Long awaited,

As the arranger and the singer of this song I can tell you the intent is not at all to attract young people. The person doing the rap part is one of the Canadian born kids in my church. I believe he was 19 when he did this song a couple of years back. We just decided to collaborate and I brought my ambasel and he brought his rap and did this together. In fact, my personal intent is to bridge the huge generational and cultural gap between the first and second generation immigrants mainly within the Pente church.

But, I hear ya on your complain about the hypocricy in the church. I admit that the church is overdue for some serious clean up…

In repsonse to Pentew: I hate to disagree with you but I do not’t believe in the whole ” we are chiristians therefore have higher moral standards speech.” As far as I am concerned you as a person, should have your own morals, and principles, reagrdless of your religion. But hear me out, I’m not refuting the fact that religion does some how contribute to good behaviours. However, what I am trying to say is that being a Pente doesn’t make ppl better that the other. To say the least, I am yet to meet a person that identifies themselvees as a “christian”a.k.a Pente…who is not a hyprocite….somewhere…somehow….they always seem to prve me right!

So…I suggest that we focus on educating the youth…instead of trying to solicit them into a religious cult! After all…if being a pente is the door to heaven…why bother soliciting ppl through hip-hop and so forth…last time I checked…religious sommunities were only concenrned at teaching, and preaching the word of G-d….whether they were muslim, jews….christians or watever….and they still keep on attracting the “lost Youth”……

Why is it that we are all so quick to say something negative about other religion when we don’t even have enough faith in what we believe. I feel like sometimes people look at others that are religous and look at them as a treat to their own faith so they try to manipulate as much as they can. Regligon is personal who are we to judge otheres believe. The first and the most importand thing the bible teaches us is not to be judgmental so we should love one another and practice what the Bible teaches us. As for the Mezmur and Hip Hop we are to praize our Lord in anyway possible, if the way others praise the Lord does not feel right for you then praise him the way you want to praise him but as for others stay out of their way. Let the Lord almighty be the judge of that.

I think its right. Religous recruitment is becoming like a competition amongst religons .Its not anymore about serving God ,its about who has the most congrigation .And belive it or not people make a lot of money out of this .There was a documentray by CNN on this a while back .It really showed the consumer produces in relation to the expandign christainity .Try to google how much money Binni Hin or Joyce Mayor or T.D Jakes are making over religon .

Another issue is no matter how we try to diffrentiate between belif and religon as an institutions ,I think any belief will turn in to a religon when it creats a certain structure to manage the group .

We are debating about religon here but some one can question the existance of God ,where any religon is based on .So if that’s questionable wouldn’t it be more viable for us to follow a religon that goes with our traditon and culture ?

I agree with the idea that Penteism or any similar religon is a mind control system that is aimed at spreading neo colonialism .

I think People these days are getting mezmur and hiphop thesedays.It’s okay to do a christion rap but Hiphop is way beyond just music it is a culture/religion.
I didn’t know this either, I just found out a few weeks ago.
don’t get it twisted people!!
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Why can’t we separate the message from the messenger? Is there any evil in the message: “believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved” (Acts 16.31)Guys it is all about the LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST! And practice it as you wish. Don’t impose traditions, practices, styles, opinions etc. I think some of you wrote excellent words and some of you base stuff. And somebody said “it is brainwhashing”. Think again Is the love of Jesus and proclaiming his Gospel which is YEMISRACH brainwashing? I don’t think Jesus died and rose again to brainwash people but to give life to others like you and me. Praises to him for ever!

I wonder when most Ethiopians are going to wake up from this ignorant notion that people that choose to be Protestant (Pente) are just plain fools that can be easily brainwashed by some church leader. Sad to see very childish comments like this from someone that is educated and has the skills to see/think outside the box. Every thought process has a choice and we can choose to be narrow minded and ignorant. And it is very simplistic to blame the Hip/hop Mezmure for the mass exodus of the youngsters to the Protestant church.

I like it

Check out exministries.com if you want the real story behind hip hop. Jesus and hip hop don’t mix. Hip hop is a religion just like islam and budism. Find out the REAL TRUTH behind hiphop. Go to exministries.com

Hey Brother did you know the word Wisdom, I think you need one of them. before saying something you should study and do your homework before saying what you don’t know. I will pray for you that God will give you Wisdom and Understanding Who is God is.

ere begzaer aygebam.

nice collab! dinich, I hear u’re behind this? hats off to ya… sounds so fresh and so clean …

its fixed now…

getting errors… couldn’t listen

Awesome, man

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I am surprised that people still think that the Yared Mezmur is original to Christianity. Yes, it is older than Hip Hop but never ever think that it is original to Christianity, it was born somewhere down the road.

If we all take off our religious glasses, it should be so obvious that in order to be relevant, the church needs to be able to speak in the language of the people. That is what this song does and it is a brilliant creation. Here is what the writer of this song said on his website http://amelkhalehu.com

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This song is a mix of AMBASEL and Rap. AMBASEL is a traditional Ethiopian key unique to Ethiopian music. Rap is modern western style of music. That is a strange mix. Ebenezer, who did the rap, is half my age. That again is another strange mix. Yes, we have very different styles and backgrounds but what is more important is that we have one purpose, one love, one Spirit and one God. Our message especially to all the Abesha Christians in diaspora is that it is about time that we all learn to love one another and respect our differences as we are raising a new generation that may not conform to our cultural standards.

To the younger generation we say: Don’t ever think that you are better just because you are the new generation. The old was new and the new will be old. To the older generation we say: Don’t promote your tradition at the expense of love.

We are all the same no matter how different.
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I was search for amharic military cadence and this post came up… Meto aleka if you are around do you know where I could get the cadence music

lol u guys take things to personal i love the very idea of makin the most borin thing exciting the lord says to love and praise him and be joyful doing so not bore your self to death lol i like that sng good article nolawi

Well, let’s take this discussion one step further and take a look at the original meaning of the word “recruit”…

The word recruit is a derivative of the Greek word
ROC-TOE-OMINOS. Which means, divulging or revealing…just kidding, I am just making things up…I barely speak English, let alone be an English historian

In any case, I am one of those guys that people would label as ‘Pente’. I honestly don’t think that I am an involuntary participant of the movement. I believe I am capable of thinking for myself, and making decisions for myself.

You may laugh at me when I say this, but when God calls you into his Kingdom, you will know it, you will feel it, you will live it, and YOU WILL PASSIONATELY FOLLOW IT. It is a spiritual thing! Follow Not some “missionary”, but the actual Word of God. The missionary, pastor, Kes (Qes as you degas spell it), or whatever you name it, is just the conduit.

As the famous mathematician Pascal once said “human knowledge needs to be understood in order to be loved, but divine knowledge needs to be loved in order to be understood!”…Amen to that! You really have to love the doctrine before you can understand the intent of the movement.

I believe (this is a pure speculation on my part as I have no real supporting facts behind my viewpoint), the main concern that people have is that, someone would end up getting financially rich of off his/her followers’ pockets. Does that happen – yes. Should one be too overly concerned about human shortcomings and never take the time to follow a spiritual self awareness – NO!

The passion that we have for the movement is no different than the passion you may have for this website. Assuming you are one of the creators of the website, I would assume (my apologies for speaking on your behalf) that you would want to see more hits today than you got yesterday; you probably would want to sell more t-shirts today, than you did yesterday. Why? Not necessarily to make more money today than you did yesterday (I hope not), rather, because it would mean to YOU that you have more people that are accepting your creative mind today, than you had yesterday.

You are not just producing the same old “konjo lig”, “ye DC lig”, “Ethiopia Agare”…blah, blah, blah…you are producing an original concept to attract a “different” crowd. But you know what, if you take away the “Addis Ababa Classic” piece, what’s underneath is just a t-shirt.

In the case of the “Pente” (truly the Evangelical church), you are creating an original style to spread the Word of God and in the process, attract those that were not touched by the original teaching. But you know what, if you take away the shouting, and the crying, and the loud noise, what’s underneath it is just Worshipping God!

BTW, military recruitment is not totally voluntary. I know that – after all, I am the “Meto Aleka” that has been stuck in this dead end job for the last Twenty Fiiiiiiive years!I should never have signed on those dotted lines. As Nancy Karrigan once said “Why!?”…”Why!?”…Why!?”

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you recruit to make them volunterly accept…

why are there so many missionaries through out african villages… they are trying to promote and expand the following of the particular religion…

you recruit soldeirs the same as your recruit followers and preists…

google religious recruitment kefelekh…

yes i am from dega…

Nice – I like the ‘buff’ to the ‘bluff’ rebuttal – for real!

To me, the word ‘recruitment’ implies an involuntary (or perhaps a semi-voluntary) participation.

You “recruit” soldiers

But when you “evangelize”, you are “teaching” people the rules of the Christian doctrine. As the result, they may end up becoming “followers” of the rule (voluntarily I might add.) Quite frankly, when you take away all the “presentation fluff”, there is very little difference between the various Christian doctrines.

Meto Aleka saaaaaaaaays! Gera, Kegn… Gera, Kegn… Gera, Kegn… Gera, Kegn……

BTW, you misspelled my name. It is Aleka, not Aleqa (you must be from Dega, we do it differently up here in Weyna Dega…ahahah…just kidding… peace out!)

you know meto aleqa, i know for 9.99 i could be an amharic bluff, but i disagree

I disagree to the claim that recruitment in religious inistitutions doesnt happen… it does happen.

I think you guys need to check out this web site
http://jga.misirach.org/

I am no expert on the matter, but there seems to be a misconception regarding this particular faith.

First of, it is ‘Evangelical’ and not ‘Pentecostal’. There is a slight difference between the two doctrines.

Secondly, you don’t “recruit” people to accept the Lord; as the name implies, you “evangelize” or preach the gospel to people so they will accept the Lord as their savior.

Mat 28:19
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

Mat 28:20
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, [even] unto the end of the world. Amen.

Anyone who is an expert on the matter, please feel free to correct me.

Shi – Shimbera
Ku – Kuli
Ge – Gembo

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