Rev. Moss A Man For The Masses?

His appeal and influnce is growing more and more
everyday and his secret is in his rap or use of rap
lyrics. Rev. Otis Moss will take over the the pulpit
of Trinity United Church Of Christ in 2008. Read
the article below and get to know the charismatic
Rev Moss who is definetly a man of the future.


The Rev. Otis Moss III is striking in a raw way. Broad-faced, boyish and slender, the 36-year-old preacher looks more like a man who is consumed with fashion than the fate of sinners.

But when he steps into the large pulpit of Trinity United Church of Christ -- the South Side church that presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) calls home -- and begins to preach, all eyes are drawn to him.

"JE-sus is the one who puts the devil in his p-la-ce," Moss says, stretching "place" into three syllables. The choir standing behind him, more than 100 strong, seems to fade away. Moss holds a microphone in one hand and moves his free hand to the beat of his sermon. He seems incapable of uttering a dead sentence.

For the next hour, Moss rolls Scripture and hip-hop lyrics around in the same thoughts as he criticizes the mind-set of young black males who'd rather play basketball than learn physics. He goes after Bush administration policies, the war in Iraq and the United States' free-market economy.

Such talk in any of the white churches across town would make the congregation squirm. Not so at Trinity, where the words are met with exuberant clapping, standing ovations and loud exclamations of "Yes, pastor!"

Named one of the "Twenty to Watch" ministers under 40 by the African American Pulpit magazine and one of the most influential African American religious leaders by the Web site Beliefnet.com, Moss was handpicked by Trinity's senior pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., to succeed him in 2008 because of Moss's growing reputation in reaching inner-city youths.





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