though, I still love playing guitar just as much as I just want to keep pointing people to Christ. man! He’s the reason any of it exists. I can’t
I did when I was a kid. It’s actually kind of cool that when people have take credit for any of it.”
the “enamored” attitude, sometimes when I
[WM] What are your thoughts about the say something from the platform, it’s amazing [WM] I recently read a discourse in social
nuances between having people sing your how much of their attention I’ll get, which is media on how a guitar solo is “not worship.”
songs on Sunday morning, and the fact that great! They’re very focused on what I’m going Care to share your thoughts on this?
some people are Lincoln Brewster fans – to say. It’s a great opportunity to humanize people who love your songs, love your guitar what I do and who I am, and that everything [Lincoln] One of the many strange things
playing, and Lincoln in general. is not as it seems. I have a real life, with kids, about social media is that everybody gets the
a wife of almost twenty-five years, challenges same volume. If we were all sitting in a room,
[Lincoln] The first thing is to just be aware and struggles, victories and defeats, and all of knew each other, and in relationship with each
that the dynamic exists, I know it’s there, but I that stuff. other, when one person talks you know their
feel like I still just have one job, which is to use
backstory and their propensities. You may not
the gifts and talents God has given me to point We are designed by God to worship. America, pay much mind to what they say because you
people to Christ. Whether that’s on stage or off, and the world for that matter, does not have a know them. But that person can get online
through music, or through the things I say and worship problem. We never have. We just have and have the same megaphone that Andy
the way I live my life, it’s all about pointing people a focus problem, so we end up worshiping the Stanley has, in some contexts. Some of those
to Christ. Every weekend at my church, we get wrong stuff most of the time. I’m not under conversations, to me, just aren’t worth having.
people from both categories. There are people any delusion that if somebody starts to get who have been there a long time, who know enamored, or starts to worship what I do, that I’ve had some of my best worship moments
me to be one of the Senior Pastors, and know it’s weird. The same is true for an iPhone, or a while playing a guitar solo to God. It’s a voice,
that I lead worship and it’s all good. And then guitar somebody wants. For me, I just want to for me. I sing okay, but I’ve always said that if
there are other people who are enamored by make sure that I can take that and say, “That’s I can’t sing it or say it, I play it. It’s just another
that. I don’t really let it affect me any differently, very kind. That’s awesome, but Jesus is the voice for me. I think people forget what the
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