A few hours after award-winning Christian music artist Forrest Frank called out worship singer Cory Asbury for “making fun of his trauma,” Asbury apologized for his post.
“Let me take this opportunity to say I apologize, man,” Asbury posted on Instagram. “I never meant to poke fun at anything that you were going through.”
Asbury has since taken down his original video, but Frank posted it in a stitch before commenting his personal thoughts. In the original video, Asbury shares with his fans that he recently left the hospital following a vasectomy.
“We didn’t plan this, but you know, my boy Forrest, he turned lemons into lemonade. I figured I still got use of my hands. I can still make music,” Asbury says. “I’m sitting here and decided to cook this song up and hope it encourages y’all.”
Asbury then shared a song that references his medical procedure.
“Snip, snip season but we stay winning souls/ Spread the gospel not my seed” are the lyrics he shared.
Asbury was referencing the process of making a song similar to Frank as he healed from a back fracture during a terrifying skateboarding accident.
A few days into his healing, Frank revealed that he wrote a song inspired by his injury. He teased the song, saying the outro was the most encouraging:
“I won’t fear no past/
My path, I’ll just keep moving straight ‘cause God’s got my back/
Even when I fall or get attacked/ ‘cause God’s got my back.”
The track, titled “God’s Got My Back,” was released on July 28, 2025.
However, Frank did not appreciate Asbury’s song. He told his followers that it’s one of at least a dozen posts that he’s seen from other Christian artists who are making fun of one of the most traumatic moments in his life.
“I can totally understand the fact that you guys are just having fun. You’re probably not even thinking that I’m going to see it,” says Frank. “I’ll just say this. To everybody who’s making these videos, I’m not telling you to stop. But this raises a really interesting conversation with social media because there’s no seatbelt on social media.”
Frank then shared lyrics to a song that he wrote to Asbury titled “Misunderstood” in response to what he feels is mockery in his healing journey:
“Sometimes words hit you in the chest/
Sting you like a bee/And rob you of your rest.”
And heaven knows sometimes/ People try to mean well
But trauma from their past got em’ stuck inside of hell.”
He ended the song with lyrics about how if Jesus forgave the people who nailed him to a Cross, then Frank could also forgive people who mock him, too.
Before Frank played the song, he told Asbury that he knows that he is also a deep songwriter. Frank invited him to write a song with him on a “bigger topic that could be really productive to talk about” if he’s willing to play ball.