Recording artist Katie Perry is an interesting, if somewhat tragic, figure in today’s popular culture. Best-known for her risque hits like Ur So Gay and I Kissed a Girl, Perry is thought of by many as a quite worldly figure, caught up in trading on her looks for fame.
Yet according to the biographical information on her, she is the daughter of a deeply committed Christian family – both of her parents are pastors. She was raised listening only to gospel and contemporary Christian music. Her first musical attempts were as part of just such a band.
So how did a girl raised in a way many believers would consider “with all the right influences” stray into trading on her sexuality, composing songs known for their outrageous and worldly descriptions of sinful behavior?
Well, who knows the specifics of her circumstances, beyond her and God? However, I’d suggest that one thing believers tend to over-focus on is the externals and not the root causes.
Katie Elizabeth Hudson (her real name) is just famous, but the same sort of thing happens to the children of many Christian parents; even more so children of those in the ministry.
I suspect part of the culprit here is the moral relativism rife in the church. If one raises their children to listen only to spiritual artists, but also preaches grace grace grace, where’s the self-discipline that will help them make the right decisions once they grow up and live on their own?
Grace must be balanced by self-discipline… a desire to live a life showing gratitude toward the creator by not making the choices of sin that cause a holy God to distance himself from us, or the narcissism to believe that it’s OK to sin today, because we can always repent tomorrow… Someday, for all of us, tomorrow never comes.
Hopefully Katie Elizabath Hudson will realize that before Katie Perry is all that remains.
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In most circumstances the children are so over exposed and maybe even expected to fall into that kind of life, that they feel a need to deviate from it to truly feel they are in charge of their own lives.
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