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This Is Karen Hunter

S E39: Kanye Starts a Church?

This Is Karen Hunter

Knarrative

Empowerment, Africana Studies, Greg Carr, Karen Hunter, History, Education, Society & Culture

4.5888 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Kanye West is starting a church. There are no sermons. No prayers. No scriptures. No bible readings. Just music (both secular and gospel) and talking. He has no training to be a pastor. Is this church? Or is it something else.

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This is starting a church.

0:15.0

Actually, he's already started a church, and I'm putting air quotes around church.

0:20.0

He started this church back in January 2019 and Easter Sunday 2019 at Coachella

0:27.8

50,000 people showed up to this church service where they sang popular music and some gospel music and

0:37.2

sold $70 t-shirts and sweatshirts for $225 and $50 socks that said things like Holy Spirit and trust God and Sunday

0:47.1

Service at the Mountain.

0:50.0

It was publicized in several articles about this church.

0:53.6

People magazine actually broke the story that

0:56.4

Kiney West is considering actually launching a church.

0:59.6

And in this, they quote a source that said that K that Kanye is extremely passionate about his faith

1:05.1

and wants to share it more regularly with people.

1:07.8

He spends a lot of time studying and praying

1:10.2

and wants to share his journey.

1:12.3

And Kim Kardashian and L magazine said. and There's no sermon. It's definitely something he believes in Jesus and there's a Christian vibe but there's no preaching it's just a very spiritual Christian experience on Jimmy Kimmel

1:30.4

Kim Kardashian said there's no praying there's no sermon there's no word it's just

1:35.1

music and it's just a feeling well I ask you is that church? Is that Christianity? I'm going to answer that for myself and I'm

1:47.8

going to say hell no with an emphasis on hell because in my Bible and I mean the Bible is the book that you use when you're a Christian,

1:56.0

and we can argue about whether the Bible was commanded by, you know, King James and commissioned by the consulate, you know, we can get into that man the man pick these books or whatever but if you're a

2:07.4

Christian a follow of Christ the word is important, it's not just a feeling.

2:15.0

Christianity is a relationship actually.

2:19.0

The following of the life of Jesus,

2:22.0

the following of the deeds of Jesus and Jesus his own commission was to go out

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