life, inevitably you will have more hardship and more testimonies of how God’ s gotten you through it and more feelings and more unanswered questions for certain relationships or circumstances or all these other things of what do you do with, where do you put all this stuff. And this album is about giving it to God and letting it be fuel for the fire that He bestowed in me.
[ WM ] Excellent. Yeah, it’ s testimony that gives legs to the lyrics you write, and puts wheels on everything, and puts some depth behind what you’ re singing or saying. I’ ve seen two videos of the title song,“ I’ ve Got a Fire”. And Pat, in a time of ageism in the church and many worship leaders being retired so the church can appear to attract the young and be relevant. You’ ve blown that thinking up.
[ Pat ] Good!
[ WM ] You’ ve blown that thinking up with these videos that bring your Dad in with you. You’ re leading by example. Worship leaders should lead by example and not merely in song, but also by feeding the poor, praying for the sick, being generous and kind to others, keeping themselves unpolluted by the world and living at peace with everyone. Tell us about the song and the video, and your thinking behind all of it.
[ Pat ] Yes. Well, number one, that experience filming that video with my Dad is, and I knew it in the moment, is a forever memory, and I realized it at the time. You don’ t always realize in the moment you’ re in that you are going to remember this for the rest of your life. And there’ s a few things at play there. One is, anyone who has ever met my Dad realizes there’ s zero acting in that video. As long as I’ ve lived, which
I’ ve Got A Fire( Live) feat. Marty Barrett( My Dad)
is 40 years this year, he’ s been my pastor, and just retired in leading the church that he led. So, there was this already, he’ s set such an example for me of what it means to love God and be a disciple of Jesus and not just for a moment … over the course of his life. And no one’ s a perfect example of it, but when you get a living example of that, that’ s such a powerful marking thing. For me, that song is like,“ Oh, is there a way to share some of the joy?” It’ s like the true embarrassing joy that happens when you’ re flooded with eternal things, and you express it in a way that’ s jarring.
Yeah. My Dad dancing in places that would make any introvert just crumble. But also, there’ s a picture of, for us in the middle of us filming it, I want to share this, we were filming it and I was like,“ Oh, this would be so funny for people just to see this kind of dynamic and joyful”. But then all of a sudden while we were filming it, something emotional started to happen to me, and I didn’ t even see that part coming that wasn’ t calculated, that was like,“ Oh, I feel like I’ m letting people into something
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