Gospel Remix : Reaching The Hip Hop Generation

How can we understandand reach the hip hop generation? Hip hop is DJing and MCing, break dancing and rapping; street art, street talk, and street smarts. It has its own language, its own look, its own consciousness. Hip hop is a culture and an identity, and for many African American churches, hip hop and its generation are both disturbing and frightening.Hip hop raises difficult questions for church leaders:Do we accept hip hop or critique it? How can we as African Americans embrace something that makes us look so bad? How do we move from the objective study of a culture to being in fellowship with its people and empathizing with their lot in life? Can one "live hip hop" and still be a Christian? Professor, and preacher-turned-DJ Ralph Watkins has struggled with these issues. In this important new resource he addresses the questions up front, offering sociological perspective, theological insight, biblical principles, and personal experience. Helping to provide the answers are contributors Jason Barr, Jamal Bryant, William Curtis, and Otis Moss III who are already creating The Gospel Remix in their own congregations and communities. They respond with candid ministry profiles of the hip hop pastor as prophet, father, peer, and model professional.If you are serious about disciple making and reaching the lost, learn to walk as Jesus did, among this generation's "tax collectors and sinners, " and discover as Paul did how to become all things to all people for the sake of winning a few