It seems that “buzz” does not begin to adequately describe what has been generated by the profession of faith in Christ from Kanye West. But what I have found a bit perplexing are the questions from some as to whether or not someone like him could actually be genuinely born again.
Mind you, I do not know his heart more than anyone else’s heart. His heart is not the point on that question; God’s heart is the point.
Second Peter 3:9 says that the Lord is “not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” When he says all, he genuinely means it. Christ died for a rapper named Kanye just as surely as he died for a guy named Bo Wagner who was raised his entire life going to church three times a week at bare minimum. As I have said many times, there is no more level ground to be found anywhere in the universe than the ground at the foot of the cross.
It is not the convert that is impressive, no matter who the convert is. It is the converter who is so impressive.
Having pastored for more than 22 years and done evangelism for even longer than that, I can tell you that Jesus specializes in saving the “most lost” of people. In my church alone I have faithful men with whom my first contact was taking the loaded gun out of their drunken, angry hands, former addicts who are now clear-headed and clear-hearted, and women who are faithful to God and husband after having spent years building a reputation like that of Rahab.