The Hip-Hop Church: Connecting With the Movement Shaping Our Culture (Paperback)

~ (Author), Phil Jackson (Author)

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Product Description

Hip-hop is here.

The beats ring out in our cities. Hip-hop culture is all around us: in the clothes youth wear, in the music they listen to, in the ways they express themselves. It is the language they speak, the rhythm they move to. It is a culture familiar with the hard realities of our broken world; the generation raised with rap knows about the pain. They need to know about the hope.

Enter the hip-hop church.

Like the culture it rises from, the hip-hop church is relevant and bold. And it speaks to the heart. In this book, pastors Efrem Smith and Phil Jackson show the urgency of connecting hip-hop culture and church to reach a generation with the gospel of Jesus Christ. They give practical ideas from their urban churches and other hip-hop churches about how to engage and incorporate rap, break dancing, poetry and deejays to worship Jesus and preach his Word.

Hip-hop culture is shaping the next generation. Ignoring it will not reduce its influence; it will only separate us from the youth moving to its rhythm. How will they hear Christ's message of truth and hope if we don't speak their language? And how can we speak their language if we don't understand and embrace their culture?

Hear the beat. Join the beat. Become the beat that brings truth and hope to a hungry, hurting generation.

From the Publisher

* Connects hip-hop culture and the church to reach a generation with the gospel

* Helps you understand hip-hop culture

* Shows how to engage and incorporate rap, break dancing, poetry and deejays

* Offers practical ideas from the authors' own urban churches and other hip-hop churches

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Product Details

• Paperback: 227 pages
• Publisher: IVP Books (January 31, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0830833293
• ISBN-13: 978-0830833290
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #604,767 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Church needs to KNOW THE DEAL, January 12, 2006

By	William McBride "Will" (Washington DC) - See all my reviews

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.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Madd Props for these Hip Hop Theologians, January 23, 2006

By	Quentez "Joe" (Cali) - See all my reviews

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!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eye Opener, May 29, 2006

By	K. Little (APO, AE USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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....