We are living in interesting times when cowardly evangelical men fail to lead their families in godliness, church attendance, tithing, and fellowship and so much more. Membership in a local church is now viewed as optional. There was actually a time when membership in a local body was your identity marker like your baptism. But now people jump from church to church (sometimes several in a short amount of time) with a profound disdain for the pastor and the people’s liturgical and sacramental and shepherding role in their lives.
So, now we enter this stage when a world-wide celebrity enters the evangelical scene with an absolutely well-done album covering all the basics of what a true evangelical man ought to look like and think like and feel like and act like. Further, he affirms how a man ought to lead his house:
“Follow Jesus, listen and obey. No more living for the culture we nobody’s slave. Stand up for my home. Even if I take this walk alone, I bow down to the king upon the throne. My life is his, I’m no longer my own.”
But beyond all that, we are looking at the zeal of what I hope to be a new Christian so eager to explain his new-found faith that his Bible reading flows clearly through his lyrics. It’s true that Kanye has a lot of undoing to do; he needs no penance. In Christ, he is a new creation. But if he genuinely follows Christ in this toxic culture, he can be a powerful voice that can reach millions and millions. His undoing will be like a sweet aroma to so many who long for something more permanent than the temporary pleasures of this world.
Kanye may be God’s greatest humorous art piece in my short life. My hope is that God’s humor through the conversion of men will awaken the silliness of the modern evangelical man and awaken them from their slumber. https://open.spotify.com/album/0FgZKfoU2Br5sHOfvZKTI9…
