Christian singer-songwriter Forrest Frank knows speaking up could cost him followers, but he has a bigger concern: what happens inside the family.
“If we lose the family, we lose everything,” he said in an Instagram video posted Nov. 4.
Frank opened the reel by acknowledging that he generally tries to stay out of politics. Following the midterm elections, he said, social-media posts about gender and abortion prompted him to respond, and he directed his message toward believers and their responsibilities at home.
“Do not mess around with God. Do not mess around with the family,” he said.
Frank pointed listeners to Scripture, recalling the Old Testament’s closing passage about the hearts of parents and children turning toward one another.
That passage, Malachi 4:5–6, connects Elijah’s coming with restored relationships between generations and closes with a warning of judgment. Frank used it to underline the seriousness of family life, not simply the temperature of an online argument.
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Then he gave his audience something to do beyond scrolling through the next round of posts.
“Pray, discern, read your word, hold your family tight, lead your family,” he urged.
For Frank, the connection between faith and the next generation reaches beyond this reel. In a separate GRAMMY.com interview ahead of the 2025 awards, he described how becoming a father helped him think differently about his name, his music and the spiritual inheritance he hoped to pass along.
He pointed to two details on his album CHILD OF GOD: his grandfather appears in its introduction, and his son appears on its cover. He connected those choices to the responsibility of carrying faith from one generation to the next. Elsewhere in that interview, he described wanting to make Christian music young people could choose as a baseball walk-up song or play while hanging out with friends.
The same interview offered a practical example of slowing down. Frank recalled that he and his wife kept declining performance offers they didn’t feel right about accepting, even when the money looked attractive.
During that quieter stretch, they welcomed a baby without commitments on the calendar that they needed to cancel, he said. He also began writing Christian songs, though he said he hadn’t expected the move from pop music to bring commercial success.
That earlier account gives his latest appeal a personal backdrop. He had already described faith, new parenthood and a slower working life as part of the same season, rather than treating his family and his music as entirely separate stories.
Still, Frank didn’t end his new video on a warning. He paired the call to take responsibility with a reminder that believers don’t have to mistake a troubling feed for the final word: “…be encouraged because God is the victor. He wins, and at the end of the day, every knee will bow.”
His closing words echo Philippians 2:9–11, which describes every knee bowing at Jesus’ name and every tongue acknowledging Him as Lord. The encouragement brought his appeal back to faith: pray, stay rooted in Scripture and lead the people closest to you.
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