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| "GOSPEL
REGGAE ARTISTS" boo-ed off stage in
Jamaica, 2006 |
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When these people actually believe that they are ministers and sent to speak to
the church like teachers, then the Bible says something completely different.
Paulus the apostle told the Corinthians: "Let one or two speak, and let
the rest judge".
So it is obvious. Mrs Brooks says that they "fashion the world too
much", and I would agree with her. But not in the way she means it! I
would say, that these so-called Gospel Reggae Ministers should immidiatly stop
equating themselves with the Most High, stop patterning themselves after the
so-called "secular stars" who expect worship from their audience.
For that, I contend, is the real issue at stake, here.
Mark Mohr claims to be the "pioneer and trailblazer of the gospel reggae
genre". And these are not
my words. Therefore, he is the culprit behind this whole blasphemic theatre
that only divides Rastas and Christians and especially those who are both.
He allways tells us to "look at my fruits, the efforts of my labor".
Here we have his fruits, next to the Jamaicans who are (again, not my words)
"dead
or in jail".
At the cost, over the backs of ordinary people, Jamaican people especially,
these so-called "ministers" claim an authority that only YESUS
KRISTOS has. They expect to be worshipped which only JAH should receive, or as
one of them put it on a Dubroom message board: "it is
nice to receive honour on earth".
Yes, we do indeed look to the fruits. And what do we see? Fussing and fighting,
people divided. While the ministers gather themselves in expensive clothing on
expensive locations to worship each other, they expect us -mortal humans- to
worship them for the "stars" that they (claim they) are.
Is that "Christianity"?
It is time, truly and really time, for all Christians who know themselves to be
actively incolved in the production of Reggae Music, to come to their senses.
None of us should seperate ourselves from the so-called "secular
world" when it comes to our jobs in music. We should simply stand, in this
work, side by side with the others who are struggling to promote Reggae Music
as a whole, so that especially Jamaicans can benefit from it because when we
all promote Reggae, the music will be in need for more and more artists.
And we all know, how important it is that artists from Jamaica -among many
other places- get heard so that they can make a living for themselves.
Let our spirituality, our Christian faith, not be used as merchandize in no
gospel industry for it is no "holy industry". We see the fruits and
we discuss it right here because the press reports on it.
Let our spirituality and Christianity simply be the drive for what we do as
long as we are in this world.
Thanks for reading. I would love to read anyone's comments.
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