Photo by Shaider Divina limiting , especially when you look at the Christian Music genre . There is an overarching sound or an all-encompassing sound that the whole Christian genre gets painted over with in a broad stroke . But when you look deeper into the artists creating music within the space , the music is as different as the people that make up the space . So , you have all of these different styles and different perspectives .
I was really struggling , because like you said , I love a lot of different things , and I want to do them . For so long I thought I could only do one type of thing because I thought only one type of thing would be accepted . But a friend told me recently , a pastor and mentor , that basically I have permission to bring my whole self into what I ’ m doing . That it takes the same level of humility to stand up on stage and dance and throw your inhibitions away as it does to stand up on stage and point people past you to Jesus . So , I want to bring my whole self , and that includes Worship , that includes Gospel , that includes Contemporary , it includes modern music . I feel like God has uniquely wired all of us in a certain way , and we shouldn ’ t feel like we can ’ t bring the fullness of who God created us to be into every room that He allows us to be in .
[ WM ] Well said ! I recently read a tweet of yours that said , “ You may be down but you ’ re not out . Get up and dust yourself off ”. This is something we all need to hear during this tough Covid19 year . After all , just about everything
Pick Yourself Up has changed . I have you ask you , was your tweet an inspiration from the Great Depression composition by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields , “ Pick Yourself Up ”?
[ Tauren ] I ’ m not familiar with that , but I love your reference , that ’ s awesome and it sounds really smart . The Bible says , ” A righteous man falls seven times and gets back up ”. We ’ re going to fall , were going to make mistakes , we ’ re going to struggle , but we ’ ve got to get up . Jesus instructs the disciples , “ If you go to a town and you ’ re rejected , dust your feet off and go to the next city ”. My father-in-law says it like this , “ In God ’ s purpose there ’ s no room for dusty feet .” We have to be able to dust off the rejection , the failures , the disappointments that life brings us , in order to step into the next thing that God brings us .
That was really the encouragement there , and specifically to the circumstances we find