church hurt as well . People will come to us and say , “ You know , I ’ ve been through this situation with a church and your music really has helped me get through it ”. And we started getting comments like that even before we started talking about it publicly . So it was really cool that God was able to use that .
Have you ever listened to PJ Morton ? He has played keys with Maroon Five and he ’ s incredible . He ’ s a believer and I saw him for the first time when he was getting his start opening for Kirk Franklin in Nashville . He has this song on his Gumbo album called “ Religion ” and it talks about how like we put stuff on God that he has nothing to do with .
And that happens a lot in the church . Like God is probably just up in heaven shaking his head , being like , “ I did not say that . I didn ’ t not say that !”. You know ? I just feel like that happens a lot . And so I think part of my healing process , ‘ cause I was a kid growing up in this crazy church and so part of my healing process as an adult coming out of that has been to get to know the real Jesus . I think I believed in a false version of him growing up and getting to experience the freedom and the love and the peace and the healing , the redemption … like the beauty of the real Jesus .
It ’ s just unbelievable . Like honestly unbelievable . I think I just can ’ t get over it sometimes . I ’ m honestly like , “ What ? How did I not know this ? Like how did I not know that you were this good and that , you know , you don ’ t judge me , but you love me and you take my brokenness and you make it beautiful . You aren ’ t sitting there ready to smite me when I do something wrong ?”
“ Religion ” by PJ Morton
But His kindness leads me to repentance . I feel like my whole process has been getting to know the real Jesus , and I feel like there were a lot of things that I believed about him that he had nothing to do with you know ? PJ talks about that stuff . And so I feel like my heart for people who ’ ve been hurt by the church is just to challenge them with the idea that maybe they ’ ve been believing things about God that He has nothing to do with … and that are not really Him .
The group of people that Jesus went the most after were those people who put false words in his mouth . The older I get I just think that can get so dangerous and I think God has a righteous anger towards that . So for all the people that have been wounded by the church , I want them to know it ’ s not okay . God has nothing to do with it .
He wants to show you who he really is and he ’ s far better than we could ever hope or even dare to imagine to think . I remember one of the first times I kind of started to believe that God might 14 August 2023 Subscribe for Free ...