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Should Christians Be Taught To Fight?

Can we ever truly just fight for something without having to fight against something else? Should (good) Christians fight against anything? What about religiosity? My first reaction to "The Soul of Hip Hop", by D W Hodge was how I was quite taken with his topic, methodological approach to communicating it, his passion and his testimony—who doesn’t like a good story? But I was left with some questions in the end and concerns that have left me wondering if this is a safe book for young and influential youth ministers to read? One could be persuaded to give in to a vigilantism or “we vs. them” stance in the Church. Not that we don’t have that already at times. Times are changing quickly. There is a tide that is upon us and an unidentified undertow that seems to be slowly eroding a foundation—whether it is the good parts of the foundation or the bad has to be discerned. I found myself routing and cheering when Hodge used such terminology as “the domesticating of converts” bein

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