takes a few hours to help someone understand [Joshua] One of the misconceptions that I freedom, we’re actually very aware of what’s
a scale, and from there it’s pretty easy to hear a lot out there is that we are all experiential going on around us and our surroundings. We
adapt that to the chordal scale, and then to and not biblical. I want to say that the leadership, never let our freedom get to a place where
the number system after that. It’s really just a students, members, and community of this we are completely out of control, or wild, or
shorthand system to describe the major scale. house all love the Bible! We base all of our anything like that. We just want to experience
We try to not make it too complicated, and we experiential desires off of things that we read the joy and freedom that comes with knowing
let people know that the boundaries of using about in the Bible. If you really dig to the heart God. Sometimes that may look like dancing, or
the Nashville Numbers system are very limited. of it, we’re just asking God to show us once something more uninhibited than people have
If you’re playing complicated Gospel music, again what He was already showing His people been accustomed to, but we believe that is just
or even Jazz or Blues, things other than Pop, in the Bible. All throughout the gospels and the a natural and healthy expression of freedom.
styles that use other modes and non-diatonic book of Acts, we see people getting healed, notes, then the number system won’t work and the miracles of Jesus and the apostles and [WM] So you believe in having ‘David’
as well. We let people know that the number disciples. We really do love the Bible and are moments?
system will only work really well within a song crazy enough to believe it for our own lives and that uses a major scale, and stays within that believe that we can do those things too.
scale.
[Joshua] Well, we do have a clothing policy!
(laughs)
Another misconception I’d like to address is
[WM] In closing, what are some of the things that because we have a lot of freedom it is [WM] I meant Davidic dancing, clothing
you want to make sure people know about said sometimes that we are out of control or required! (joins in laughter)
what you are doing… and the heart behind incoherent. I’ve had multiple conversations it, including any misconceptions you’d like to with Steffany about this. When she’s leading, [Joshua] We fully embrace Davidic dancing –
speak to? because she’s experiencing a lot of freedom, it but we don’t fully embrace Davidic stripping off
may look like she’s in another world. But, in our of clothes in the public square!
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