Prose and Poet

“If leading worship is just about bringing a group of people into a room so we can get goosebumps and sing songs together, there’s not much value in that. 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.”

The quote there is from the “about us” page on Gungor’s website, http://www.gungormusic.com/pages/whoweare.html. Thanks to @AlieCat82 for sending the video below:

The whole Gungor album is on we7.com. This album is the closest thing to A Beautiful Collision by David Crowder Band I’ve heard, and that’s the highest compliment I can think of. Words and lines grab me and show me a different way of dealing with things; crunching guitar chords, wailing solos, toy piano, banjo, off-beat drumming. The whole thing is about shifting the listener, not a MOR background to the lyrics.