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This website was founded to promote Reggae
Music. It was never intended to be a
"Christian Ministry". If it would be a
"Christian Ministry", sure there would
be a lot of wrongness, but this site promotes a
form of music that is obviously different then the
stuff you see on MTV. Regardless what the CCM
Industry and the workers of Babylon do with Reggae
Music in order to make it fit their wicked
schemes, true Roots Reggae will allways stand as
it is.
Yes, the Dubroom webmaster is a born again
Christian. And several expressions of this
spiritual identity can be found throughout the
website. Yes, the Dubroom webmaster even uses
parts of this website for his ministry!
This doesn't mean that the complete Dubroom
website is a
Christian website or "ministry", though.
A ministry is something you do for the Church. You
don't use your ministry to promote a certain
music. You use your ministry to do what Jah wants
you to do for His Church.
It's not possible to promote "Christian
Music" as a style or genre, for the simple
reason that Christianity is not a particular genre
either. So we can't look at the promotion of the
music on this site in the context of a
"ministry".
Reggae Music is not holy, it is not so that
every Reggae musician is a saint. It is not so
that Reggae Music allways speaks about truth and
right, freedom and equality. But the music should
not be seen as just another style of globally
popular music like Rap or Rock of which the fruits
are spoken of in this article.
One look on the history of Reggae Music
reveals, how Christians have allways been part of
the development of Reggae Music. In Pop and Rock,
you will allways see musicians changing their
musical ways when they become Christian. Of
course, because their Crowleyism has led them to
create these kind of music like Heavy Metal in the
first place. But in Reggae, this is not so.
The Dubroom is not a Christian website, but the
webmaster is a born again Christian. A born again
Christian who makes Reggae Music as well. In that
music, it is obvious that Yesus Kristos is the Way
the Truth and the Light. In the personal
meditations and reasonings by the webmaster, it is
also clear.
In the Dubroom reviews, there's a very large
collection of Reggae albums and musical tracks
created by people who are not neccesarily
Christian. They might even sing about their
opinnions which could be diametrically opposed to
the ones of the webmaster. But since the Dubroom
is not a Christian website, this is not the
standard according to which it is decided as to
whether or not a review should be placed. That
standard is Reggae Music itself.
How then can that be? The answer again, is
Reggae Music itself.
Sometimes the Dubroom receives e-mails from
people who think that given the Born Again
Christian identity of the webmaster, the site
should only carry music by people who are considered
to be Christian too.
But only when this website itself would be a
Christian website, then one could have a point.
And a big one, too! When this website would be
only presenting the works of Messian Dread, then
one would even have a bigger point!
However, since this website doesn't claim to be
Christian it should also not be seen as such.
Let's take a look at what the Bible says about
this.
The fifth chapter of 1 Corinthians describes a
very serious issue. There is something going on
the the Christian Church and it is incest. As the
apostle Paulus continues dealing with it, at a
certain moment he makes a certain comment which
may be of relevance in this. In the 12th verse, he
says:
For what have I to do to judge them also
that are without? do not ye judge them that are
within? But them that are without God judgeth.
The "within" and "without"
refers to the Church of Yesus Kristos. Those who
are born again, are "inside". That was
the reason, why the one who comitted incest had to
be, in the words of Paulus: "put away from
among yourselves".
Many people want to apply this very same
concept to websites, as if these websites are a
church. Maybe they do not realize it themselves, that's
quite possible. But Paulus clearly said that when
you are a born again Christian, when you are inside,
you shouldn't judge those that are outside.
And a website is not neccesarily a part of the Church.
A website is a work, and in this work talents are
expressed. The Church is the total sum of
all believers in Yesus Kristos. In the church, you
use your gifts, and outside the church you use
your talents.
If the Dubroom would start to review artist's
works as if they were expressions and teachings
within the Church, if the Dubroom would start to
judge artist's works according to their Christian
contents rather then the musical quality, then the
Dubroom would actually judge those that are
outside.
When this website would fully be reserved for
Biblical Teachings et cetera, in short when this
website would be a ministry, these artist's works
could indeed not have been reviewed. But then, we
would have to look at a Music Business as a
Christian Ministry which is an absurdity as a
Business cannot be a Ministry.
Now then, is it not so that by reviewing Reggae
artists that are not Christian, the message of
these artists is promoted too? This is a more
difficult question to answer fe true.
If the Dubroom would claim to be a Christian
website, then it would be obvious that the artists
presented on the website would have to bring one
particular message. But this is not the case. In
fact, there is not really a consequent spiritual
message to be found when all of the reviewed music
on the Dubroom is looked upon. The consequent
spiritual message can be found still, though. On
the many pages written by the Webmaster dealing
with every aspect of the Christian Faith, from
birth to eternity!
This is important to realize.
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