Earlier this week, Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch shared his distaste for people, specifically Christians, who use their faith as a weapon for division.
Welch is a cofounder of the nu metal band Korn, which is known for powerful, heavy-sounding guitar riffs and dark lyrics that are often laced with four-letter words. After giving his life to Jesus in 2005, Welch took an eight-year absence from the band before rejoining the band in 2013.
“[God] started breaking off religious mindsets and showing me that he wasn’t afraid to leave the perfection and holiness of heaven to come down to a very dark place with a lot of corruption,” Welch told ChurchLeaders during an interview earlier this year.
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“What if all of the judgmental Christian religious base are completely wrong in how they’re going about things? What if most of the political Christians are acting in the exact opposite character of how they should be?” Welch asked his social media followers in a post on Nov. 9. ”What if they’re getting it all wrong?”
Welch continued, “What if at the end of their life, and I hope this doesn’t happen, but what if they discover that all they did was use their faith as a weapon for division?”
The “Freak on a Leash” rocker said that a lot of what he sees regarding religion looks a lot like what he just described. “And I’m completely sick of it,” said Welch.
He went on to propose to his million-plus social media followers that “what if you were given every single spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ?” Welch added, “What if you personally were chosen in Christ, before the creation of the world, to be completely blameless?”
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What if, Welch said, “no blame can be thrown at you, free from accusations. No accusations can be thrown at you and completely perfect in God’s sight.”
Welch asked:
What if you’re given that as a gift, and the only reason you were given that is so God can be so good to you, and the only motive is to display the riches of his kindness towards you forever. What if he just wanted to lavish on you gift after gift after gift forever. And the gifts start in this life, and then when you walk through death’s door, you get the fullness of it. So what if you get a down payment now in this life?
Welch concluded, “What if you were chosen for all of this?”
Earlier this week, Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch shared his distaste for people, specifically Christians, who use their faith as a weapon for division.Click to Post
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