[ WM ] Wow . That is something . The subject of the fear of God is important to understand . My wife Judy and I have been reading The Book of Revelations and how at the end of days even many Christians will fall away . What ’ s going to keep us on the right path ? It ’ s the fear and the reverence of God , that we abide in Him and have that godly fear . And want to stay in that . If we do , we ’ ll be prepared all the way to the end . So that ’ s another reason why I think this song is just so great .
Totally switching gears here … a musical question for you from it … whose idea was the slide guitar part ? I can see worship guitar players all over the world looking to see where they placed their slides . ( laughing )
[ Brooke ] Yeah , I take no credit for that . ( laughing )
One of the special things about these past couple of records , 7 and 8 is just the Lord always shows up in the details . And one of the things that happened at 7 was that we had done all the pre-production with two guitars . Dylan Thomas , who ’ s a longtime friend of mine and my husband ’ s ( we served together at Hillsong for a million years so he is a really close friend of ours ) and then a guy called Jonathan Lee .
And so , we had done all the pre-production for 7 , and it was two nights before we were recording and our first night of rehearsals in the church where we were recording it . And Jonathan Lee got a phone call when we were rehearsing the first song , and his father had suddenly passed away . And so obviously he needed to leave and be with his family .
So two days before the recording , we found ourselves a guitarist down and Jonathan Mix , who ’ s our engineer , he said , “ I think I know the guy who can step into this ”. His name was E Edwards from Elevation Worship . And E within a few hours , got in a car from Charlotte , North Carolina , drove through the night listening to the pre-production demos and learning the parts , and turned up at rehearsal the next morning . He ended up playing these parts that Jonathan had written . And one of the precious things about that is the friendship that has now formed between E and Jonathan .
So when it came to our team getting together again , Jason and I were like , “ Well , we can ’ t just choose the two guitarists because now we have three , who do we kick out ?”
None of them was the answer . We need them all . So the cool thing is there ’ s actually three guitarists on this record . So Dylan , Jonathan and E , and I think it ’ s E on the slide for “ Fear of God ”. The others will have to forgive me if I got that wrong . ( laughing ) I ’ m pretty sure it ’ s
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