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October 30, 2014 · 2 Kings 3:15 (NIV)
Hip-Hop and Theology: How the Psalter Altars Culture
But now bring me a harpist.” While the harpist was playing, the hand of the Lord came on ElishaScripture quotations taken from The Holy Bible, New International Version® NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
“I believe every pastor is a poet. There's a way in which, when you speak orally, there's going to be a poetic cadence to it. … I don't believe there's a demonic harmonic, because harmony is of God. So to say that there's a musical style that is inherently evil, sometimes it sounds like that, death metal stuff, but I know people who love that stuff and they worship through it. The music itself can't be evil. That's my own position. … There would be no hip-hop if there were no Psalms. … What I love about that is, to me, it's like he's sitting there and the king says, give me a prophecy. He's like, all right, drop the funky beat. And then he does it.”
His charge, that Sunday
“Let's be Christian studying this stuff and speaking into it and thinking about our culture.”
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Church: Tyndale University
More writing: Theology, Philosophy, and Culture