As a recording and touring artist , Travis ’ meteoric rise is nothing short of phenomenal . Nominations in three categories for the 2018 GMA Awards , join the list of Grammy nominations , # 1 spots on Billboard , and seven award sweep at the 2017 Stellar Music Awards . In late September , Travis will step back out on the road for a series of tour dates as part of the 2018 Passion nights with Louie Giglio and Elevation Worship , and Hallelujah Here Below , also with Elevation Worship .
Crossover is the name of Travis Greene ’ s latest disc , but this is not the kind of crossover most people associate with a recording artist . This crossover refers to stepping into to the land filled with God ’ s promises . While God has called all of us to take this journey , not everyone makes it , and that is one of the things that Travis is out to change .
Travis is not afraid to roll up his sleeves and do some heavy lifting and embrace change head on . In 2016 , he and his wife Dr . Jackie Greene founded Forward City Church in Columbia ,
South Carolina . Seriously folks , if you ’ re looking for some best practices how to present your church to the world , you need to check out the Forward City web site and Instagram feed . Their Annual Report is conspicuously placed in the primary navigation on their web site , screaming out , “ Click me , you know you want to !”. And sure enough , like everything Travis does . that page pulls you in with vision and culminates with a call to action to engage their culture . If I lived in South Carolina , I ’ d be beating down the door , guitar in hand , begging for a chance to serve there . This is potent stuff folks , so please , please show this to your web and social media teams !
So now that we ’ ve filled in a few blanks about what Travis has been up to , it is our pleasure to introduce our readers to Travis Greene !
[ WM ] Travis , l love the way you use the word rhythm to describe your life . Making sure to stay in synch with the rhythm that God has set for your career , ministry , and family . What are some practical steps for aligning one ’ s entire life to God ’ s rhythm ?
[ Travis Greene ] First of all , being obedient – what did God tell you ? I think that ’ s the first important thing , what has God placed in your heart . The Bible says that he will give us the desires of our heart , and I think that ’ s been misinterpreted to mean He will grant us our wish list . What that ’ s saying is , that if we ’ re in good standing with Him and we are walking with Him , He will place the right things to desire in our hearts , giving us the desires that need to be in our heart . Whatever your calling is , whatever you ’ ve been created for , that has been placed in your heart , and for me that is the only way to be in the right rhythm with Him .
The Bible says , “ The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord .” He would never call you to a place that He can ’ t keep you in . So how do you balance it out ? How does the life of a Lebron James look easy when we know there is no way that it could be easy to do that much ? The only answer for it is grace . I get asked all the time how I wear as many hats as I do , and it ’ s only by grace . If God calls you to whatever it is in a particular season , He can put enough grace in you , more than is natural , to make it appear easy even though we know that it ’ s not . He gives you the ability to fulfill the assignment , and that is the only correct rhythm to live in .
[ WM ] What advice do you have for those seeking to discover that special thing that God has set aside just for them . That special communion with Him where he reveals the hidden treasure He has waiting on the other side of ‘ their Jordan ’?
[ Travis ] I have two answers to that , and I ’ m going to plagiarize my wife on the first one . She says , “ Feel fear and do it anyway !” I think that oftentimes we feel like fear is a warning from the natural world , maybe I shouldn ’ t do this . In the spiritual world it ’ s not , it ’ s just a part of it . Fear is that first cousin of faith , it ’ s that cousin that always irritates you but is still family so it ’ s still going to be around and you ’ ve got to tolerate it . Fear will always come knocking at your door . You can open the door , greet it , feel it , but definitely don ’ t let it in . You don ’ t want to let it in and be hanging out with it . So that ’ s the first response I would give anyone – feel fear , but do it anyway . I don ’ t care if you ’ re scared or not , do it anyway .
The second thing in conjunction with that is that you ’ re not waiting on God – God ’ s waiting on you . A lot of times we believe that if things haven ’ t started happening in our life – if the door isn ’ t wide open , if the money isn ’ t readily available , or the degrees aren ’ t in our resume , that maybe that means “ not yet .” With God , that ’ s not what it means , it ’ s the opposite . If everything lined up , then it wouldn ’ t require faith . I preached at Forward City recently about the story where David took it upon himself to count his men , and he got into a lot of trouble with God for doing that . But we do the same thing , we want everything to add up . We need it to calculate perfectly before we step out on faith , but faith never adds up , faith is always risky . You ’ re going to get to the Red Sea and
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