THE PRICE TAG OF A SUNDAY SERVICE.

the Kanye West story.

Letter to Christian Community.

By Solomon Maseko

Luke 14 v 26-27

 “If you want to be my disciple, you must, by comparison, hate everyone else—your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even your own life. Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple. And if you do not carry your own cross and follow me, you cannot be my disciple.

Jesus is calling people to follow him in discipleship, and then he’s reminding them that it’s like building a tower that you don’t want to leave half-finished because you don’t have enough commitment or enough resources to finish it. It’s like going to war and realizing you don’t have enough soldiers to win the battle and defeat the enemy.

In January 2019, Kanye West began his Sunday Service performance series in Calabasas, California, with the choir group The Samples and other collaborators performing a combination of hymns and secular pop songs rewritten with Christian theme.

Following Christ will mean denying ourselves. It means recognizing that we are not our own anymore. Since Christ has already paid for us with His blood, we ought to realize that we don't own ourselves anymore. Our decisions and directions in life aren't ours to make anymore. Christ has the rights to us, and He owns us and Kanye has indeed denied himself he had an awesome career in music most probably making millions but he made a big move.

The real question would be, ‘who deserves to be saved by the grace of the Lord’? because many Christians do not believe that Kanye is really born again.

Kanye is doing what most of the Christians would not do spending his own finances in his travelling ministry paying the flight costs for the choir.

(Acts 8:1-3)

Saul leads a violent persecution of the young Christian church in Jerusalem. He goes from house to house, dragging men and women off to prison. When believers are found guilty of what is considered to be ‘blasphemy’, Saul calls for them to be stoned to death (see Acts 26:10).

What do you think the people who were living in the days of Saul said when Jesus Christ welcomed him as one of his disciples? Of course they have complaint and most especially those that where experienced in the religion of Christianity but Christ at his level never judged Paul who was known as Saul what then gives us the power to judge someone’s salvation.

If Jesus gave Paul a change why can`t we allow him to give Kanye a chance and if we pray every day that we may be changed and become like Christ we then need to be welcoming like our Christ does. So why would following Christ be very hard and costly? It's because it requires that we die to ourselves. It requires us to surrender our will to Him. It requires nothing but total obedience from us.

I saw a bracelet written What Would Jesus Do (WWJD) and I felt I would be relevant when we look at the situation of Kanye and many other people who you think don`t deserve to be forgiven by the Lord we must ask our self what would Christ do.

We all deserve the Grace.