By Movieguide® Staff
Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch spoke out against people who might use their faith “as a weapon for division.”
“What if all of the judgmental Christian religious base are completely wrong in how they’re going about things?” he asked his followers in a recent Instagram video. “What if most of the political Christians are acting in the exact opposite character of how they should be? What if they’re getting it all wrong?”
Welch continued, “What if at the end of their life, and I hope this doesn’t happen, but what if they discover that all they did was use their faith as a weapon for division?”
The rocker then asked his followers to consider the fact that they “were given every single spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ…you’re given that as a gift, and the only reason you were given that is so God can be so good to you, and the only motive is to display the riches of His kindness towards you forever.”
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“What if he just wanted to lavish on you gift after gift after gift forever?” Welch continued. “And the gifts start in this life, and then when you walk through death’s door, you get the fullness of it. So what if you get a down payment now in this life?”
Welch concluded, “What if you were chosen for all of this?”
The Korn guitarist touched on the subject in an interview with ChurchLeaders, sharing, “[God] started breaking off religious mindsets and showing me that He wasn’t afraid to leave the perfection and holiness of heaven to come down to a very dark place with a lot of corruption.”
“He just was showing me, don’t be afraid to be a light and dark,” Welch continued, adding that God “revealed to me through myself, through my own heart, and then through people I trusted in leadership, that He never meant for me to never go back [to Korn]. He just meant it wasn’t the right time. He started to reveal through counsel that the time was now. And so that’s what led to [me rejoining Korn].”
In an interview with Ultimate Guitar, Welch spoke further about feeling called to rejoin Korn, saying, “I did it because I was just praying and I felt like God was, like…A lot of people, all they know is the horrible [version of] religion. There are mean street preachers outside of Korn concerts and a lot of fans just know that. Now what can I do to show love? And so I start opening up, and boom! I called them.”
“I realized that a whole new door opened and my whole life was changed,” he continued. “It was like I was given a second chance to be a rock star in a healthy way. [I’m] very grateful.”
Welch’s recent comments about rejecting division in Christianity are a reminder that faith should be something that brings us together — not drive us apart.
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