Beautiful Feet

Disclaimer: If you have not read my first post, please go down. I'm posting this right after posting my initial blog post, and that has more information.
Another Disclaimer: Don't listen to this if you don't like rap (even though it's CHRISTIAN rap!)

This song, along with Romans 10: 14-15 (where a lot of the inspiration for this song came from), was the inspiration for the theme of my blog, and my mission for this summer. It's a rap by a Christian artist who grew up as an inner city kid. It consists of true stories about inner city kids he knows, and then goes on to quote scripture and explain that these communities need Christ, and they need people to preach it to them. He says that the feet ARE beautiful, if only they will go.
If you don't like rap and just want to read the lyrics, they're below the video.




Carlos was born in killa Cali,
Was walking down an alley and caught a bullet in his head that left him bleeding badly.
He lost everything at that moment except his life
He lost his hearing lost his movement and he lost his sight
He laid there in a coma
But man, nobody cared
The Gospel preached in his neighborhood? Nobody dared
But 'los got up out the coma got and was able to hear
A missionary shared the gospel to his open ears
He got saved, got trained, got discipled
Back to hood
You could find him preaching the bible
He led a homie to Christ from his same hood
Part of Church plant
Come on now ain't his name good
This is blessing but I'm stressing that this is not the norm'
We need leaders and believers to help carry it on
But who would minister in a sinister part of town
I pray if Jesus is calling you that you would be found

Eric used to go to Bible study as a kid
He got older and started doing what the hood did
A rival gang caught him slippin' tried to take his life
But the gun jammed up so them beat him nice
He woke up in the hospital singing Bible songs
Praise God he had a place to learn the Bible from
But then he gets saved and wanna preach Christ they make him change his whole culture and way of life
He gotta get him a bachelors wear a suit and tie
Go to seminary
By then all of his boys will die
Jesus came to invade culture outta Nazareth and used a couple fisherman who people saw as hazardous
The feet are beautiful if only they'd go
If ain't nobody in hood preaching how will they know?
Eric is better used taught trues in his context
Somebody please plant a church in his projects.

In Luke 4:16 on down to 21 Jesus says he's messiah says he's the chosen one
But more than that he quotes Isaiah
That shows our savior targets oppressed, captive, blind, and the broke I'm saying
Had a heart for the poor, had a heart for the low
And 1st John 2:6 is the way we should go
In Deuteronomy even though they under the law
The tithes every third year, the poor got 'em all
I ain't sayin' you wrong if you live in 'burbs
I'm sayin' turn your attention to the hood 'cause we hurting
Man' if you ain't burdened please pick up your word and
Though this world is going down while we here we can serve Him
We bring this to the streets because we knew the streets
I pray that more would be burdened to have beautiful feet
You never knew the streets but truth is what you preach
I pray to God you'd be burdened for beautiful feet.
Go, go, go (run with those beautiful feet)
Go, go, go
You hold the truth that saves so run and shout it to the world
They can't believe in something they ain't never heard
Go, go, go and run with those beautiful feet