Worship Musician March 2019 | Page 13

[WM] Worship music is an important part of singing love songs to God, I love that. your musical ministry. What does it mean to you personally?  me… seem to just really dial things back in. So that’s why I’ll listen to them, it just puts This might sound weird, but on the “Awaken” everything back into the God perspective and record, I hadn’t listened to it in a while, and gets my focus back to where it needs to be. [Michael] It’s changed my life. I have been I turn it on and I start crying in my car, just a worship leader since 1982. It was nineteen starting thinking about these songs, listening [WM] What does the rest of this year of 2019 years before I did a real vertical record. I struggle to “Reckless Love” again. It still just ministers hold for you and your plans as a songwriter and with the whole worship thing a little bit because to me… the songs are amazing to me. I guess artist? Touring? I just feel like it’s so much bigger than music. I can say that because most of them I didn’t write, you know? But even “Surrounded” and [Michael] Well I’m part of Compassion’s Road Worship is a lifestyle, loving your wife is worship, “Do it Again”, they just captivate your heart and Show and that’s going to be fun, I don’t do too loving your kids is worship, you know all of that. sort of dial you back in when you’re questioning many of those, but I’m looking forward to that. So for me in my heart and my head it’s hard to life and it all sort of comes down on you and I’m going out with Newsboys in the spring, differentiate, whether I’m singing “Place in This you just can’t make sense of it all. You think I’ve never done that, I love a little adventure. World” or “Draw Me Close”, to me there’s not a about the injustice in the world, and you just Obviously, the April 30th thing at Bridgestone, lot of difference in the way I look at life. The only get overwhelmed. And you know what? Just we’ll head to South Africa in June, we’ll head real difference is, “Place in This World” you’re putting on one of those records, especially to Europe in July, I’ll be in Brazil in August, and talking horizontal and “Draw Me Close” you’re good worship songs that really connect with then I’m doing a twenty-nine city tour in the Fall March 2019 Subscribe for Free... 13