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New Hip-Hop Church Trades Pipe Organ for DJ

06/06/2014
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(Radio.com) A self-described "urban approach to ministry" takes hip-hop and puts it in the church. According to CBS Charlotte, a new congregation called GeneratiOne has opened its doors in Huntersville, N.C. The general Christian message is still the same, but there's a few flourishes: a DJ instead of an organ, the pastor's spoken-word delivery and zero traditional hymns.

The hip-hop church held its first service last weekend. CBS' WBTV was there to speak to the congregation's pastor, Quinn Rodgers, about the new venture.

"We're trying to reach the un-churched, the de-churched, the folks who have given up on church and are looking for something different," Rodgers told WBTV.

Altogether, the approach appears to have worked; in exit interviews, patrons called the songs "upbeat" and with "more flavor," perhaps owing to the church's hip-hop slant with a DJ and hip-hop scratching rather than older, more traditional material.

"We've taken the hip-hop culture and we've extracted all the negative connotations out of it and we've deposited solid Christian doctrine in there," Rodgers added. more on this story

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