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TechnoratiAs a team you go further as well, because, for example, Laura, who is a singer with me, will sing an angle that I wasn’t thinking on ‘God is light,’ and she’ll say something that I wouldn’t even have thought of. And that will spark a revelation in me and I’ll sing something else, and we’ll just build this energy around the Word. Oh, it’s awesome! It’s so exhilarating.
BC: It sounds really amazing.
Edwards: I love worship with the Word!
BC: I think it’s great to have such a central focus on the Word when it comes to worship. Is there a similar focus or preparation when it comes to your songwriting process?
Edwards: Yeah, with the songs that I write, there are basically two things when it comes to preparation. The first thing of course is the meditation on the Word. When I say this though, what I mean is that I take the Word of God and I turn it into a dialogue with Him. So I take Psalm 45, for example, which says ‘You are fairer than the sons of men.’ And I won’t just do a Word study on what that means, but I will turn it into a dialogue, and close my eyes, and I look right at Him in my mind’s eyes and say: ‘Jesus, you are fairer than the sons of men.’ And I’ll ask the Holy Spirit, ‘What does that mean?’ And I start to develop in my heart this dialogue with the Lord, and I say, ‘That means that You are better than, You are holy, You are superior in every way, You are fairer than the sons of men.’ So I will develop what that phrase means, and I’ll take a notepad and just jot down my thoughts.
But I also want to make sure that what I’m writing is born of the Spirit, meaning it’s out of a connection with Him. I want to write songs to God, not only about God. I want to lead people to close their eyes, and actually talk to a person who is listening. You know, He is really listening to our worship. So I imagine that He is right in front of me, and I take the Scriptures, and I just turn it into a dialogue. Sometimes it’ll be like Him speaking over me, and some of the songs I write feel like the voice of God speaking over the people. Some messages would be something like the urgency of the hours. I’m studying eschatology, the study of the End Times, and so I feel this urgency of the hours, and I write a song that’s more directed to the people. But the first thing is that I take all the Scriptures, and I want everything I do to be based in truth, not just based of the whim off the top of my head. So I get the theology first. I get my heart moving, and then I’ll go and I’ll put music to it. Sometimes I’ll grab a couple of musicians, and I like to write with other people, and I’ll say ‘Let’s write on this theme.’ So we’ll play some chord progressions, we mess around a little bit, and we’ll usually end up forming something together. Continue »
