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The Hip-Hop Church: Connecting with the Movement Shaping Our Culture

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This book is like long over due I wish these cats could have written it like years ago, because it is so needed to help the church to understand. I like this book alot because it gave you both an understanding of Hip Hop History, its impact in the streets and its connection with the church. This needs to be in every Pastors Libary.

Hey I got a madd Props for these cats they have boke it down for the church, Christians to get it about how Hip Hop and it's potential to be righteous, espeicaily to the Kingdom of God. They go into dept about the Bronx and how the poverity during that time created a need for the people to release from the tention it was facing and Hip-Hop made that happen. They talk with knowledge about the history of hip hop, its spiritual side and as Christian Pastors how they see how Hip Hop can get back to it's roots of it's positive influnce in thelives of those living in the hood. They talk about the parents of Hip Hop, Negro spirituals and the blues, I mean these brothas did their homework and made it both acidemic and pracitcal at the same time. YO COP THIS BOOK!

I was blessed reading this book because I believe that Efrem Smith and Phil Jackson have given voice to an entire generation of people who ARE hip hop and love Jesus! I recommend this book 100%...it should be required reading for any Urban ministry course!

Brother E
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This book has open my eyes to a world that has so much to offer to The Kingdom Of Jesus the Christ....the book will help you understand the Hip-Hop Generation and help take back for the Glory of Christ....this book is a must read for everyone, even if you don't like Hip--Hop....

Church as usual needs to wake up and The Hip Hop Church is the rooster crowing. This book is phenomenal! As a person within the music industry as well as youth ministry I feel the discourse introduced by Smith and Jackson is a timely and imperative one that I am prayerful will no longer go on ignored. The future of generations yet unborn, our lives, churches, communities, and the nation depend on us getting this message! The time is now. CHURCH/World, are you listening--WAKE-UP!

Phil and Efrem don't just talk the talk, they walk the walk. They are true ministers of the gospel. I have heard each of them bring the Word of God in a relevant and real way. But more than that they understand a culture that most of the church is missing. This book is vital to reaching a generation.
Hip hop is here to stay. Will the church ignore it?

this book is a must read of any minister, youth worker, dj, music worker, or anyone dealing with the youth wanting to use the hip hop culture.

This is definitely a must have for any Leader who works with teens and is looking for ways to impact a future generation.

Efrem Smith and Phil Jackson's THE HIP-HOP CHURCH: CONNECTING WITH THE MOVEMENT SHAPING OUR CULTURE provides an important survey which advocates reaching spiritual souls through their own language - the music of hiphop. From understanding hiphop culture to bringing it into the church, any involved in a church and seeking to involve urban youth must have THE HIP-HOP CHURCH: it's an inspirational survey of how to reach out in an alternative manner.

Efremm and Jackson do a great job bridging the gap between the hip hop generation and the church. They engage one without the defaming the the other. Great book and informative. it also gives diffrent ways to use hip hop in youth ministries.