Jeff Johnson from BET gave a great speech on the church and the hip-hop sub-culture.
“To often urban ministry is nothing more than suburban ministry in black face – where we have these huge suburban churches that have created these huge sophisticated curriculums that are opposed to dealing with the nuances of what people are dealing with in the urban communities. They just slap an Asian person or a black person or somebody that looks broke on the cover of the book with some graffiti in the background and then everything is all good. But the reality is – hip-hop is nothing more than a language. And if the people of God would be able to affectively utilize that language they would be able to speak to a nation of young people that think Christians are punks.”
