Check out NewReleaseTuesday.com for an interview with Sojourn Worship & Arts Pastor Mike Cosper. They ask him all about the motivation and recording process for our latest worship record, Over The Grave. A sample quote from Pastor Mike, when asked about themes on the album:
One reason we came to Watts is that his stuff has an aggressive tone. What I mean by aggressive is that he goes straight after challenging topics like sin, the devil and death. These are topics which are rich and constant throughout scripture but not necessarily part of the dialog in modern worship circles. I have a lot of respect for the modern worship movement but I think they have done a pretty poor job at getting people to look face to face with their sin, to confess their sin, to lament their sin and to lament the sin of the world around them. Often times the modern worship movement gives us a gospel of hope without a clear picture of the cross. I am really convicted that all of the hope we should celebrate as a church and all the things we should be excited about as God’s church is because God has reconciled us to himself through the blood of his Son. Watts makes that stuff so clear. He is constantly showing us Jesus dead, buried and resurrected in one form or another.
