One song that would let God know how you felt about your time here on Earth . . .

There’s an amazing scene in the Johnny Cash biopic -  ‘Walk the Line’ – when Johnny is trying to get a recording deal with Sam Phillips in Sun Studio. Johnny plays a popular religious ‘Jimmy Davies’ song. Sam is suitably unimpressed:

"If you was hit by a truck and you was lying out there in that gutter dying, and you had time to sing *one* song. One song that people would remember before you're dirt. One song that would let God know how you felt about your time here on Earth . . .  You tellin' me that's the song you'd sing? That same Jimmy Davis tune we hear on the radio all day, about your peace within, and how it's real, and how you're gonna shout it? Or . . . would you sing somethin' different. Somethin' real. Somethin' *you* felt. Cause I'm telling you right now, that's the kind of song people want to hear. That's the kind of song that truly saves people."

We want to sing something different, something real. Being a called a ‘worship’ band is a strange thing, as opposed to just being a ‘band’ for example. But, for us as Trent, it’s about two things. Firstly, writing songs that express how we feel about God in a way that is real and authentic to us and for our church community, Trent Vineyard. We play in our church, Trent Vineyard, two Sundays a month. This is one of our key values and priorities. This is home for us and we are precious about spending time ‘at home’. We write songs to lead people in worship – that is, to inspire and give a voice for people to communicate with God, to sing our stories of what He has done in our lives, as individuals and within community, and to celebrate the amazing person of Jesus.

Second, how we play the songs matters. Nothing against the traditional worship leader model, but we like our noise, our electric guitars and drums. When Bruce Springsteen inducted U2 into the ‘Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’ a couple of years ago he said that great rock bands search “for the same kind of combustible force that fueled the expansion of the universe after the big bang. You want the earth to shake and spit fire. You want the sky to split apart and for God to pour out.” Now we’re no U2 by any stretch of the imagination – but that’s our desire, that when we play together and lead worship we pray that that something happens that is bigger than just 5 guys playing music, we pray God splits the sky and joins with us, a little bit of heaven on earth.

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