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TechnoratiThe beauty of it for us was, we went out to LA, we went to the Grammys, and we had a great time out there. We kind of kept looking around like ‘Are we really out here?’ but at the end of the day – I say this with great humility – we felt very good about what happened – not that we lost or that we didn’t receive the award … but we felt great that we left there, got on a plane, went straight back on to the tour and went right back to doing what really matters. And that’s leading the church in worship and we did that the night before the Grammys and we set out to do that the night after the Grammys (laughs). That’s the real stuff. If we received the award, that would’ve been fantastic and I promised we wouldn’t have sent it back and said we don’t really need this or want it. We would’ve said ‘thank you very much’ and brought it home and put it on a shelf somewhere. But it was just awesome to get back to pursuing … I know it sounds like a cliché, but what we’re pursuing is such a far greater prize than anything on this planet. And we’re about doing that today and humbled and excited to be able to do it.
CP: So what is it about these songs that are drawing more and more people and the local churches?
Giglio: I think it’s a couple of things. One, Chris has a tremendous ability to write songs that people can attach to really quickly. And that’s important when you’re writing songs for the church. And that doesn’t mean that every song has to fall into a certain format. It’s just that when you’re gathering people to give them voice, you want to put a song out there that people can latch onto the first time they hear it. I’ve always been amazed to watch Chris leads songs, especially when he comes [out] with a new song. At the very first time people hear it, they sing it. And something in them, most of the time says, ‘I think I’ve been singing this song all my life.’ And so that’s a very special gift. And that’s one of the reasons I think the songs have really caught on.
But I think another reason is the songs are really rooted in a desire to make much of God. That’s been our theme through the whole Passion journey and we’re trying to inspire people to the greatness of God so that their lives will reflect that in everything that they do. Chris, with ‘How Great is Our God’ and ‘Holy and Created One’ in his new album, the songs ‘Famous One’ and ‘Not to Us’ … you know the songs as you go through them. They’re just mirrors as Chris is just holding up a mirror to the greatness of God so that people can see that and respond to it. I think God is into that, because God wants to see how great He is and because it gives Him freedom to breathe on the song and to breathe into life. The fact that people can grab them easily is that they’re not simple. They’re easy to sing, but they’re not simple little songs. They have depth and theological content that can become for people, I think, an anchor in the good times and in the bad times in life. Continue »
