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MALE VOICE 1: Definitely because all of our music and all of our songs, you know, are not just faith based, you know or faith based ideas but they are—usually you can take, you know, almost any piece, um, of it or of the—of the song and directly relate it to scripture.

And so as more people are exposed to the music, you know whether they know it or not, they’re being exposed to the word. You know it’s just like when Jesus would speak to the people in parables. He was giving them the word but he was giving it to them in a way where they can understand it on the level of their living.

And that’s Grits’ whole focus you know and that’s what we try to do. You know a lot of people, uh, misconstrue it, you know and all you guys try to cross over. And it’s like—but that’s what Christ’s mission—whole mission was.

He always was trying to reach those who, you know needed to be reached and reach those who people didn’t think that he should be reaching you know. But that’s where the need was you know and that’s where—that’s what we do.

We make music for those with needs. And if you don’t have a need then you probably won’t connect this. You know I mean I don’t know too many perfect people in this world that don’t have needs but if you don’t have any needs then you wouldn’t understand what Grits is about.

But people who have needs understand exactly what we’re about and they know exactly where we’re coming from.

BONAFIDE: For me David, you know, just because look, I mean his rise to power and everything he went through, and then the fall, and then how God restored him. That’s like the perfect scenario because always at the height of when things are going great, you know, we as humans tend to do stupid stuff and fall on our fact and a lot of times we can’t live with the guilt. It takes a merciful God to restore us because you know how guilt can just overtake somebody. You know, especially now the way Christianity is, you know things that are taught in church, it’s almost like an unlivable God is being preached, and it’s like that’s not anybody’s reality. That’s why we have to get in our Word daily, and restore ourselves basically each morning we get up. So David and definitely Solomon. Any man can relate to those characters.

COFFEE: Definitely David, just because I mean like my middle name was David, and my mom always taught me names mean something. So I always tried to look at his story and just see, you know, along the lines of—because even in the Word how they would name you according to your father and different legacies, and so I kind of took that to heart like “Well, I’d better see what David was about”, you know what I’m saying, so that I can know different things and challenges that may come my way. And because he was a leader, you know, and he was a leader at a young age, and called to some great and powerful positions, you know, and went through some really real challenges, had real challenges in his life. But between David and definitely Paul, you know, because I see Paul as a very aggressive guy, aggressive believer, you know pretty much almost militant. And just learning from their examples of—well, Paul’s example of really just that hard-core aggressiveness about, you know, his belief and spreading the word, and knowing how to reach everyone and remaining consistent. You know, challenging Peter on “Hey, don’t be over here saying this and being like this and be over here like that. Keep it consistent. What you do there, do it here, too.” So definitely those two guys are, for me, standouts.