This kind of passionate faith can be painful. Not caring is easy. Caring hurts. Caring costs you something. But without this sort of faith, you will never create to your fullest potential. Faith is a gift. Like I've said, felt belief is not necessarily something that you choose to have or not to have. But it is a gift that you can open yourself to receive.
I've found that limitations can be an artist's best friend sometimes.
There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards.
You don't have to be afraid, even death itself does not have power. In Christ, everything is becoming new, everything is different.
The whole idea of worship being associated with music, it gives you an impotence to make art that is true, that is honest and that opens the human heart to God and to reality.
I do think that Christians will make music that oh should have some of the grandest visions of why we should create music and why we should seek to create beauty world.
If anyone should have a reason to not be afraid, to move beyond the expectations of culture, that is kind of the whole message of Christianity.
I kind of grew up a guitar nerd and I tried to figure out how to shred on an acoustic guitar as a kid, while listening to jazz or whatever. So that is kind of a different thing and my church background, growing up with worship kind of the ground that I learned how to play music from. Those are all odd ways of growing up, compared to most people, so I think the music has plenty of uniqueness in that.
I'm not one to call out an individual and say "I don't think that is honest." Who am I to know what is in their heart while they are singing it?
Not just in Christian music but also in a lot of Christian culture there is a lot of pretending that everyone is perfect, nobody is really going through much.
The danger of art created to rise above the noise is that it may end up being noise itself.
It's hard to make a living in music, so a lot of times in the arts it's safer to kind of fit into a box.
