Kirk Franklin

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, so guys, Kirk Franklin is trending. After his
recent interview on Cam Newton's podcast, Kirk said Western Christians
should stop weaponizing marriage and being single. Take a listen
to what he had to say.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Don't be no thirty thirty five year old single black
woman and go to the fen reunion. All the older
women are gonna do nothing. They're gonna look at you
in wonder why you got married.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Where your man is, where your kids, said like.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's a prerequisite for identity and value. That if you
don't have a man, if you don't have kids, that
something about you is broken. So you understand how disfunctional
these messages are and how we super spiritualize these messages.
Paul said the marriage is a necessary distraction.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Kirk had more to say.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
They quickly get married thinking that they're fulfilling God's will
for their lives, but they are fulfilling Man's dogma. You
can be single and be used by God and be
single and have purpose. Being married is not a prerequisite
for God's hand on your life.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
It is not preach Kurt Man. Kirk, Yes, well, you
know something, I agree with that, and I think that's
what happens to a lot of women. And I want
to say something, Look to a lot of single women
out there. You know, Kirk said something, He said, you

(01:28):
can have a purpose? You know, has it ever occurred
to us? Sometimes sometimes people are on a different path.
Just because you picked the path to go down, don't
mean that's the path that that person has to go down.
You can have a purpose in your life and be single.
Sometimes that's the path you have to go down. There

(01:49):
are a lot of really really great single women out
there who have incredible lives and an incredible purpose and
career and still single. It don't mean that that has
not been office for her not to be single. She

(02:09):
just didn't want to make that bad choice, you know,
just because you know it's a lot of women could
be off the market, but off the market with who
if he ain't the right one? What you going down
that alley for? Right? I know that myself, So yeah, exactly,
you know, I mean, And and God uses single people.

(02:31):
God has used prostitutes. God has used murderers. God has
used adulterous God has used liars, stutterers. Everything He done
use all kinds of people and everybody. He used society
says something's wrong with him. So he's absolutely right. If

(02:56):
you go to the U thirty thirty five, you ain't
got nobody. Well, you know, you know how many times
we've made a mistake with the wrong person in your
thirties in the I mean miserable people in the family
that's over there talking about you ain't got they stuff together?

(03:17):
Right over I ain't got they stuff together. Yeah, And
it's sitting under the tree at the family reunion, the
four Kims four baby daddy talking about she ain't got
no kids, don't nobody want her? Now, maybe she made
some better decisions, you know. But what I found out,

(03:42):
most people that's pointing got to look at them three fingers,
that's at that's pointing at them while they sticking their
index finger out at you, because that's always the case.
So you know, I say that, but I agree with
what Kirk saying. You know, it's kind of crazy.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, stop doing.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
It, because I'm gonna be honest with you. The first
time I got married, you know, I was going to
church on the regular and that was a big part
of it. And one of the messages was it is
better to marry than to burn. That was a big
message at our church, and we were encouraged to marry.

(04:22):
If we was dating these girls at this church, we
were encouraged to get married. I can't tell you all
the marriages is gone. You just want to burn burn me, bruh. Yeah,
I got married and did burn.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Okay, So thank you Kirk for that word. All right,
coming up next to Nephew and the Frank phone call
for today. Right after this, you're listening Morning Show