Posted on 05/30/2019 12:14:10 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Alice Cooper became a Christian late in life but decided not to leave the world of hard rock because, he says, it's part of his testimony.
In a short video clip of Pastor Greg Laurie's interview with Cooper, the rocker explains why he's still a member of Hollywood Vampires alongside Johnny Depp and Aerosmith's Joe Perry and has maintained his trademark look while performing songs such as his latest, "The Boogeyman Surprise."
Cooper admitted that he once contemplated changing his name after he came to faith in Christ but his pastor advised him not to.
"'Look where He (God) put you. What if you're Alice Cooper but now you're following Christ. You're a rock star but you don't live the rock life. Your lifestyle is now your testimony,’" he recounted his pastor telling him.
During the interview, Cooper revealed how much his faith in Christ has changed his life and impacted his music career. While sex, drugs and alcohol were once his stage motto earlier in his career, he has since replaced those terms with new material.
"One of my albums, The Last Temptation, was being sold in Christian bookstores and my record company couldn't figure out why. It was saying, 'Hey, if you want what the world has to offer you, that's all you're going to get'," Cooper stressed.
The 71-year-old also testified to how Jesus saved him from his sinful life, including an addiction to cocaine. Now he's committed to helping his peers and said he even gave a Bible to self-professed satanist Marilyn Manson.
"They respect you because you're you. You have this platform to reach people. People will listen to a guy like you," said Laurie, the senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California.
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If Alice Cooper is really a Christian, why does he still perform as “Alice Cooper?” In this video, he gives the answer. pic.twitter.com/nuHeZX3ms5
— Greg Laurie (@greglaurie) May 22, 2019
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Cooper and his wife, Sheryl Goddard, attend Camelback Bible Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona.
But despite his profession of faith, the Detroit native stressed in a past interview that he's not a theologian or any kind of expert on Christianity, so he doesn't want people to looking to him for answers.
"It's really easy to focus on Alice Cooper and not on Christ," he said in a 2014 interview with Hard Music magazine. "I'm a rock singer. I'm nothing more than that. I'm not a philosopher. I consider myself low on the totem pole of knowledgeable Christians. So don't look for answers from me."
I loved his part in Wayne’s World.
Alice Cooper...hard rock? Yeah, no.
Also a long time friend of PDJT and member of his golf foursome.
He did a wonderful endorsement/interview on F& Friends shortly after the ride down the esculator. He used words like generous, kind, caring, fun to describe our President.
Odd take away.
18 is kinda hard. His song poison is a little too.
Unless we are comparing it to metal. :)
What do you think he falls under?
Just plain old rock?
It’s so hard because the early Beatles fall under that too.
Rockers, porn stars, abortionists, serial killers. But not Mitt Romney....
(Do I need to append a /sarc tag to this?)
1 John 2:15-17 (AV):
"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.The leader of Saddleback neeeds to brush up on his basic Christian doctrine when he qualifies people for membership, IMHO.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever."
My first encounter with Alice Cooper was in March, 1972, and I maintain to this day it was the best live rock performance my ears have ever witnessed.
That was the “Under My Wheels” and “Be My Lover” era, and the sound generated by his band back then was enough to take your breath away.
He later “grew” into “Only Women Bleed”, and that kind of crap.
By 1974, I think creatively, Cooper was done. The best work was prior, including Billion Dollar Babies album, KIller and prior work.
I’ve liked Alice Cooper since he came on the scene. Don’t ask me why. I’m 73 years old.
This is quite a surprise to me. For the last several years the ONLY mention I had heard was when he said something about politics. And occasionally he tried to “clarify” what he said/meant. But in these however many years I have not heard that he said something like, “Thank God that He has delivered me from that life/existence that I had ...... “
This is very good to hear. I certainly hope he is a true brother in Christ. (and it would be nice if he got a haircut and ..... /LoL
I don’t know a lot about him.
I was a teen in the glam rock 80s, but I liked Deep Purple and Zep, etc.
I need to look up some songs by him.
Are those two you mention songs or albums? Thanks
I’m not quite seeing your point. What exactly do you think Alice Cooper needs to do to qualify for “membership”?
If you’re truly in Christ and Born Again, you disposition should have changed. You’re a new man in Christ. All worldly pleasure is no more. My whole life changed, I despise sin.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Kin
IIRC, he played a round or two of golf with RC Sproul, too. Somewhere there is a video clip of RC talking about their interaction.
Ping
Both were songs off the lp “Killer.”
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