Explicit Jay-Z song used in church service; pastor defends it, says he curses sometimes in prayer too
Three young females
performed Jay-Z's "The Story of OJ" from the rapper's platinum
studio album, 4:44 ahead of the pastor's sermon on Sunday July 30, 2017 at the Tree of Life Baptist Missionary church.
This raised a whole lot of dust as to why the highly expletive non-Christian song should be used in church. The pastor defended it saying there is nothing wrong with a few expletives in church, he says, because he knows God can handle it.
"The truth is sometimes when I'm praying, my prayers are not 'guide me o thy great Jehovah, pilgrim through this barren land.' I'm not quoting from the 23rd Psalm. I'm not quoting from Philippians. Sometimes my prayers have explicit language in them. God I am bleep, bleep, bleep upset. And because of that, I learned that God can handle that,"
In the recording that runs for about 90 seconds, the congregation appear to watch in silence as the girls step, twirl and throw faux cash in the air to represent "follies" like wasting money on strippers described by Jay-Z in the lyrics of the song replete with the N-word and other explicit language.
Here is the lyrics of Jay Z's part in the song:
Light n*gga, dark n*gga, faux n*gga, real n*gga
Rich n*gga, poor n*gga, house n*gga, field n*gga
Still n*gga, still n*gga
Light n*gga, dark n*gga, faux n*gga, real nigga
Rich nigga, poor nigga, house nigga, field nigga
Still nigga, still nigga
You wanna know what's more important than throwin' away money at a strip club? Credit
You ever wonder why Jewish people own all the property in America? This how they did it
Financial freedom my only hope
F**k livin' rich and dyin' broke
I bought some artwork for one million
Two years later, that s**t worth two million
Few years later, that s**t worth eight million
I can't wait to give this s**t to my children
Y'all think it's bougie, I'm like, it's fine
But I'm tryin' to give you a million dollars worth of game for $9.99
I turned that 2 to a 4, 4 to an 8
I turned my life into a nice first week release date...
Someone suggested that if the pastor really like the message of the song, why didn't he use the clean version of it in church?
*This is so wrong.We Christians should know where to draw the line. The Bible warns us against using coarse language, so why use it in church?
Why this non-Christian song in the first place? I know there are very good clean secular songs with great messages in them but this song?! It was wrong.
This raised a whole lot of dust as to why the highly expletive non-Christian song should be used in church. The pastor defended it saying there is nothing wrong with a few expletives in church, he says, because he knows God can handle it.
"The truth is sometimes when I'm praying, my prayers are not 'guide me o thy great Jehovah, pilgrim through this barren land.' I'm not quoting from the 23rd Psalm. I'm not quoting from Philippians. Sometimes my prayers have explicit language in them. God I am bleep, bleep, bleep upset. And because of that, I learned that God can handle that,"
In the recording that runs for about 90 seconds, the congregation appear to watch in silence as the girls step, twirl and throw faux cash in the air to represent "follies" like wasting money on strippers described by Jay-Z in the lyrics of the song replete with the N-word and other explicit language.
Here is the lyrics of Jay Z's part in the song:
Light n*gga, dark n*gga, faux n*gga, real n*gga
Rich n*gga, poor n*gga, house n*gga, field n*gga
Still n*gga, still n*gga
Light n*gga, dark n*gga, faux n*gga, real nigga
Rich nigga, poor nigga, house nigga, field nigga
Still nigga, still nigga
You wanna know what's more important than throwin' away money at a strip club? Credit
You ever wonder why Jewish people own all the property in America? This how they did it
Financial freedom my only hope
F**k livin' rich and dyin' broke
I bought some artwork for one million
Two years later, that s**t worth two million
Few years later, that s**t worth eight million
I can't wait to give this s**t to my children
Y'all think it's bougie, I'm like, it's fine
But I'm tryin' to give you a million dollars worth of game for $9.99
I turned that 2 to a 4, 4 to an 8
I turned my life into a nice first week release date...
Someone suggested that if the pastor really like the message of the song, why didn't he use the clean version of it in church?
*This is so wrong.We Christians should know where to draw the line. The Bible warns us against using coarse language, so why use it in church?
Why this non-Christian song in the first place? I know there are very good clean secular songs with great messages in them but this song?! It was wrong.
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