than it was in the beginning for me (laughs). I like, “Okay, I just wrote this, and you picked drawn in. It caused me to wonder, “Why is some
think we were always honest, but it maybe took it apart. Am I going to pout about this or are worship like that and some isn’t?”. Sometimes
a little more time to say, “Okay I trust you. I’m we going to make it better”? There were some worship can draw people in immediately, and
not going to get hurt by this.” I think now it’s moments where we did a better job of that than other times, possibly due to the worship leader,
been ten years of writing together and there is others, but I think that was a really big learning the integrity behind the songs, the choice of
a little more developed trust and faith in each process, and I think that it was probably God’s opening song, the stage volume or some other
other’s abilities. I think back in the day we grace that we got to learn that with each other variable, it’s much less impacting. Do you have
were just growing that, and we were such new before we started writing with other people. any thoughts on this? I would hope all of our
songwriters individually let alone together.
worship times could be just as engaging as
Honestly it probably helped our relationship,
those animated shorts I watched.
We talk about songwriting all the time, and too. We were working together, newly married, we teach other songwriters and creatives that and spending a ton of time together, and [Katie] Oh my goodness! Isn’t that interesting!
identity is not based in what you create. Your learning how to be honest in our work and I can’t speak for everybody, but at least for
identity is in God and we get to create things learning how to communicate, things that every me, one of the prayers that we and I have
from that place of being known and loved and young couple need to grow in. always prayed for in my writing, worship
full of grace. I think those beginning years were
leading, and setlist selection, is that when
the testing of all of that. We wanted to make [WM] This may be a bit esoteric to ask but we ever decide to open our mouths to talk
songs that we loved, that we wanted to play I was watching the new Disney+ channel last or do anything spontaneous that we didn’t
on a Sunday, and that we wanted to put in a night and ended up streaming a bunch of previously rehearse, it is aligned with what
record. Part of that comes with being really cartoons that were no longer than 2 minutes God is saying right then. That’s what “hooks”
honest with each other about whether we think each. Some of them were only 90 seconds people in. And if it’s in line it’s prophetic. So,
the lyrics are strong, if we think the melody is long! What was compelling to me was how we’re writing songs, we talk about it all the
strong, and if we think it’s going to work in a quickly, maybe only 30 seconds, I became time, and something that’s really encouraged
church setting. In the beginning stages it was fascinated with each story, and was completely us in the songwriting process, is talking about
photo by Mark Cluney
March 2020
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