God’s Block

February 25th, 2008

I’m sitting here at the Text and Context conference watching the guys from God’s Block. These guys are rapping to tell people about Christ—and man is it powerful. I’m usually cynical of these kinds of things, but these guys love Christ.

A good friend of mine, Mike Hanson, had left his cushy life growing up in a nice house on a lake to go live the street life—drugs, hip-hop, women, etc. God stopped Mike and gave him repentance. Hallelujah. He started discipling a group of young guys from the church I grew up at. Mike had a heart for the people he use to be friends with, he wanted to see them worship God. So he went to the local barbershop that the black guys hung out at, and asked if he could start a Bible study. That was the start of God’s Block.

Now God’s Block is a bunch of guys that unabashedly preach the gospel in the language that the hip hop culture speaks—rap lyrics and pointedly preaching. If you have the unreached hip hop culture living around you. Give these guys a call. Most of the time you read about something like this it’s totally zune, a bad knock off, these guys are the real deal.

Our goal is to glorify art, and we want to start pointing to people that are using art and talents they have to point to God.