Todd Agnew again

I haven't heard any more Todd Agnew songs in the last few weeks, but I found myself Wikipedia-ing him today, which led me to this interview. I now have a lot of respect for Todd Agnew. I still don't like any of his songs that I've heard, especially "My Jesus." But I like him. Here's a few reasons:

- "It's kind of like taking a pipe that can be all stopped up with stuff, and the cleaning out of the pipe makes it a more effective pipe. That the design for us was for God's power to move through us to change the world. Genesis 12 - 'I want to bless you so you will be a blessing' - you know? I guess a lot of times we as a modern church, and you see the same thing happen back then with Israel, is that they got focused on the first part..."

- "Like, I'm single, and dating and girls and all that kind of stuff is 'an important part' - 'a distracting part' - but it's part of your life. What you realize is that if you're designed to be a conduit for the Lord's power and you're just trying to go find a girl, then you're taking something and trying to put it in that conduit. As opposed to - if God designs it, He designed you to be a conduit, so He's going to bring something into your life that makes you a better conduit..."

- "I'm a worship leader and one of the things I do in worship, I always ask people, 'Do you mean that? Do you have any idea what you're singing? Are you just singing things?' Because I just woke up one day and realized I was singing 'Did You Feel the Mountains Tremble' by Delirious - and had no idea what I was talking about! I just totally didn't understand the song at all. And so I was having an emotional experience with no concept of that at all..."

Good stuff. Solid. It's a long interview, and I'm not so much down with the first part of it (talking about "My Jesus"), but it's not bad. I just don't want to leave you with the impression that I think Todd Agnew - or any Christian singer, or Christian person - should be scorned, and certainly not in this context.

I think I feel another idea coming on...