SHO BARAKA: SOUTHERN BAPTIST ALBERT MOHLER SLUMS UP THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY WITH DOPE SMOKING, PROFANE RAPPER
Albert Mohler Slums Up SBTS with Dope-Smoking, Profane Rapper
BY GIDEON KNOX
SEE: http://pulpitandpen.org/2017/03/17/albert-mohler-slums-up-sbts-with-dope-smoking-profane-rapper/;
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
“It is with a single man that error usually commences;
and when such a man has influence or position, it is impossible to
estimate the evil that will attend it.” James P. Boyce
“What are you thinking” doesn’t begin to
sum up the concern. Is this a practical joke? Is the most respected man
in all of Baptistdom (if not evangelicalism) really standing there with a
recreationally pot-smoking, foul-mouthed, gutter-talking Sho Baraka?
Really?
Sure enough.
Put on by Albert Mohler, Dan Dumas (Sr. Vice President at Southern Seminary) and Eric Geiger (Vice President of Lifeway), the Renown Conference is designed for Middle School an High School students and is hosted at SBTS, and it started today.
The Renown website posted Sho Baraka as the musical talent invited to
entertain the students, and says in his bio, “[Baraka] desires to blend
his artistic platform with his academic leanings to contribute a unique
perspective in both arenas in hopes of raising the standard, thereby
raising the culture.”
While that may sound ambitious, Baraka is best known as the
filthy-mouthed performer who blends talks about Jesus with vulgarity. He
has been making the news for his lewd speech (spoken and sung) since
2013 . You might give him a pass for singing the “N-Word” because of the color of his skin (if you’re an ethnic gnostic), but referring to his mother as the B-Word might
be tougher to stomach. And it’s not just lyrics to his profane songs,
but he regularly uses profanity on podcast interviews and in other
venues. Most recently Lifeway (of which Eric Geiger, above, is Vice
President) pulled his album to much protest among the “black community” (with tacit accusations of racial insensitivity, of course) because – according to Lifeway – profanity, as illustrated in the following lyrics:
But always pissed off, that’s because I thought with my penis
It’s all strategic, I’m just asking us the reason
Share my faith on the track, I’m just exorcising demons
This is the very same Sho Baraka who endorsed the use of recreational marijuana, saying “there are some laws that are unjust, and almost need to be broken” (source link). The same link, should you care to click on it to research it yourself, will provide the audio of that conversation.
One also has to wonder why on Earth a respected seminary would invite
someone like Baraka to influence children and youth. To add insult to
injury, the theme of the Renown Conference was “Salt and Light,” and
claims that the conference exists to “help middle school and high school
students understand their purpose as Christians in serving as useful
elements in the service of God.”
Being a profane pot-smoking pseudo-celebrity is hardly being salt and
light. Adopting the culture’s vulgarities rather than shining forth the
Gospel isn’t being light. There is a difference between winning the
culture and being won by the culture. Sho Baraka is not the former.
At worst, Dr. Albert Mohler is seriously sliding into Downgrade and
bringing the SBTS with him. At best, he’s guilty of the soft-bigotry of
lowered expectations in order to achieve some semblance of cultural
unity.
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“Have you ever asked the
question: What is the purpose of the Christian life? Jesus described
this life in Matthew 5:13-16 as represented by two elements: Salt &
Light.
Salt represents usefulness, healing,
and the ability to change things for the better, while light speaks to
prevailing over darkness as a shining beacon of truth for the gospel.
But in the same passage Jesus warns that salt can become tasteless and
light can be hidden. When these things happen, both elements are
useless.
How can a Christian remain useful to Jesus Christ the king? Renown: Salt & Light
is a conference designed to help middle school and high school students
understand their purpose as Christians in serving as useful elements in
the service of God. Join us as our speakers Albert Mohler, Dan Dumas
and Eric Geiger help guide students toward the Scriptures in order to
gain an understanding for their life’s highest calling; Bringing the
light and changing power of the gospel to men and women in need of
reconciliation to God.”
SPEAKERS:
ALBERT MOHLER
ERIC GEIGER
DAN DUMAS
RAP SINGER, SHO BARAKA
Sho Baraka
North Texas, Sho studied Television/Film, Anthropology, and Public
Administration. He has become an artist, philosopher, and social-thought
leader in contemporary culture. He has spent nine years traveling the
world as a recording artist and public speaker. He has done numerous
overseas activist work, ranging from race relations in South Africa to
establishing musical cohorts in Indonesia. He is a founding member of
nationally known Christian hip hop group 116 Clique. Sho Baraka is also
the founder of Forth District.
He now desires to blend his artistic platform with his academic
leanings to contribute a unique perspective in both arenas in hopes of
raising the standard, thereby raising the culture. Sho currently lives
in Atlanta, GA and co-leads a consulting network that is active in
cultural renewal.”
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