Kirk Franklin, a well-known American gospel singer and record producer, has stated that Western Christianity has perverted ideas of marriage, giving, and sexuality into instruments of control.
The “Just For Me” hitmaker claimed during his appearance on the “Funky Friday” podcast that the misinterpretation of these essential ideas has caused many people to follow human ideologies under the false impression that they are behaving in line with heavenly purposes.
Franklin expressed his worry that some young people are not being allowed to serve in church ministry because of their marital status.He also underlined how important a part families play in the way marriage is weaponised in society.
“I believe that marriage, giving and sexuality have been weaponised in Western Christianity. Any woman listening to this can attest in our culture: ‘Don’t be no 30, 35 single black woman and go to the family reunion.’ All the older women are going to look at you and be like, ‘Why are you not married?’’
“It’s like a prerequisite for identity and value. If you don’t have a man or kids, then something about you is broken. Do you understand how dysfunctional these messages are and how we superficialise these messages?” he questioned.
“[Apostle] Paul said that marriage is a necessary distraction. I have many friends that were in ministries in church, and the churches told them, ‘If you’re going to be in ministry, you can’t be single.’ So what people do is that they quickly get married thinking that they’re fulfilling God’s will for their lives but they’re fulfilling man’s dogma.
“You can be single and be used by God. You can be single and have purpose. Being married is not a prerequisite for God’s hand in your life. It’s not. But we’ve weaponised it. And they crucify people when those same marriages failed,” he added.
