Third Day -- Their Take on Worship
- Updated Feb 01, 2002
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"Worship has always been a huge part of what we do," says Mac Powell, Third Day's sandpaper-and-grit vocalist. "That's why it's kind of amazing to see this praise and worship thing is such a fad now. It's weird to us because we've always done it. It's not like worship music is new, but all of the sudden everybody likes it now. Actually, that is a great thing and I believe it is a genuine move of God through his people."
"Worship has to come from the heart and be sincere," says Third Day drummer, David Carr, "so we've been really wary about jumping on a 'worship music' bandwagon. On the other hand, especially in our live shows, it's a big part of what we do and we want to make it even more so. Some of our songs we never thought of in worship - context until we began performing them live and saw people raising their hands and worshiping. It surprises us and makes us realize that what we do is sometimes more worshipful than we know."
The worship record, produced by Monroe Jones (Chris Rice, Margaret Becker, Wes Cunningham) and the band includes six live concert versions of Third Day worship favorites, such as Agnus Dei and My Hope Is You. There is also a live rendition of the hit song, Your Love, Oh Lord, from the critically acclaimed album, Time, named Rock Album of the Year during this year's Gospel Music Association Dove Award ceremony.
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Third Day also gives their own rootsy southern-edged rock treatment to a Bob Dylan classic; the title cut from his critically acclaimed album, Saved. "Bob Dylan made probably the most spiritual record I've ever heard in my life," says Mac. "You can just feel the sense of excitement and the spiritual fervor that he had then and it reminds me when I first became a Christian. It has a simplicity about faith that we wanted to share with our audience."
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Mac sums up the group's perspective on performing worship music: "There's no real transition for us from doing a regular song versus a worship song. We approach all of our music from one perspective-like Paul wrote, 'whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.' We want to remain in that mode continually. Worship is so much a part of who we are and what we do that we consider most of our songs worship songs. Worship is an inseparable part of who we are as a band."
Worship may now be considered trendy. It may be at the industry's cutting edge because of its bottom line viability, but for Third Day it is-and has always been a way of life.