The Heidelberg Catechism and Hip Hop

I am presently preaching/teaching through the Heidelberg Catechism with the college group that meets at the University of South Alabama every week.  We go over three or four questions each time, using Kevin DeYoung's book, The Good News We Almost Forgot as our guide.  I feel that the study has been useful - at least I hope so. 

The document was written in the 17th century.  Simply communicating it's name always provokes a yawn or two.  Talking about an old document like this seems almost completely irrelevant to the culture of cell phones, sushi, facebook, and headphones. 

But there is something we must all try to understand.  Cobwebs often accompany profound communication.  In other words, old books that are present in a new day deserve a look - indeed, they demand a look.  Many of us have been lulled to sleep and need to be awakened by words moving with theological inertia.  And that is just what we have in the Heidelberg.

I belong to the typical Presbyterian white middle class.  We take these documents for granted.  We don't read them because we've read them.  Others don't read them because they simply don't know about them.  But once they do...watch out.  Place a catechism in the hands of those in the hood and you get nothing other than Heidelberg Hip Hop.  I absolutely love it.

Enjoy.

HERE IS THE LINK, again.