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My music is a tool. It's a wedge that, once the door opens, it sticks and keeps the door open. It gets people's attention, and once their attention is stayed, provides a platform for me to speak. That's when the Gospel goes out. That's when I talk about the REAL GOSPEL. That's when I talk about REAL FAITH and a REAL PRAYER LIFE with God. That INTIMATE relationship that Jesus talks about when He says that many will come to Him in the end and He will tell them "be gone from Me. I never knew you." We want people to KNOW Jesus. We want people to be IN Jesus and for Jesus to be IN those people. But in order for that to happen, God's Word and God's truth must go out to those people. Uncensored. No twisting of Scripture. Not just part of it - ALL of it. Like Paul said to the elders of the church in Ephesus - "Therefore, I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all people. For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose of God."
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My music has proven to be an attention-grabber. I'm not your typical artist. I mix many different elements together and deliver them in a way that is unexpected. For people who enjoy my genre of music, it tends to be captivating. To add to this, I say things boldly. I don't "shrink back," like Paul says. I tell it like it is and leave people with the task of wrestling inside themselves. I'm finally comfortable on stage, after all these years, so there is a bit of stage presence that keeps people's attention. I use this to deliver a message always. After every song, I speak. I share my testimony. I talk about God's views on discipleship (from Scripture - not man's ideas of what it should look like), faith, prayer, evangelism, relationships, and more. I try to deliver as much truth as possible to affect as large of a percentage of the people present as possible.
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Every time I step on stage there is an altar call. If people surrender their lives to Jesus, I look for a way to baptize them as soon as possible. I look at Phillip and the Ethiopian eunuch. Philip preached Jesus to the man and they came upon some water, and the man was immediately baptized. They didn't wait. They didn't try to organize some event so there could be a bigger crowd. It's real and it's now.
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NEW MUSIC helps fuel this aspect of this ministry and allows me to excitedly approach people I wouldn't normally have the guts to approach. The harder people in our society. The thugs. The gang members. The criminals and killers. But new music costs money. $600.00 per song, actually, and there's a stronger reach if I can get a music video to go with it, which is roughly $300. So, for $900.00 I can add a new song to the mix and I have something new that NO ONE has ever heard before and I can go out and, instead of selling it... give it away and bring the message of the Gospel along with it.
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I take great care to select musical instrumentals that are dynamic and explosive. I pray to the LORD for guidance and His favor and blessing every time I open my digital audio workstation or my notepad to wrtie. That He would be guiding the process and giving me the words that HE WANTS to be said. My producer worked with Dr. Dre and Eminem on one of the most successful rap albums of all time (Chronic 2001) and teaches music at the University of Nevada Reno. It's not lost on me that the more I work with this guy, the greater the chance that perhaps he too will one day surrender his life to Jesus. I pray for that.