How To Play with Purpose No Matter What w/ Daniel Carson

Just never turned back.

Yeah, that's so cool.

You feel like something, you know, you're working on guitar and you're forming your guitar skills.

Yeah.

but something deeper is probably being developed in you as a worshiper.

And now in this band of that's, you know, trust and unity is being built over time.

What do you feel like was built initially in those early days?

Yeah, I think it was like just a common desire for leading people in worship.

That was Chris's...

I mean, he was laser focused on, I want to write songs for people to worship God.

I want to lead worship.

And that's what really, I think, fired me up in the beginning was it's not just like... rock star, like concert, like, or like a pursuit of, we're gonna go out and play this or that, you know, it was like, it was always, he was always coming at it from this angle of like ministry,

you know,

and serving people and leading people in worship.

And I think that's just really where I connected, you know, from the beginning, that's, you know, what I also had a heart for.

And so I think it was just kind of like, And they were, you know, I was young.

And so they were kind of like an older, it was almost like this older brother mentality with the guys in the band.

And so I think it was like a good way for me to like mature and grow up spiritually and just be around guys that were like could encourage me and kind of watch how- Seeking the Lord.

Yeah, and I was around a lot of people, got fortunate to be around a lot of people who really, who I just kind of gleaned a lot of wisdom from, you know, and being around those people at a young age, just like, yeah, it was crazy.

That's so cool.

I think there's so much to be said for looking for something in someone that maybe they don't see in themselves fully or it's not realized yet.

And especially, you know, I think about on our team at our church, we have students serving on our team.

We have a youth service on Wednesday and they serve on Wednesdays, but then they're serving on Sundays now where we got a 14-year-old guy playing acoustic guitar and a 16-year-old girl leading worship in a room of a thousand people.

And Giving them opportunities, like, you know, healthy opportunities to learn and grow and set them up for success.

You never know, right? Like, what could be coming in the