By the grace of God, I am a gospel rapper.

Rap in itself is a form of poetry. This is for those asking the origin of rap. The book of psalms, proverbs, SoS, have poetries in them. Both David and Solomon were singers and poets.

Rap and singing are both music...rap appears as tho u r talking, but rhyme and flowing to a beat...I'm sure you are familiar with spoken words, rap is just like that, but to a beat.

Many above have answered you @Op, believe me when I say IT IS NOT A SIN. Many only criticise what they dont understand, just like your old pastor and older generations, since they (rap and break dance) are not part of our African culture. But we have adopted it, just like we adopted dressing and many other things.


If you are SURE, what you do glorifies God...Then continue, God is proud of you, because you were made to glorify him.

"I don't live for the world, I live for the king"
-Nf

Queenlovely:
maybe

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
Warren Buffett


religion is a simple thing but all these over analyser is killing the fun.


when people nod eagerly when I lecture sometimes in church, I just point randomly and ask for summary of what they understand, they just give a stupid reversal of your main points.


I believe that is how Jesus feels sometimes

Or it's u who fails to make the main points stand out by use of artfully contrived tales.

The real gbas gbos is on Nairaland... not really Twitter... ���� LMAO at this thread... keenly analysing the ideological disparities... but a point got me thinking... I will summarize it as this; "you can't be more Catholic than the Pope." Here's it.... Africans are more spiritual than the British imperialist who brought the Christian religion... I'm not against that tho... so to say, the good sides of the Missionaries were the free schools, hospitals, and modern structures that they built... So what do we have today? Are we still in-line with the laid-down rules of engagements? I think the standard for every Christian should be the Bible, most especially the book of Acts of the Apostles, the records were written when Christianity was at its peak shortly after Jesus gave his disciples the mandate. We must ensure that the biblical standards are not re-written in order to satisfy selfish interests or nepotic desires... Let us focus on the content and not the container...

While the scriptures do not contain a yes or no answer to this issue, the same scriptures provide principles to guide our decisions about such situations. This is contained in Hebrews 5:14, which tells us that "through the use of our power of reasoning, we are able to tell right from wrong". Using our power of reasoning, we can ask ourselves:
What does this song or dance make me think about?
Does it make me think about God or the ways of the world?
Does the song or dance draw more attention to the person of the dancers, rather than attention to God?
Does the dance appear to make one possibly begin to idolize the dancers?
Honest answers to these self-searching questions would help us to direct our steps in line with the scriptures.

Danniedpastor:



Stripper pole is not a genre of music neither is it a dance step

It enhances dance. Since you want to enhance your dance in church to the level of break dancing, you can install a stripper poll.

Joshmodest:

After your first two paragraphs I didn't read the rest , cos I discovered you are a very hilarious clown ...
They should bring strong drink to the house and use it to wash their hands or bath or wash the pulpit or what exactly were they suppose to do with it since you know something we don't ...
Mr man venture into comedy , you have a career in jokes telling !!

If you had read beyond the first two paragraphs, you would have had your question answered
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Any dance at all..that does not glorify God is not for God. You don't dance any kind of dance in churches if you are not glorifying God with it.


Mind you, we dance to even circular songs at home. Does that mean we have sinned? No.
Now worshiping the father in churches should be orderly, hence we don't abuse the privilege.

Those dance steps (rap and so on) in churches, some of the youths are emulating these from unbelievers and make them their role model. How can light and darkness come together?


In summary, no kind of dance is chosen for worship except it glorifies God and you cannot worship God with dance steps you copy from an unbeliever because you not only copy dance steps but other things, as they are a role model to you..

Matrimonous:
To me, what matters most is the state of the mind rather than dancing steps.
King David really danced crazily at a point in his walk with God and it wasn't sinful.

point though

Johnny4President:
Do not luv d things of d world and be conformed to it.

The things that unbelievers live for are temporary and it can all b gone faster than a lighting strike. Live for CHRIST. Stop trying to fit in!!

Don't act how ppl of this world act, but instead be an IMITATOR of CHRIST and spread the gospel so others can one day go their HEAVENLY HOME.

1 John 4:5

1 John 2: 15-17

John 15:19

Ephesians 6:12

Final words:is it a sin?

As a born-again,I dont have a good voice to sing but I have been able to use rapping to spread the gospel in different churches.If rapping is bad,then why did God give us the gift.Many pastors of nowadays want to be like the pharisees of old,adding more laws to the one that God has already given,making the yoke heavy.

youngdabold19:



Final words:is it a sin?

As a born-again,I dont have a good voice to sing but I have been able to use rapping to spread the gospel in different churches.If rapping is bad,then why did God give us the gift.Many pastors of nowadays want to be like the pharisees of old,adding more laws to the one that God has already given,making the yoke heavy.

What i will say is; use ur gift judiciously, worldly things will fade away but God gift won't.

Worldly musicians fade away b4 they clock 50, but Christain musicians don't.

Choose the right path.

HomerTimpson:
pls what is the clear understanding of what it means to be SPIRITUAL

i see it as emptying ones self, avoiding sin and allowing the spirit of God to direct everything about you

When the spirit of the Lord is upon my soul , I WILL DANCE LIKE DAVID DANCE .

The Bible didn't say if he danced "normally " or break danced .... when the spirit is upon you , just like speaking in tongues , you dance in different styles


RAPPING ...... there are different ways to preach to the world ....... Model parishes in RCCG started because the church wanted to reach the Touts all around ..

if Rapping will do the magic for the kingdom of God .... so be it .

Just do it as the spirit leads .

oranget:
What fellowship hath darkness with light?
Why should it be Christians that emulate worldly things and not the other way round?
Rock n roll, Christian rock, rap and break dance are ungodly and should be discouraged among Christians

I see that you are ignorant
Black music is specific to black Americans. Whites invent Rock n roll. It is preposterous to seperate them from gospel. Its just life saying calling God "Allah" "Oluwa"or chi is wrong and the name " God" is the only correct one

Omokowa:
Any dance at all..that does not glorify God is not for God. You don't dance any kind of dance in churches if you are not glorifying God with it.


Mind you, we dance to even circular songs at home. Does that mean we have sinned? No.
Now worshiping the father in churches should be orderly, hence we don't abuse the privilege.

Those dance steps (rap and so on) in churches, some of the youths are emulating these from unbelievers and make them their role model. How can light and darkness come together?


In summary, no kind of dance is chosen for worship except it glorifies God and you cannot worship God with dance steps you copy from an unbeliever because you not only copy dance steps but other things, as they are a role model to you..

You are supporting Hypocrisy.
So we can break dance at home but not church.
Just like women should wear trousers at home but not church.
We should do anyhow at home but then act different in church.
Thats Hypocrisy to me

alBHAGDADI:


It enhances dance. Since you want to enhance your dance in church to the level of break dancing, you can install a stripper poll.

You didn't address the issue, rather you are comparing it with something worst.
What you are implying is if someone says there is nothing wrong with having bible on phone, your response is they should stop bring bible.

No body is talking about stripper polls stop deviating

gamyy:
By the grace of God, I am a gospel rapper.

Rap in itself is a form of poetry. This is for those asking the origin of rap. The book of psalms, proverbs, SoS, have poetries in them. Both David and Solomon were singers and poets.

Rap and singing are both music...rap appears as tho u r talking, but rhyme and flowing to a beat...I'm sure you are familiar with spoken words, rap is just like that, but to a beat.

Many above have answered you @Op, believe me when I say IT IS NOT A SIN. Many only criticise what they dont understand, just like your old pastor and older generations, since they (rap and break dance) are not part of our African culture. But we have adopted it, just like we adopted dressing and many other things.


If you are SURE, what you do glorifies God...Then continue, God is proud of you, because you were made to glorify him.

"I don't live for the world, I live for the king"
-Nf

Succinct.
This was what i was waiting to here

Saltzman00:
during jesus time too der was rap zanku and break dancing today. Its been use as a medium to reach the gospel too in a faster way...u sef reason before u talk

The motive towards your dance step matters, not the way you dance. David dance naked unknowingly because all his focus was praising the almighty God. I don't dance all those kinda dance but you not to praise God the way I like, as long as my heart is Seth to worship God I don't see it as a bad idea.

Only Tadireke is allowed in churches

Johnny4President:
Do not luv d things of d world and be conformed to it.

The things that unbelievers live for are temporary and it can all b gone faster than a lighting strike. Live for CHRIST. Stop trying to fit in!!

Don't act how ppl of this world act, but instead be an IMITATOR of CHRIST and spread the gospel so others can one day go their HEAVENLY HOME.

1 John 4:5

1 John 2: 15-17

John 15:19

Ephesians 6:12

Modified: It's a sin!! Use ur gift judiciously, don't live/follow "worldly" ways. The bible condems it.

Dancing and doing music was never part of what Jesus talked about. Our acts our beliefs was what Christ talked about. What is rap? A fast spoken line or piece of song. What is brake dance? A dance just like your cultural dance. Don't people dance in church? So what's wrong with brake dance? Does it entice anyone to lust? Does it involve shaking of bombom like our cultural dances? Is it illicit or sexually inviting? You people self can be amazing most times

Salt3:


Dancing and doing music was never part of what Jesus talked about. Our acts our beliefs was what Christ talked about. What is rap? A fast spoken line or piece of song. What is brake dance? A dance just like your cultural dance. Don't people dance in church? So what's wrong with brake dance? Does it entice anyone to lust? Does it involve shaking of bombom like our cultural dances? Is it illicit or sexually inviting? You people self can be amazing most times

Seconded.

I knew this topic was going to be controversial

Nawa oh

Kalatium:

I wrote that already in my post

No you didn't.

joyfullyjoyous:
Break dance shouldn't be banned,only seductive dances like twerking should be. When the spirit of the Lord is upon my soul,I will dance like David danced. Av been wondering exactly how David danced ever since.

Nice

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