Hidden in plain sight: songs you didn’t know were about Christianity

During a jam session, inspiration hits Lenny Kravitz. He grabs a brown paper sack and works on the lyrics to Are You Gonna Go My Way. “The song is about Jesus Christ, who Kravitz refers to as “the ultimate rock star”. The lyrics were meant to sound as if they were coming from the mouth of Jesus Christ.” 

I usually take issue with authors putting words in Jesus’s mouth. Anne Rice wrote Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt(2005) which depicts the life of Jesus Christ at the age of 7 to 8. Rice wrote the novel after returning to the Catholic Church in 1998. Written from Jesus’s prospective. I’ve not been willing to read her book for that reason. But have talked to other Christian’s that have; who said it was a good read. If I can jam to Kravitz, maybe I will give the book an honest try. 

Picture this, you have drums beating in the back ground, bass and guitar shredding, Jesus is walking on the shore of the Sea of Galilee and asks Simon Peter and Andrew (Matthew 4: 18-22) ‘Are You Gonna Go My Way? He does the same to Matthew (Matthew 9:9-13) he asks, ‘Are You Gonna Go My Way’? They drop everything and ‘go his way’. Jesus just wants to know, Are You Gonna Go My Way? Are you gonna be like Simon Peter, Andrew and Matthew? Or are you gonna be like the young man in Matthew 19: 16 – 22, when Jesus asks ‘Are You Gonna Go My Way’? You turn away sad; unwilling to give up what you think you have for a life in Christ?

Link to the song below.

Lenny Kravitz – Are You Gonna Go My Way

Verse 1]

I was born long ago

I am the chosen, I’m the one

I have come to save the day

And I won’t leave until I’m done

So that’s why you’ve got to try

You got to breathe and have some fun

Though I’m not paid, I play this game

And I won’t stop until I’m done

[Chorus]

But what I really want to know is

Are you going to go my way?

And I got to, got to know

[Verse 2]

I don’t know why we always cry

This we must leave and get undone

We must engage and rearrange

And turn this planet back to one

So tell me why we got to die

And kill each other one by one

We’ve got to hug and rub-a-dub

We’ve got to dance and be in love

[Chorus]

But what I really want to know is

Are you going to go my way?

And I got to, got to know

[Outro]

Are you going to go my way?

Because baby I got to know, yeah

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