Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Got the Life

"Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come." 2 Corinthians 5:17

Korn. The band I listened to during the darkest years of my life (which weren't that dark in retrospect). Jonathan with his bagpipes and kilt, Head with his long hair, Fieldy with...well his bass, guitarist Munky and former drummer David Silveria. I would write the band's and members name in whiteout on my black cloth trapperkeeper.


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Their dark, rebellious lyrics attempted to fill a void within me. I mainly listened to them because the people I hung around listened to them. I was a follower. Jonathan's angry, low-pitched, violent vocals were something I could latch onto.

When I became a Christian, I stopped listening to them, favoring bands like Zao, POD, Chrome Donuts and Stretch Armstrong.

In 2005, after 12 years of playing with the band, Brian "Head" Welch left. He left to follow Christ. In a radio interview with The Full Armor of God Broadcast Head explained his leaving, "I was walking one day, just doing my Rock and Roll thing making millions of bucks, you know success and everything, addicted to drugs and then the next day I had a revelation of Christ and I was like, everything changes right now."

A man that was addicted to alcohol, meth, xanax and other drugs; a man that was addicted to the world - to fortune and fame; a man that was completely broken, laid everything down to follow Christ.

Now, Head knows what his purpose is, "He put me on earth to have fellowship and intimacy with him. I am going to spend as much time as I can possibly spend getting to know Him...I don't want to waste any time, I've wasted enough time. That's what I am put on earth to do...let Him fill me with the Spirit so that He can do the work by bringing people into the Kingdom." (CBN)

I was taken by Head's brutal honesty of how he came to know Christ, view his testimony here:







A few months ago, I heard that Fieldy also turned his life over to Christ. What was happening? What IS happening to this band named Korn that I used to know? Christ was/is revealing himself to one of the biggest bands in nu rock.

In an interview, Fieldy said, "All you gotta know is what Jesus did for you...and if you ask him into your heart, it's for life. He is going to be with you forever." (CBN)

 





While Fieldy has stayed in the band and Head has stepped away, they are both ministering to the people who need it most, to the people who Christ himself ministered to: the unloved and those who are deemed unloveable. Their faith speaks volumes about Christ's love, forgiveness and grace. Nothing is too big, too bad, too abhorrent that Christ won't forgive you.

Easter Sunday, while sitting around a table talking to a few of my "in-laws" (cousins and aunt/uncle), we got on the topic of Christ's death. Not only that he died, but that he took every sin on himself. That he lived the sin and that God's cup of wrath was taken from us by Christ. Christ drank of the cup, the bitter, hot cup of infidelity and shame. Of murder and lust. Of sin. Of my sins.
Oh, the height and depth of mercy!
Oh, the length and breadth of love!
Oh, the fullness of redemption,
Pledge of endless life above!
So take the world, but give me Jesus.

5 comments :

  1. WOW Now this is a modern day miracle!! Satan you lose again!!!

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  3. Did you know my sister met Brian Welch? On CBN when they had their spiritual webcasts one evening. You should ask her about his response when she tried to get him to sing a bit! She didn't know what type of music he was into... :)

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    1. Do you think you could give her this link and have her post her story on here??? It would be very awesome so other people could read it too!

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  4. this is amazing. I love those lyrics...and the "bitter, hot cup" -- what a true image.

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