Over the weekend, Grammy award-
winning artist Chance the Rapper had a
heated scuffle with pastors on social
media about the church’s response to
racial injustice.
According to Relevant Magazine, the
exchange began after the singer,
whose full name is Chancelor
Johnathan Bennett, asked his Christian
followers on Twitter why the church
has long refused to speak on the topic
of racism.
He wrote, “Why don’t we as a church
explicitly address White Supremacy
and racism on Sundays? Why don’t we
engage the truths of America and how
it’s values are antithetical to the
Gospel?”
Bennett continued, “Is it not directly the
responsibility of the Church to
dismantle and defeat White
Supremacy? Is equality not the basis
for forming the body of Christ?”
Chance The Rapper
*@chancetherapper
I’m sure I’m gonna get replies from
nonbelievers but I’d like to ask my
Christian followers out there: Why don’t
we as a church explicitly address White
Supremacy and racism on Sundays? Why
don’t we engage the truths of America and
how it’s values are antithetical to the
Gospel?
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Bennett, who has long been outspoken
about his Christian faith, responded to
his followers with thoughtful responses
and questions until someone tagged
several pastors to discuss the matter
further with the Chicago based rapper.
The first to respond was Pastor Phil
Johnson of Grace Community Church,
who also serves in Pastor John
MacArthur’s media ministry, Grace To
You, as its executive director.
Johnson cautioned Bennett of the
dangers of “Wokism” calling it “a
blatantly racist worldview, condemning
entire ethnic groups for sins that were
committed generations ago by people
long dead,” according to a blog post
that Johnson wrote and linked to
Bennett.
“Adopting a leftist political agenda
would actually undermine gospel truth,”
Johnson wrote in the tweet linking the
article.
Phil Johnson
@Phil_Johnson_
It’s the values of this WORLD (not just Am
that are antithetical to the gospel and host
God (James 4:4), and I hear preachers poi
fact out regularly.
Adopting a leftist political agenda would a
undermine gospel truth.
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Tyler Darnell @darnellzy1
Replying to @chancether
@DrOakley1689 @Phil_J
@NatePickowicz @Pasto
could give great answers
Wokeism Is a Hateful Religion
by Phil Johnson BTW, “Get Woke or get
In response, Bennett asked Johnson,
“is dismantling White Supremacy an
exclusively ‘leftist’ agenda?”
He added, “Is hearing a preacher
directly pointing to the racist structure
of our country today somehow worse
than making an overarching
conversation about how all sin
matters? [White Supremacy] is built on
works of the flesh, we can say
that,” Bennett asserted.
Pastor Gabriel Hughes of Kansas’ First
Southern Baptist Church
challenged Bennett by dismissing the
notion of “White Supremacy” while
asserting that individual sin is the real
issue.
“You have the same rights I do”,
Hughes wrote . “You’re also a sinner as
I am. We were all ‘hated by others and
hating one another’ (Titus 3:3 ).
“All of us are guilty of this. Repent of
your sin, believe in Jesus and follow
Him, and be saved from the judgment
of God,” he continued.
Hughes also noted that Bennett’s
financial success as a mainstream
artist shows that he has “the same
opportunities to ‘make it’ as anyone.”
“Yes, there are still divisions, but not
because of a ‘racist structure.’ It’s
because people are sinners,” Hughes
added.
Gabriel Hughes
@Pastor_Gabe
Racist structure? You have exactly the sa
rights I do.
You’re also a sinner as I am. We were all “
by others and hating one another” (Titus 3:
of us are guilty of this. Repent of your sin,
in Jesus and follow Him, and be saved fro
judgment of God.
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Replying to @Phil_Johnso
Is dismantling White Supr
“leftist” agenda? Is hearin
pointing to the racist stuct
today somehow worse th
overarching conversation
matters? WS is built on w
can say that.
Bennett disagreed with Hughes by
pointing to history first while quoting
Ephesians 6:12 .
“You’re obfuscating,” Bennett
responded. “You’re old enough and
grown enough to either study the
history of law in the United States or
know it already.”
“If you are confused about the
placement of judgment, it’s not on
people but the system of white
supremacy that is in every American
institution. I forgive you tho (sic),” the
rapper concluded.
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