team posts a Facebook message to go vote performing artist, to worship leader, to Christian I really am. And it’s the first time I actually felt
for me or this or that, and you get the people Rock musician, and how have you dealt with comfortable in my own skin, while I was leading
on there who are saying that you shouldn’t the performance dimension around all of this? worship. So I feel like I’ve been able to just be
be voting on anything and that you should be
me now as a Christian artist. I don’t feel like
giving all of the glory to God. Obviously, we [Zach] It’s a fine line. I can remember being I’m ever performing now, I’m just doing what’s
know that, I do, I wouldn’t be where I’m at in my Rock band and always feel like I had to natural. I certainly don’t want it to come off as
had it not been for the Lord. So, it’s kind of a kind of… you know, I created this persona, and a performance, as if it’s all about me, because
Catch-22 with some of that. It definitely feels kind of this ‘lead singer’ thing, and I felt like I it’s not. It’s never about what we’re doing on
weird sometimes, but at the same time it’s was always having to perform. It wasn’t until I that stage, it’s about what God is doing on
nice to know that He hears our prayers and gave my life to the Lord and became a worship that stage.
is happy for us, and is going to reward us for leader, and that first time I was standing up on our faithfulness. stage performing at church, that I realized that [WM] As a music fan and listener, how much
all these years I had just been faking it and trying time to you spend listening to Christian music
to be someone that I wasn’t. That this was who versus the stuff you grew up on, and how
[WM] What was it like to go from being a
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