Casting Crowns won a Grammy and Dove award this past year. They sold well over 130,000 copies of this CD the first week it went up for sale. I believe they are over 3 million now. They have the #1 CD on the Christian charts right now for the 104th week (if not longer). This group is good enough to hit on any chart, country, pop, yet they believe enough in their message to sing Christian music and you and I both know secular music doesn’t sell as well as all other categories of music. But, music reaches people, and Casting Crowns is reaching MANY people. I happen to think Casting Crowns is a blessing in a world that is in the end times when we see so much disgrace in the world around us.
Kain started this thread with a negative comment saying final warning; listen up, blah blah blah…. And frankly, that puts people’s asses on their backs thinking, who the hell does she think she is? She is saying everyone else’s way is wrong and no, it isn’t. Just this is another way to reach people and isn’t that what it really is all about? Only Casting Crowns has 3-4 minutes to convey that message. When I was 9 years old, my great grandmother sat me down and said, Jesus died for all of our sins so that we may have ever lasting life. I had been extremely ill prior to that and just knew I wasn't ever alone, but after that, there were times in my life I doubted and I found those were the times I was slowed down and really messed up.
We are all told to have faith like a child but as we get older, we do tend to question, pick apart, strap ourself to little words here and there that do slow us down, when all we need to know is that it is Jesus.
Maybe, Santa will slip you this CD and maybe even Lifesong in your stocking. This isn't one of my favorite songs, but all their CD's are really incredible.
You know God?