Michael in St. Paul, Minnesota asks, Pastor John, are you aware of the influence your ministry

has had and is having on the Christian hip-hop scene?

I have seen some of my words show up.

I doubt that I could say I'm aware in any kind of formal way of any extent of influence.

I don't really know, but what I've seen, I saw, for example, in Tadashi's Make War, I

knew that.

That was my voice.

I just heard.

Yes, that was my phrase, and then I watched what he did with it, and I thought, whoa, that's

pretty powerful.

I know that La Cray's Don't Waste Your Life video was related to the book Don't Waste

Your Life, and I'm honored by that.

I've listened to those and many, many others, so here are just a few thoughts, mostly positive,

and a couple of questions.

I just rejoice that so much truth in our day from evangelical guys, I guess it's mainly

guys.

I don't know if I heard a woman do rap, are pouring so much truth into this form.

I mean, I just love it when glorious truth gets poured into different cultural forms, because

I care about the truth way more than I care about the forms.

Even though I know we can't be indifferent to forms, there's something about this form that

enables to be very dense with the Bible, and it has the advantage of being in large part

narrative.

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