OPINION (FW) – Kanye West just dropped his album: Jesus is King. We went to see his first concert post-album which was at the Forum in Los Angeles, CA. What we got was a hybrid of a Gospel Choir concert and a Billy Graham type of outreach. My wife, Cherie, and I were getting ready to go to the event and my YouTube suggested a video titled “Kanye West: Jesus Is King, Sunday Service, and Being Born Again,” by Apple Music. It is a brilliant follow-up to an interview he did several years ago with the same host. We watched this video as we got ready and it was both enlightening about his true conversion but also showed you that he is at the beginning of his salvation experience.
He still has some deep emotional struggles which came across many times in the interview like when he said, “I am unquestionably the greatest artist of all time.” Or that he still wants to run for president. I found myself cringing, not at him but at the fact that because he is a very public person in his inner process that Christians and the others in the world might just discount the genuineness of what is really going on in his life and just place it in the mental illness category. Kanye has been extremely passionate about many things in waves, and a lot of people both in culture and in Christianity are not buying his conversion. READ MORE
