On Sunday (Nov. 2), Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch shared a two-minute video to over a million of his social media followers explaining the difference between religion and a relationship with Jesus.
Formed in 1993, Korn is one of the world’s best-known nu metal bands and has received multiple awards, including two Grammys.
“Religion and religious people will pile on you loads and loads of guilt,” said Welch. “They tower over you with their self righteousness to make you feel that you are way beneath them, in order to keep you in that spirit of control over your life.”
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Welch shared that he has seen it “countless times” and described religion as a “cancer to spirituality,” saying that it “chases so many people away from even the thought of relationship with Christ.”
“Christ, on the other hand, is a real heart to heart relationship,” Welch continued. “It’s your heart connected spiritually in union with Christ’s heart. He leads you to himself by kindness, while acknowledging your flaws; [he] will definitely ask, by leading you spiritually, to lay down some things.”
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Welch explained that those “flaws” won’t be removed in order to take away the fun in your life. “It’s never about taking the fun away in your life,” he said. “It’s about getting the things in your life out, completely out, of your life, so that you can have a healthier form of existence on this planet.”
“It’s never about taking things away from you so that you have a more boring life. But he leads you by kindness. He leads you to acknowledge your flaws, and then he empowers you to lay those flaws down,” Welch added. “We don’t have to do it in our own strength. Christ empowers us through his Spirit to live a better life, to live a healthier life, and that’s what grace is.”
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Welch told his social media followers that God empowers us “through the Spirit” to lay down these “flaws.”
“Religion is corrupting this world—it has been for countless centuries—but there is a lot of people waking up to the true fact of relationship, especially in the last like 20 years of just see so many people latch on to the real,” Welch concluded.
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