Wrong first time...sweetheart.
Never heard of her.
Her choice is Christ or this woman and she doesn’t want to make the choice. That’s true for any relationship outside of marriage.
Unfortunately, she’ll have a chorus of voices telling her that she doesn’t have to choose.
“I think it’s going to be shocking and feel like a betrayal to some people who live their spiritual lives through the music they listen to,” Knapp told the LGBT publication.”
Yep, them old eight track tapes are so..so...inspiring...they just bring tears to my eyes!!!!
She's right, of course. There are men in the churches who would like to run off with another woman, yet they don't. There are women who face comparable temptations. There are people who really want to steal, who really want to gossip or who are tempted to lie. I knew a Christian lady who was repeatedly tempted to go worship Krhishna (who she had served years before) yet she resisted the temptation.
Sin is pleasurable. For sexual temptations, scripture advises us to flee.
Wow. She has collaborated with the great Christian band Third Day. It is not clear from the article whether she is actually a practicing homosexual, or has lesbian inclinations. Remember that God is not willing that anyone should perish, and that homosexuality is not inherently worse than adultery, promiscuity, or other sins. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. I hope and pray she gets turned around.
I find it funny that she is on tour with a member of Caedmon’s Call. I expect Bebo Norman will be joining them shortly.
So, she wants to sell records to people who she knows will openly condemn this lifestyle, due to their beliefs and what the Bible says .... or is there a large gay Christian music audience I am not aware of?
This woman represents a larger problem with the contemporary Christian music industry. Too many are in it just for the money, prestige and the fame. They use Jesus and God as trappings to make money, the words they sing to others have no meaning to them personally.
Paraphrasing a few lines from a Steve Camp song called Ministry
“We once sang for Jesus without charging a dime, and we called in ministry. We weren’t ashamed of the gospel, we let our light shine, and we saw lives saved and set free.”
“While singing about God’s love, they are indulging their lust and they dare to call it ministry.”
“We don’t need stars in the body of Christ, but servants who live a holy life, yes we’ve all seen the famous revel in their sin, but we need to see holiness live out again.”
“An ambassador of Christ must be chosen and called to deny ourselves for the glory of God!”
Other than someone who has no choice but to be gay, such as Elana Kagen (search to see photo to find out why), most women who become gay just do it for fun...they really don’t care who they wind up with. And, in a lot of cases, it’s a political statement - that men are simply not needed in their lives.
Whereas most gay guys are simply sick.
April 16, 20100:12
A few words...
I share my life with a woman. I have approached this relationship with gratitude, joy and humility. I am honored to have the support of my loving family, a caring partner, friends and people of faith who have accepted me as I come, while encouraging me to become who I am meant to be. My loved ones - you have endured much, loved much and made full the lives of all those around you. I thank you as one who has been blessed by your generosity and gentle spirits.
In the abundant amount of private time I have been afforded to reflect, I have been deeply moved by the memory of rich experiences brought about through the intersection of faith and music. Generous fans, humble churches, believers, stumblers, seekers, the broken, the faithful and the faithless, alike, through the common thread of music we have found ourselves in the same spaces ignoble in our own humanity. Where I often begin, alone in sacred spaces, to plumb and pen the depth of my own person, music draws me out to the land of others. I discover that I am not alone, nor have I ever been.
As ever,
Jennifer
Try again little girl. You miss the boat some where.
Jennifer isn’t going to market herself as a Christian singer. She’s going more along the lines of a new-age spiritual genre. She’s not with a Christian recording label. Her first album, “Letting Go” will be a true test of how Knapp will be able to make it outside the industry.
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Knapp is very clear that she is not marketing herself as a Christian artist, a term with which she said she has never been comfortable. She’s no longer on a Christian-based record label, and her new album of folksy rock songs is described as being about “inner-conflicts, spirituality and life lessons.”
Knapp quit the industry and moved to Australia, she said, because she was simply exhausted by all the performing and unprepared for the challenges being a music star brought her way.
She said she began writing music again in earnest two years ago and the music, as well as the decision to go public with her sexuality, all happened “organically.” Knapp said she is no longer afraid of her gifts as a musician and now realizes that who she is as a private person can remain intact even as she shares herself with the world through her music.
“I was tired of not writing because I was afraid of what other people were going to think of me,” she said. “So for me it was a really healing process.”
Knapp said she realizes that some fans will now view her earlier work with lyrics about inner turmoil as evidence of the struggle between her beliefs and her sexuality. But she says she has always struggled as a person of faith to be the person she wants to be, and her sexuality was only a part of that, she said.
God has always known she would walk this path, Knapp said.
“I would rather be judged before God as being an honest human being,” she said. “If I am in any way unpleasing in his sight, I can only hope and pray that he gives me the opportunity to find who I am supposed to be.”
Perhaps the most telling clue to where Jennifer Knapp finds herself in life after so many years is contained in the title of her new album. It’s called “Letting Go.”
From the first time I heard Jennifer Knappshalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
I was reminded of Melissa Etheridge.
Matthew 7:5 people...
Funny, she doesn’t look happy.
5Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I [am] the LORD.
6None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover [their] nakedness: I [am] the LORD.
7The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she [is] thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
8The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it [is] thy father’s nakedness.
9The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, [whether she be] born at home, or born abroad, [even] their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.
10The nakedness of thy son’s daughter, or of thy daughter’s daughter, [even] their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs [is] thine own nakedness.
11The nakedness of thy father’s wife’s daughter, begotten of thy father, she [is] thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
12Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister: she [is] thy father’s near kinswoman.
13Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister: for she [is] thy mother’s near kinswoman.
14Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she [is] thine aunt.
15Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she [is] thy son’s wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
16Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it [is] thy brother’s nakedness.
17Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; [for] they [are] her near kinswomen: it [is] wickedness.
18Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex [her], to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life [time].
19Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.
20Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her.
21And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through [the fire] to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I [am] the LORD.
22Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it [is] abomination.
23Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it [is] confusion.
Leviticus Chapter 18, 5-23.
The Lord prohibits a lot of things, with good reason. And not just in the Old Testament:
26For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
-Romans 26-28
The fact is that the Lord called this particular sin an abomination. The reason it is a sin is that it puts man’s judgment about this particular matter above God’s, which makes it more grievous (most sins are often against other people- lying, stealing, etc.) God wanted us to be male and female- to live as He directed. It is more important to do God’s will than man’s.... Apostasy is the result of accomodating this evil....