I know that this is a Christian blog, but I feel like this will help us understand some things. As some of you may have heard, the MTV Video Music Awards took place this past Sunday. People are given awards and they are allowed to make acceptance speeches afterward. I didn’t know about the Awards until later when I went home and logged onto Facebook. It was then that I saw a young woman’s status that talked about how she dislikes Kanye West. I became curious. So like anyone else that wants the latest information from the entertainment world, I checked it out on YouTube. I found a plethora of things like, the actual video, people’s videos about the video, remixes of the video, and even comments from POTUS about what happened.
Apparently Kanye was a little disturbed that Taylor Swift received the best female video. Kanye proceeded to interrupt Taylor’s speech and tell everyone that Beyonce’s video was one of the best videos of all time. This was before Beyonce received the award for video of the year. Beyonce was in shock. The crowd was in shock. I was in shock and yes, you were/are in shock. That is just SO distasteful. Who does something like that?
You might ask what this has to do with “Notes.” I must tell you that Kanye’s behavior reminded me of some of our own behavior when it comes to different styles of music. Too often we have heard someone or even ourselves criticize someone’s singing or playing and justify it by accusing it of not being godly. No, we don’t get up in the middle of someone singing certain contemporary songs and exclaim that another style is so much closer to Heaven. But there are the occasions when these exclamations come across the pulpit and people can sometimes feel like sinners because a certain sound is more pleasing to their ear. When does the madness stop?
But there are more Kanyes than this kind. There is a type of Kanye that would criticize another for not liking these contemporary songs. There are those that would tell people they have to sing a certain style to attract people to their church. In the words of an old pastor of mine – Hogwash! Jesus said if we lift Him up, He’d draw all men to Himself. It doesn’t matter what style of music you sing at your church. All you need to be concerned with is whether you are lifting up Jesus Christ. If you lift Him highest with country praise, break out your steel guitar baby! If you lift Him highest with contemporary Christian, plug in the acoustic! If you lift Him highest with black gospel, PLEASE fire up that Hammond B-3/C-3!
What everybody needs to understand is that it’s not Kanye that’s choosing the winners. It’s not anybody on this earth that’s receiving our praise but Jesus Christ, let Him decide what’s acceptable. God Bless!
Apparently Kanye was a little disturbed that Taylor Swift received the best female video. Kanye proceeded to interrupt Taylor’s speech and tell everyone that Beyonce’s video was one of the best videos of all time. This was before Beyonce received the award for video of the year. Beyonce was in shock. The crowd was in shock. I was in shock and yes, you were/are in shock. That is just SO distasteful. Who does something like that?
You might ask what this has to do with “Notes.” I must tell you that Kanye’s behavior reminded me of some of our own behavior when it comes to different styles of music. Too often we have heard someone or even ourselves criticize someone’s singing or playing and justify it by accusing it of not being godly. No, we don’t get up in the middle of someone singing certain contemporary songs and exclaim that another style is so much closer to Heaven. But there are the occasions when these exclamations come across the pulpit and people can sometimes feel like sinners because a certain sound is more pleasing to their ear. When does the madness stop?
But there are more Kanyes than this kind. There is a type of Kanye that would criticize another for not liking these contemporary songs. There are those that would tell people they have to sing a certain style to attract people to their church. In the words of an old pastor of mine – Hogwash! Jesus said if we lift Him up, He’d draw all men to Himself. It doesn’t matter what style of music you sing at your church. All you need to be concerned with is whether you are lifting up Jesus Christ. If you lift Him highest with country praise, break out your steel guitar baby! If you lift Him highest with contemporary Christian, plug in the acoustic! If you lift Him highest with black gospel, PLEASE fire up that Hammond B-3/C-3!
What everybody needs to understand is that it’s not Kanye that’s choosing the winners. It’s not anybody on this earth that’s receiving our praise but Jesus Christ, let Him decide what’s acceptable. God Bless!
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