You don't have that new blouse you have been dreaming about. You can't get that new phone right away. Your dream car is still years away from becoming reality. You don't have that big house with all the extra bedrooms and bathrooms. You don't have the best job in the world and you aren't the most educated person. However you have clothes on your back , you have a roof over your head, you have a place to lay your head at night. You have parents this morning who are making plans to bury their young along with the death of their child the dreams they had for them dies as well. When you wake up and you go around like its business as usual you don't get enough lunch money and you curse your parents. You go to school and you can't bother to pay attention. You go to school and you reach home safely. Leaders wake up and they discuss plans to make money, fix roads and make Jamaica a better country yet each day people are killed as if it is nothing.The plans that need to be made are plans that will allow the citizens to feel safe we need to go out and let the wicked people in our country know they can't win we won't allow them to continue to destroy the beauty that is our country.
Have you ever been to a church service and when the singers are singing you feel nothing? You can hear the words coming out of their mouths but they have no conviction whatsoever? Music is one of the most important parts of church ministry and if God isn't in it, it shouldn't be called Gospel music to begin with. Some singers in church sing for self! They know they are blessed with beautiful voices so they use the church to showcase it but it isn't about ministry. It is simply to let people know what they have going on. They stand before you and they have blank expressions on their faces, while they sing such powerful lyrics. They aren't moved by it but they somehow expect that the congregation will be. The next issue is that of the modern day Gospel music. Call me old fashion but it isn't my flavour at all. Why should I have to be wondering whether I'm listening to Gospel or I'm at a dancehall event? Why does the church have to change itself to resemb...
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