Brian 'Head' Welch: Jesus' gospel does not work like 'fast-food'...it takes time

Christian rock star Brian "Head" Welch embraced the transgender community he's leading to Jesus and said God's work usually takes time as he chastised Christians critical of the gay people.

The 46-year-old guitarist, who recently re-joined the nu metal band Korn after eight years, said that Christians should not be quick to judge others because God's process of changing people's lives doesn't always happen in an instant.

"The gospel of Christ isn't like fast food," he wrote on Facebook on Tuesday. "Not everyone has an overnight dramatic conversion like mine. Often times the relationship with God takes hold many years or even a decade or more later."

Welch's comments came about in response to the attacks he's received from Christians after his post the other day, which clearly indicated his acceptance for transgender people.

He rebuked the "judgmental" and "hardhearted" Christians for chasing away transgender individuals by calling them out for Sodom and Gomorrah and for picking their sin of homosexuality. He asked instead for the Christians to open their hearts because God looks inside people's hearts. He added that it could take many years or decades before God's work in a person's heart materializes and that being judgmental and heartless toward these people would only lead them away from God.

"When you religious people try to force instant repentance and point out people's flaws, you are dismantling what God is trying to do inside of hearts," berated Welch.

The New York Times best-selling author, who released his book "With My Eyes Wide Open" in Australia on Wednesday, attended a rock concert in Mountain View, California on July 31.

A transgender man Welch met with at the event asked the guitarist if he loves transgender people.

"What do you think? Of course I do," answered Welch and then gave the man a big hug.

Welch credits Jesus for saving him from a life of drug addiction, alcoholism and self-hatred. He considers being a Christian rocker as God's plan for him.

"It's a special calling. Not everybody understands it, not everybody is called to that, but I am," Welch told The Christian Post in an interview.