works are aknowledged, & His name is in throughout the song it's fine!
 
wisebeardman

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im not a music person honestly. I am not a fan of rap period. but thats just me.
 
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Tintin

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Ecclesiastik said:
Well I'm African-American and I've had a lot of experience with rap in my former life of sin.

Rap can be like poetry. In this instance it would be just as false to say that Christian rap cannot glorify God as it would be to say that the Psalms do not.

However, I would go as far as to say that most Christian rappers do not glorify God. Most are about glorifying themselves, making good music, and/or becoming famous. It is a very distinct thing and fairly easy to discern when a person's motive is only Jesus Christ.

But most folk aren't interested in hearing the Gospel, no matter what form of music it is. That's when people start compromising in their music and making secular-like songs to get people to listen to their Christian ones. It is a method that is unbiblical and Satanic in origin. The devil will do and say anything to get your focus off of God.
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I truly don't think you've heard much Christian rap, if you say this is true.
 
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Tintin

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Anth07 said:
Hello all,

I would like to everyones opinion on Christian Rap Music, I noticed a lot of debate against it but I honestly don't see anything wrong with it. Would you rather hear someone rapping about drugs, sex, violence, and that other non-sense, or someone rapping about how much God loves them and has a plan for their life. Some youth that I know won't listen to gospel, or worship music, (I know christian rap is not worship music) but they will listen to all these rap artist I never heard of. I recently went to a Christian Rap concert and there were young people giving their life to Christ after hearing testimonies express through Christian Rap lyrics, some people say it is not biblical but I have not seen a verse that says it is wrong. Maybe I could be wrong but I believe if you do it to glorify God you get results. Any thoughts or comments?
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Who says that? Christian rap can totally be used as worship music. Just most congregations seem to go more for the Hilllsong/Planetshakers genre of music.
 
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Ecclesiastik

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I truly don't think you've heard much Christian rap, if you say this is true.
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Or maybe your theology is a lot more liberal than mine.

Christian rap isn't the best breeding ground for devoutness. A lot of people who come into it already have had a background in secular rap and just don't want to give up everything for Christ yet so they settle for Christian rap as a happy medium. It shouldn't be like that. It should be about giving it all to Christ.

The same is true of a lot of Christian pop music. That's why there are so many cross-over's in the business. Even Katy Perry was once a Christian singer but was never a Christian in the first place!

You can't expect the music industry to be thriving with godliness. You can hardly expect any institution to be thriving with godliness, not to mention show-business. It's a narrow road, mate. Hence my signature.
 
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Tintin

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Ecclesiastik said:
Or maybe your theology is a lot more liberal than mine.

Christian rap isn't the best breeding ground for devoutness. A lot of people who come into it already have had a background in secular rap and just don't want to give up everything for Christ yet so they settle for Christian rap as a happy medium. It shouldn't be like that. It should be about giving it all to Christ.

The same is true of a lot of Christian pop music. That's why there are so many cross-over's in the business. Even Katy Perry was once a Christian singer but was never a Christian in the first place!

You can't expect the music industry to be thriving with godliness. You can hardly expect any institution to be thriving with godliness, not to mention show-business. It's a narrow road, mate. Hence my signature.
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I know it's a narrow road but you're putting yourself out their as judge. That's not godly. Conviction, not condemnation, that's the way.
 
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Ecclesiastik

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Tintin said:
I know it's a narrow road but you're putting yourself out their as judge. That's not godly. Conviction, not condemnation, that's the way.
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As I have said a million times to a million different people: The Bible does not advocate walking around with a spiritual blind fold, post-modernism does.

There is a large difference between discerning and judging. You were mad because I made an observation, not because I swung a gavel.
 
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valtafjoe

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Ecclesiastik said:
As I have said a million times to a million different people: The Bible does not advocate walking around with a spiritual blind fold, post-modernism does.

There is a large difference between discerning and judging. You were mad because I made an observation, not because I swung a gavel.
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I agree with you Ecclesiastik on this one. Having grown up in Africa and exposed to mostly secular rap music I have also come to this realisation that most but not all christian rap artists make music just to get famous. Have you ever watched the truth behind hip hop?
 
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Tintin

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Ecclesiastik said:
As I have said a million times to a million different people: The Bible does not advocate walking around with a spiritual blind fold, post-modernism does.

There is a large difference between discerning and judging. You were mad because I made an observation, not because I swung a gavel.
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I'm not mad, who said I was mad?
 
kingerik

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Wow...honestly, I've seen Christian rappers bring Christ to people. Who are you to say what God can't use? I love praise and worship, but I also love Christian rap and honestly, there have been times when I would go into worship from a christian rap song. God will use it for his glory, it doesn't matter.

Can I share something with you...some of the hymns you sing today were just popular tunes at the time but with Godly lyrics written.
 
penknight

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The Lord works in mysterious ways, in all sorts of manners. A sometimes He gets our attention through things we're passionate about.
 
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