of people that are singing these songs and talents for His glory. Thank you for your hearts ironically, is through honesty. So it feels like
being reminded of what it means to be alive. I and obedience”. this transcendent universal moment that is
have to express a sense of deep gratitude for
achieved by some form of confession where
the people who are singing along with us every That’s a pretty powerful testimony. Spiritual you start with your own broken state, and you
night. That for me is more than a monetary inheritance and replicating DNA looks a lot start singing about it. You think to yourself,
exchange. And I think that’s part of why we’re different to you guys that it does a traditional “No one’s ever felt this way, no one knows
still doing it, because we still… It feels like we worship team. Can you spell out what that what I’m talking about.” And you’re honest
still play these songs because hope deserves looks like from your perspective? and you sing it into a song and you realize
an anthem, and that’s why we’re doing it.
that tens, hundreds, thousands, whatever it
[Jon] I think first of all, those quotes like is, someone knows what you’re talking about
[WM] I found a pretty amazing quote on your the one you mentioned on Facebook, are so and that’s where the electric spark begins. I
Facebook feed... powerful and speak to the idea that there is think all of these songs… that my advice for
something much deeper than just three chords songwriting would be: Start with the darkness
“Your music has always been such a source and a couple lyrics that I wrote at three o’clock and aim for the light. Your job is to be honest,
of encouragement to me at very difficult times in the morning at play here. I think the reason God doesn’t need a lawyer (laughs). You look
in my life. I find myself right now in a hard why I play music is that the best moments back at David’s songs and they were just
season. God is so good to give us just the don’t have my fingerprints on them. That quote brutally honest, sometimes unresolved- angry,
encouragement we need to draw closer to Him and those moments are touching something frustrated, broken, and I feel like there’s a need
and find His way through the difficult parts of that is beyond us, that transcendent element for that more than ever right now- within the
this life. I am so looking forward to your new that music can sometimes express better than church, within the bar scene, within music in
album and am praying God’s love is spread words. To try and pass that on to someone general. That’s the question I have within every
because of your willingness to give Him your else, I think sometimes the only way there, song, do I believe it or not.
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