What do you value?

A seminary friend of mine... Duce... aka "The Ambassador"...is part of the rap group the Cross Movement... and is a pastor at Epiphany Fellowship in Philadelphia. I recently came across the church's core values music video. That's right... I said music video because it is a rap video... performed by some of the Cross Movement guys.

I first heard of CM in the mid-90's and was immediately intrigued not only by their hot sound but by their theologically informed lyrics.

What I love about what Duce is doing is that he realizes that the gospel is not just about redeeming individuals but about redeeming culture. You could say he is calling his urban/rap culture to reform to repent and to return to Christ. He doesn't preach about the sin of rap... he preaches about sin through rap.

His incarnational approach to ministry is right on... and to that I give Duce a Vanilla Ice "Word to your mutha!".



So from the looks of it... the core values of Epiphany Fellowship are... Commitment... Community... Culturally Relevant... Conversion... Christo-Centrism... but I'm just a suburban white kid, so something might have been lost in translation. Peace Out!