If you know me, you know I love music. Obsessed. I am always listening, researching or reading about new music. A few months ago a friend of mine from Nashville suggested I check out Michael Gungor. Okay, I am suggesting you check him out as well!! He is in a 4 person band, with his wife Lisa and friends Brad (guitar) and Josh (bass). Familiar with the song "Friend of God"? He helped co-write it. Just youtube him...Gungor...check out his acoustic of "Praise God from Who All Blessings Flow".
I have enjoyed reading his thoughts on worship:
“If leading worship is just about bringing a group of people into a room so we can get goose bumps and sing songs together, there’s not much value in that," explains Michael Gungor. "But if leading worship is a means to an end, that we leave this place as a different kind of people, as part of a new humanity that God wants to create--the people that are caring for the widows and orphans, that aren’t bound by the systems of this world but becoming free, becoming fully engaged in our world--then that matters.”
http://www.newreleasetuesday.com/article.php?article_id=384
Also check out the following song, Beautiful Things (also the title of their newest album). The following is from an interview with Michael about this particular song:
"The story of God has gotten bigger to us. We had become ‘professional’ Christians. We got to the point where we needed to figure out how to be the church in a more honest way. There is something to me about worship where we can have a more proper perspective about things. It is easy to get caught up in our daily circumstances, and we need to know that one day all of the angst and suffering we have now will be 'made new.' God is present even in our difficulties. If we lift our eyes up to God, we can have the hope that He has promised in His Word. He is the source of our strength and hope." http://www.newreleasetuesday.com/article.php?article_id=384
Beautiful Things by Michael Gungor
All this pain
I wonder if I’ll even find my way
I wonder if my life could really change at all
All this earth
Could all that is lost ever be found
Could a garden come up from this ground at all
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of the dust
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of us
All around
Hope is springing up from this old ground
Out of chaos life is being found in You
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of the dust
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of us
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of the dust
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of us
You make me new, You are making me new
You make me new, You are making me new
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of the dust
You make beautiful things
You make beautiful things out of us
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