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DEREK WEBB: I feel like a lot of what I see coming out of the Church in terms of art, Christian music, Christian art, whatever it is, I feel like deals in, unfortunately, probably the most spiritual 2% of life and culture, the most spiritual 2% of stuff in life. Yet the Bible gives us a framework and a language to deal with all 100% of stuff that we find that we come up against in life. So it’s kind of no wonder when people look at the art that comes out of the Church and Christian music, on the whole, that they see Christianity as kind of this one-dimensional, kind of irrelevant worldview to modern life that only deals with transcendent moments of worship and the afterlife, and that’s kind of it. ‘Cause that’s kind of all that our art’s covering. However, the Bible does give us a tremendous framework with which to deal with all of life, all 100% of creation and culture. You know, everything from the Government to sexuality, to everything. There couldn’t be a more relevant text to modern life, but I think people are just convinced that it doesn’t because how it’s being represented to them by way of maybe the art that’s coming out of the Church, it just doesn’t seem to have very much to say. And yet if you ever want to have your mind blown, stop listening to your friends, stop looking at the subculture around you. If you really want to engage in a counter-cultural idea, go and read the words of Jesus, look at the things that he’s commanded us to do, look at the way that he lived, look at the way that he loved people. And go straight to the Bible to do it, and you will find something that is so much bigger and broader than this kind of subculture that we have kind of settled for oftentimes in America, and you will find something truly counter-cultural, something that really world and life kind of changing. And you’re really only going to find that when you go directly to those pages.