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SOLOMON OLDS: I just, uh, remember coming to Christ when I was, I think probably, about eight and just reading through the Bible first, you know, read the Roman Road, Roman Sinton [phonetic] and stuff and finding out how to get saved and stuff and that was—that was really cool.

Uh, but I remember somebody showing me Philippians 4:13 at one time in my life and I was like—for some reason after I’d, you know, read through the whole testament—the New Testament, that one just seemed to keep sticking out at me.

I know it’s a favorite of a lot of people but I think it’s a favorite for a reason because, I don’t know, just even when I was a kid it was—it was such a huge verse to overcome things.

And even to this day when we’re in our band and we’re in the van and things are going bad, the van’s breaking down or flights are getting cancelled or the shows not doing well or something like that, uh, I always—I always flip to that verse and really think about man I really can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

You know and it just—it helps me go throughout the day and just focus on him and focus on his strength strengthening me because without him I can’t do anything because I’m just a human and he’s God.

And me plus having God is awesome and I like that way better than what’s normally just me.

DEREK MOUNT (Chap Stique): I came to Christ at a fairly young age, I was nine years old. I had been going to church since I could really read, and had been trained up in the Bible by my parents and my pastor and some other people, they were the key of my life there at church. I came to know Christ at a Billy Graham crusade when I was nine. My mom had been teaching me a lot through the Bible, I had memorized a lot of stuff and everything, and I could feel inside what Christ was doing in me, and knew that I needed to make a change. There was a guy named Chip Derden [phonetic] at my church at the time that was kind of a mentor of mine, that was a guy that was a deacon at the church, he was about 45 years old at the time. He was just a guy that I could come to and ask a lot of questions about, and we used to go through different passages of the Bible and he’d explain to me what they meant, and I just kept firing questions on and on. He was a very patient man to put up with an 8-year old kid just firing at him the whole time, a very patient gentleman. He was the one that first got me my first Good News version of the Bible, which he felt like I could maybe understand a little bit better, and I did. It made a big impact on my life and made it a lot easier to understand what Jesus was saying.