Pastor Opens Hip Hop Church To Attract Young People To Christianity

A Pew Research study has reported that Americans ages 18 to 29 are typically less religious than older generations.  Pastor Quinn Rodgers hopes to change this apparently indifferent attitude toward religion.  This is why he opened the Generation One hip hop church last week.

You won’t find a pipe organ, or even sit in a pew. Pastor Quinn Rodger’s says Generation One is geared specifically towards reaching a younger and un-churched generation.

The Huntersville, North Carolina church will not hold your average service of choir hymns.  Rodgers thinks that it will take some fresh, new approaches to reach the younger crowds.  ”We’re trying to reach the un-churched, the de-churched, the folks who have given up on church and are looking for something different,” Rodgers told WBTV.

The church services will instead incorporate beats, rhymes, and other aspects of hip hop culture, but with a sanctified twist.

“We’ve taken the hip-hop culture and we’ve extracted all the negative connotations out of it and we’ve deposited solid Christian doctrine in there,” Rodgers said.

Rodgers was inspired to use hip hop influences based on the “consciousness” of earlier hip hop.  “It brought about a social and economic awareness that challenged individuals to examine themselves and change,” explained Rodgers.  “And when I look at the church, we are challenged as Christians to do the same with our walk with Christ.”

“18 to 40, we can’t get those people into church because the traditional stuff isn’t working anymore,” added Juanita Rann-Scott, an affiliate of Generation One.

Generation One’s service is held every Saturday evening at 5PM.

The infusion of hip hop with Christianity has been gaining popularity within the past few years.  Rappers like LeCrae and Bizzle have music that revolves around their religious beliefs, yet they have both gained a considerable amount of attention from mainstream music outlets.

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