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Re: HELP! new praise & worship leader needs advice :-)



"David Bruce Murray" wrote:

> > Whether or not the first
> > person who ever rapped used it for evil (that is, that in their own
lyrics
> > and even in their gestures they may have been unholy), that doesn't mean
> > that "rap" itself is unholy.  The words used by the people may have been
> > unholy, but how they expressed it isn't.
>
> And it's only within the realm of music that anyone would disagree with
you.
> That's what I find ironic. We don't think of fire as inherently good or
> evil, for example. There's a big difference between an arsonist and a guy
> flame broiling hamburgers . . . we don't blame the medium used to
accomplish
> the task in those cases.

That's a great point.  In fact I was trying to think of an example like that
but just wasn't coming up with anything.

-Breeze





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