David Curran with Mac Brock
between seeing church as a platform versus totally checked out and not focused and that [WM] The concept that every person on
a stage. How do you balance coming back to could sound really bad. I think my job is to not the platform is leading worship can be really
your home church after a big tour or show, and differentiate between a two-hundred member revealing. What does this mean to you spiritually
is it ever hard to turn off the stage dimension? church or a Passion Conference, because I and/or musically?
think the goals are still the same. Obviously one
[David] I don’t know how to say this other has more production, but what is happening is [David] I think it’s a helpful reminder that you
than I feel like I always just, no matter what I’m kind of the same to me. So I see it as, if I’m in are just as important as the next person on
doing whether it’s a show or playing at a church, front of people I want to be the same person no stage. It’s another one of those things where if
I feel like my core role is still the same. I think matter if I’m at church or on tour. you start downplaying what you’re doing, that’s
in the most non-spiritual way every musician
where modesty becomes almost negative.
feels this way, and that’s that I just want to play It goes go back to what I was saying about Trying to be modest about what you do can be
music with the people on stage. Whether that’s professionalism, the same expectations I have the same as being cocky, because what you
worshiping in church, I’m still playing music on the road I also put on myself if I’m playing start to do is depressing what you actually can
with my friends on a stage. Or if I’m playing Sunday morning. No matter what, it’s the do. You tell yourself you can’t do something,
Laurens music, I’m still playing music with my same thing, you’ve been given an opportunity. the modesty starts depressing you to the point
friends on a stage. Are you asking how do No matter what songs or in what capacity, where you don’t realize how important you
you transition from a less spiritual stage into or production size and how big the stage is, are on stage. And the idea of everyone being
a more spiritual stage? I think no matter what, you’ve still been given the same thing, which a worship leader on stage is actually giving
no matter if I’m playing at Madison Square is an opportunity to play in a band in front of you authority to realize, “Oh, what I’m doing
Garden or if I come home on Sunday and I play people. Whether that is a congregation or an onstage is actually really important”. And it’s just
at a church for eight hundred or five hundred audience, you’ve still been given the same as important as the drummer, or the vocalist,
people, if I’m not listening on stage and I’m not thing, and I think if you treat every opportunity or the keys, and it puts everyone on the same
playing as a band it could still sound really bad. the same way… that’ll take you pretty far. level. I think it is a very helpful reminder that
I could be at Madison Square Garden and be
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what you do matters.
January 2019
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