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{t:"Not many people get the opportunity to travel in the cockpit ",p:6,x:90,y:429,w:484,h:69},
{t:"of a Hercules transport plane during a night-flight from ",p:6,x:129,y:465,w:447,h:21},
{t:"Tikrit to Baghdad in Iraq. In January 2008, I had the opportu-",p:6,x:90,y:491,w:479,h:21},
{t:"nity while on Third Day’s God and Country tour to Kuwait and ",p:6,x:90,y:518,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Iraq on a groundbreaking trip with USO to entertain American ",p:6,x:90,y:545,w:485,h:21},
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{t:"flecting that we were the first contemporary Christian band ",p:6,x:90,y:598,w:488,h:21},
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{t:"      The apostle Paul often called believers traveling with ",p:6,x:120,y:705,w:456,h:21},
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{t:"What did Paul notice about soldiers that could be applied to ",p:6,x:90,y:758,w:487,h:21},
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{t:"We returned to Kuwait from Iraq on an “angel flight”—a ",p:7,x:120,y:261,w:455,h:23},
{t:"plane carrying the casket of a fallen soldier. He paid the ulti-",p:7,x:90,y:288,w:480,h:21},
{t:"mate sacrifice; the sacrifices of a touring Christian rock band ",p:7,x:90,y:314,w:486,h:21},
{t:"are trivial in comparison.",p:7,x:90,y:341,w:194,h:21},
{t:"On our trip to Iraq, we learned much about ourselves and our",p:7,x:120,y:368,w:460,h:21},
{t:"faith. This book is simply about a band of brothers, fellow work",p:7,x:90,y:394,w:484,h:21},
{t:"-",p:7,x:562,y:394,w:7,h:21},
{t:"ers for the gospel, fellow soldiers of Christ, faithfully walking the",p:7,x:90,y:421,w:492,h:21},
{t:"path that the Lord Jesus has called us to follow",p:7,x:90,y:448,w:358,h:21},
{t:". It is dedicated to ",p:7,x:438,y:448,w:136,h:21},
{t:"fellow workers and fellow soldiers all over the world.",p:7,x:90,y:474,w:407,h:21},
{t:"Nigel James, January 2008",p:7,x:360,y:516,w:210,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   8",p:7,x:16,y:1055,w:181,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:07 AM",p:7,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"1",p:8,x:398,y:-45,w:222,h:600},
{t:"Set This Place on Fire",p:8,x:81,y:479,w:488,h:43},
{t:"-Consuming Fire-",p:8,x:172,y:644,w:303,h:54},
{t:"set this place on fire",p:8,x:191,y:718,w:269,h:40},
{t:"send Your spirit, savior",p:8,x:181,y:758,w:291,h:40},
{t:"rescue from the mire",p:8,x:189,y:798,w:278,h:40},
{t:"show Your servant favor",p:8,x:190,y:838,w:278,h:40},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   1",p:8,x:16,y:1055,w:181,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:08 AM",p:8,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"2",p:9,x:90,y:943,w:8,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:9,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"From the beginning of Tird Day we realized that we needed ",p:9,x:155,y:100,w:414,h:22},
{t:"to have someone to speak into our lives as individuals and as ",p:9,x:160,y:127,w:409,h:22},
{t:"a band. Trough the years we have had many people, pas-",p:9,x:160,y:153,w:392,h:22},
{t:"tors, and friends travel with us. But of all those people, Nigel ",p:9,x:153,y:180,w:401,h:22},
{t:"James has been the most important. He has allowed us  ",p:9,x:135,y:207,w:371,h:22},
{t:"and reminded us to be men of God frst, and as a result, our music ",p:9,x:90,y:234,w:445,h:22},
{t:"and ministry have refected that. Nigel has kept us accountable to each ",p:9,x:90,y:260,w:473,h:22},
{t:"other, to the church, and, of course, to our Lord. He has helped us to ",p:9,x:90,y:287,w:462,h:22},
{t:"grow in our faith and has reminded us to stay focused on our calling ",p:9,x:90,y:314,w:456,h:22},
{t:"and on what Tird Day is really all about.",p:9,x:90,y:340,w:269,h:22},
{t:"Mac Powell, November 2006",p:9,x:366,y:366,w:203,h:23},
{t:"Whenever people find out that I travel with Third Day ",p:9,x:90,y:415,w:488,h:69},
{t:"as their road pastor, they always ask me the same two ",p:9,x:146,y:452,w:430,h:21},
{t:"questions. The second question is, “Do you need someone to ",p:9,x:90,y:478,w:487,h:21},
{t:"carry your bags?” I laugh politely and mention that I’m strong ",p:9,x:90,y:505,w:485,h:21},
{t:"enough to carry my own bags. However, the first question ",p:9,x:90,y:532,w:488,h:21},
{t:"needs a more serious answer. Everyone always asks me, “How ",p:9,x:90,y:558,w:485,h:21},
{t:"did you get the job of Third Day’s road pastor?” Depending on ",p:9,x:90,y:585,w:485,h:21},
{t:"how much time I have and how interested the person looks, ",p:9,x:90,y:612,w:487,h:21},
{t:"I’ve got two possible replies. My short reply is that it is a “God ",p:9,x:90,y:638,w:485,h:21},
{t:"thing”; and the longer reply, which explains the set of circum-",p:9,x:90,y:665,w:480,h:21},
{t:"stances in which I’ve ended up working with the band, adds up ",p:9,x:90,y:692,w:484,h:21},
{t:"to basically the same answer—it’s a God thing.",p:9,x:90,y:718,w:362,h:23},
{t:"If you think about the situation, it does seem to stretch the ",p:9,x:120,y:745,w:455,h:21},
{t:"bounds of credibility that a man from Cardiff, Wales, in the UK ",p:9,x:90,y:772,w:484,h:21},
{t:"would find himself in the privileged and responsible position ",p:9,x:90,y:798,w:486,h:21},
{t:"of being spiritual adviser and friend to one of the most suc-",p:9,x:90,y:825,w:480,h:21},
{t:"cessful and influential bands in the history of Christian music. ",p:9,x:90,y:852,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Equally unlikely is that their production manager would up-",p:9,x:90,y:878,w:480,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   2",p:9,x:16,y:1055,w:181,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:09 AM",p:9,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"3",p:10,x:561,y:943,w:8,h:21},
{t:"Set Tis Place on Fire",p:10,x:432,y:41,w:138,h:21},
{t:"root from his home in Australia to join the band’s crew, or that ",p:10,x:90,y:101,w:484,h:21},
{t:"their merchandise manager is a missionary from Brazil. Yet ",p:10,x:90,y:127,w:488,h:21},
{t:"that’s the way God often works: “For just as the heavens are ",p:10,x:90,y:154,w:486,h:21},
{t:"higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways ",p:10,x:90,y:181,w:486,h:21},
{t:"and my thoughts higher than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:9 nlt). ",p:10,x:90,y:207,w:485,h:21},
{t:"So let me explain how God orchestrated my relationship with ",p:10,x:90,y:234,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Brad, David, Mac, Mark, and Tai. ",p:10,x:90,y:261,w:258,h:21},
{t:"It all started in the summer of 1995. My best friend, Gary ",p:10,x:120,y:287,w:456,h:21},
{t:"Smith, and I had just left the employment of a national Chris-",p:10,x:90,y:314,w:479,h:21},
{t:"tian youth organization in the UK to begin ministry together ",p:10,x:90,y:341,w:486,h:21},
{t:"in a charity called Big Ideas (nothing to do with Veggie Tales!). ",p:10,x:90,y:368,w:484,h:21},
{t:"For some years before this, we had been running a Christian ",p:10,x:90,y:394,w:487,h:21},
{t:"music festival and had begun a friendship with the main guys ",p:10,x:90,y:421,w:485,h:21},
{t:"in a Christian record company. Ian Hamilton, Dave Withers, ",p:10,x:90,y:448,w:487,h:21},
{t:"and Dave Bruce, major players in the UK scene, started a new ",p:10,x:90,y:474,w:485,h:21},
{t:"company called Alliance and needed some help developing live ",p:10,x:90,y:501,w:484,h:21},
{t:"concerts and touring. They promised to send some opportuni-",p:10,x:90,y:528,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ties our way when Gary and I set out together.",p:10,x:90,y:554,w:358,h:21},
{t:"Our plan for the summer of 1995 was to leave our employ-",p:10,x:120,y:581,w:449,h:21},
{t:"ment in June, spend July and early August on an evangelistic ",p:10,x:90,y:608,w:485,h:21},
{t:"trip around youth camp sites, have a couple of weeks holiday ",p:10,x:90,y:634,w:486,h:21},
{t:"late in August, and then officially begin ministry together in ",p:10,x:90,y:661,w:486,h:21},
{t:"the first week of September.",p:10,x:90,y:688,w:214,h:21},
{t:"Then two things happened that shaped my destiny: first, ",p:10,x:120,y:714,w:457,h:21},
{t:"Gary got ill with a kidney stone and had to return home early ",p:10,x:90,y:741,w:485,h:21},
{t:"from the evangelistic trip. In fact, he ended up in the hospital. ",p:10,x:90,y:768,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Second, Alliance Music called us to ask if we could look after ",p:10,x:90,y:794,w:485,h:21},
{t:"an American band that was coming over to the UK and Europe ",p:10,x:90,y:821,w:484,h:21},
{t:"for a week. Basically they needed a minibus driver to take a ",p:10,x:90,y:848,w:487,h:21},
{t:"band called Newsboys around the UK, Holland, and Germany. ",p:10,x:90,y:874,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   3",p:10,x:16,y:1055,w:181,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:09 AM",p:10,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"4",p:11,x:90,y:943,w:8,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:11,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"I have to admit I’d never heard of them but had it on good ",p:11,x:90,y:101,w:487,h:21},
{t:"authority that they were good and were gaining a great reputa-",p:11,x:90,y:127,w:479,h:21},
{t:"tion. Already Gary and I had decided that he would do more of ",p:11,x:90,y:154,w:484,h:21},
{t:"the management, events, and organizing and that I would do ",p:11,x:90,y:181,w:486,h:21},
{t:"more speaking and evangelism. Had Gary been well, he would ",p:11,x:90,y:207,w:485,h:21},
{t:"have driven Newsboys around, but because we couldn’t turn ",p:11,x:90,y:234,w:487,h:21},
{t:"down such a great opportunity, I found myself escorting them ",p:11,x:90,y:261,w:485,h:21},
{t:"around when I thought I’d be having a few quiet days before ",p:11,x:90,y:288,w:486,h:21},
{t:"starting a new ministry.",p:11,x:90,y:314,w:182,h:21},
{t:"A week on the road with Newsboys was a blast and my first ",p:11,x:120,y:341,w:454,h:21},
{t:"introduction to the nuts and bolts of the Christian music world. ",p:11,x:90,y:368,w:484,h:21},
{t:"I’d been a fan of contemporary Christian music since I was a ",p:11,x:90,y:394,w:486,h:21},
{t:"student in the late ’70s and early ’80s, but now I was experi-",p:11,x:90,y:421,w:479,h:21},
{t:"encing it from the inside. Peter Furler and the rest of the guys ",p:11,x:90,y:448,w:485,h:21},
{t:"of Newsboys really welcomed me, and we shared many plates ",p:11,x:90,y:474,w:485,h:21},
{t:"of “pie and chips” during that week. Newsboys’ management, ",p:11,x:90,y:501,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Wes and Steve Campbell, became very good friends of mine, ",p:11,x:90,y:528,w:487,h:21},
{t:"and Gary recovered enough to run a showcase concert for Al-",p:11,x:90,y:554,w:479,h:21},
{t:"liance with Newsboys as top of the bill.",p:11,x:90,y:581,w:303,h:21},
{t:"Over the next few years, Alliance Music flew Gary and me ",p:11,x:120,y:608,w:455,h:21},
{t:"to the Gospel Music Association conference in Nashville, Ten-",p:11,x:90,y:634,w:480,h:21},
{t:"nessee, to find bands and performers who would relish the op-",p:11,x:90,y:661,w:479,h:21},
{t:"portunity of playing in the UK. Each time we went to Nashville, ",p:11,x:90,y:688,w:484,h:21},
{t:"we would stay with either Wes Campbell or Duncan Phillips, ",p:11,x:90,y:714,w:487,h:21},
{t:"and we got to know Newsboys better and better. Peter Furler ",p:11,x:90,y:741,w:486,h:21},
{t:"would often suggest that they bring me over to the US to work ",p:11,x:90,y:768,w:484,h:21},
{t:"as the road manager, and I kept replying that I was a pastoral/",p:11,x:90,y:794,w:479,h:21},
{t:"speaker-type person, not a management dude! I must admit ",p:11,x:90,y:821,w:488,h:21},
{t:"that my appetite for life on the road in the US was whetted on ",p:11,x:90,y:848,w:485,h:21},
{t:"one occasion when I flew up from Nashville to Chicago to see ",p:11,x:90,y:874,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   4",p:11,x:16,y:1055,w:181,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:09 AM",p:11,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"5",p:12,x:561,y:943,w:8,h:21},
{t:"Set Tis Place on Fire",p:12,x:432,y:41,w:138,h:21},
{t:"Newsboys perform at a Luis Palau youth rally and then trav-",p:12,x:90,y:101,w:479,h:21},
{t:"eled back to Nashville on their tour bus. I slept on the couch ",p:12,x:90,y:127,w:486,h:21},
{t:"in the front lounge of the bus and gazed wide eyed out of the ",p:12,x:90,y:154,w:485,h:21},
{t:"window at the nighttime Chicago skyline and the early morn-",p:12,x:90,y:181,w:480,h:21},
{t:"ing scene on the outskirts of Nashville.",p:12,x:90,y:207,w:299,h:21},
{t:"Then, incredibly, in the summer of 1998, Steve Campbell ",p:12,x:120,y:234,w:457,h:21},
{t:"called and asked me, on Peter Furler’s behalf, if I’d consider ",p:12,x:90,y:261,w:487,h:21},
{t:"coming on the Step Up to the Microphone tour to do some ",p:12,x:90,y:288,w:487,h:21},
{t:"speaking on behalf of Teen Mania and to act as a tour pastor. ",p:12,x:90,y:314,w:485,h:21},
{t:"After a phone conversation with Ron Luce of Teen Mania, a ",p:12,x:90,y:341,w:487,h:21},
{t:"visit to their headquarters in Texas, and a trip to Romania to ",p:12,x:90,y:368,w:486,h:21},
{t:"see one of their mission teams in action, the plan was con-",p:12,x:90,y:394,w:479,h:21},
{t:"firmed.",p:12,x:90,y:421,w:54,h:21},
{t:"So in September 1998, I headed out for the first of two ",p:12,x:120,y:448,w:457,h:21},
{t:"one-month-long stays on the road with Newsboys. At the age ",p:12,x:90,y:474,w:485,h:21},
{t:"of nearly thirty-eight, when most sane people in Christian mu-",p:12,x:90,y:501,w:480,h:21},
{t:"sic were deciding to come off the road, I was embarking on a ",p:12,x:90,y:528,w:486,h:21},
{t:"journey that now eight years later I still have not finished!",p:12,x:90,y:554,w:451,h:21},
{t:"Life on the road with Newsboys was perhaps the most in-",p:12,x:120,y:581,w:449,h:21},
{t:"tense experience I have ever had. I learned so much about my-",p:12,x:90,y:608,w:479,h:21},
{t:"self, about being away from my family, about life on the road, ",p:12,x:90,y:634,w:485,h:21},
{t:"about Christian music, about relying on the Lord, and I saw ",p:12,x:90,y:661,w:487,h:21},
{t:"so much of America—places like Memphis, Los Angeles, Las ",p:12,x:90,y:687,w:487,h:23},
{t:"Vegas, New Orleans, which I had often seen on TV but never ",p:12,x:90,y:714,w:486,h:21},
{t:"in real life. ",p:12,x:90,y:741,w:89,h:21},
{t:"I’m immensely grateful to the guys at Alliance, to Gary ",p:12,x:120,y:768,w:458,h:21},
{t:"Smith, and to Newsboys (especially Steve Campbell, who along ",p:12,x:90,y:794,w:484,h:21},
{t:"with his wife, Simone, looked after me so well) for the op-",p:12,x:90,y:821,w:480,h:21},
{t:"portunities that came my way at this time.  But how does all ",p:12,x:90,y:848,w:487,h:21},
{t:"this connect with Third Day? I hear you ask. Good question! ",p:12,x:90,y:874,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   5",p:12,x:16,y:1055,w:181,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:09 AM",p:12,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"6",p:13,x:90,y:943,w:8,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:13,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"The support act for Newsboys on the first part of the Step Up ",p:13,x:90,y:101,w:486,h:21},
{t:"to the Microphone tour was none other than—you’ve guessed ",p:13,x:90,y:127,w:486,h:23},
{t:"it—Third Day!",p:13,x:90,y:154,w:111,h:23},
{t:"The first mention of Third Day in my journal, dated Sat-",p:13,x:120,y:181,w:449,h:21},
{t:"urday, October 3, 1998, reads: “At another Paramount theme ",p:13,x:90,y:207,w:487,h:21},
{t:"park. Third Day talked me into going on the Top Gun ride with ",p:13,x:90,y:234,w:485,h:21},
{t:"them—a frightening experience.” I have to confess that my fear ",p:13,x:90,y:261,w:484,h:23},
{t:"came not from being with the guys of Third Day but from a ",p:13,x:90,y:288,w:487,h:21},
{t:"deep aversion to theme-park rides. ",p:13,x:90,y:314,w:271,h:21},
{t:"I spoke on the weekend shows of the tour and would be ",p:13,x:120,y:341,w:457,h:21},
{t:"waiting in the wings of the stage while Third Day performed ",p:13,x:90,y:368,w:486,h:21},
{t:"their set. I hadn’t listened to their music before the tour but ",p:13,x:90,y:394,w:487,h:21},
{t:"found that songs like “My Hope Is You,” “Consuming Fire,” ",p:13,x:90,y:421,w:488,h:21},
{t:"and “Peace” really helped me worship the Lord and receive His ",p:13,x:90,y:448,w:485,h:21},
{t:"strength before I went on to speak.",p:13,x:90,y:474,w:268,h:21},
{t:"I met John Poitevent at this time, who became a great ",p:13,x:120,y:501,w:458,h:21},
{t:"friend. On my first night of speaking, John was walking off-",p:13,x:90,y:528,w:479,h:21},
{t:"stage with a guitar (he doubled as a guitar tech), and just be-",p:13,x:90,y:554,w:480,h:21},
{t:"fore I was going on stage, he prayed an awesome prayer for ",p:13,x:90,y:581,w:487,h:21},
{t:"me. I was amazed and remember thinking, “Wow! These Third ",p:13,x:90,y:608,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Day guys must be incredible; even their guitar tech is a mighty ",p:13,x:90,y:634,w:484,h:21},
{t:"man of God.” He was actually Third Day’s full-time road pas-",p:13,x:90,y:661,w:479,h:21},
{t:"tor, and it was he who encouraged me to get to know the band ",p:13,x:90,y:688,w:485,h:21},
{t:"and to spend some time with them on our days off.",p:13,x:90,y:714,w:394,h:21},
{t:"My friendship with Third Day came to fruition in October ",p:13,x:120,y:741,w:456,h:21},
{t:"1998. Newsboys were big into motorbikes and were going to ",p:13,x:90,y:768,w:486,h:21},
{t:"spend some time biking in California and Nevada, so Third ",p:13,x:90,y:794,w:488,h:21},
{t:"Day invited me onto their bus. We bonded on a golf course in ",p:13,x:90,y:821,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Pasadena and in a Thai restaurant in Hollywood! Our friend-",p:13,x:90,y:848,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ship nearly came to a premature end a few days later when I ",p:13,x:90,y:874,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   6",p:13,x:16,y:1055,w:181,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:09 AM",p:13,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"7",p:14,x:561,y:943,w:8,h:21},
{t:"Set Tis Place on Fire",p:14,x:432,y:41,w:138,h:21},
{t:"tried to impress the crowd at a concert with my newly learned ",p:14,x:90,y:101,w:485,h:21},
{t:"American slang, courtesy of Third Day. Great embarrassment ",p:14,x:90,y:127,w:487,h:21},
{t:"for me and for them!  ",p:14,x:90,y:154,w:172,h:21},
{t:"As far as my journal entries go, I joined in a Sunday de-",p:14,x:120,y:181,w:449,h:21},
{t:"votional with Third Day for the first time the day after the Top ",p:14,x:90,y:207,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Gun ride and led my first Bible study with the guys on Tuesday, ",p:14,x:90,y:234,w:484,h:21},
{t:"October 13, 1998, at the invitation of John Poitevent: “Leading ",p:14,x:90,y:261,w:485,h:21},
{t:"a Bible study with Third Day today—supposedly. Didn’t think ",p:14,x:90,y:287,w:486,h:23},
{t:"Newsboys bus would arrive at the venue in time. Got here with ",p:14,x:90,y:314,w:485,h:21},
{t:"twenty minutes to spare, washed and ate, only to find all the ",p:14,x:90,y:341,w:486,h:21},
{t:"guys in Third Day still asleep.”",p:14,x:90,y:368,w:237,h:21},
{t:"The first study I ever shared with Tai, Mac, Mark, David, ",p:14,x:120,y:394,w:457,h:21},
{t:"and Brad was on this verse: “For the kingdom of God is not ",p:14,x:90,y:421,w:487,h:21},
{t:"a matter of talk but of power” (1 Corinthians 4:20 niv). As if ",p:14,x:90,y:447,w:486,h:22},
{t:"to enforce that theme, the daily reading in my own quiet time ",p:14,x:90,y:474,w:485,h:21},
{t:"from a book my wife, Gill, had given me was from Paul’s sec-",p:14,x:90,y:501,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ond letter to the Corinthians: “But we have this treasure in jars ",p:14,x:90,y:527,w:484,h:21},
{t:"of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and ",p:14,x:90,y:554,w:485,h:21},
{t:"not from us” (2 Corinthians 4:7 niv).",p:14,x:90,y:581,w:277,h:22},
{t:"I was homesick, missing my wife and family, aware of the ",p:14,x:120,y:607,w:455,h:21},
{t:"grace she showed in allowing me to travel to the USA, yet I was ",p:14,x:90,y:634,w:484,h:21},
{t:"also conscious that God was beginning to open up a new chap-",p:14,x:90,y:661,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ter of my life and that His power would be all that I needed.",p:14,x:90,y:687,w:463,h:21},
{t:"I spent another two months in the spring of 1999 on the ",p:14,x:120,y:714,w:456,h:21},
{t:"Step Up to the Microphone tour, although Third Day wasn’t ",p:14,x:90,y:741,w:487,h:21},
{t:"in those shows. I also traveled with Newsboys on their Love ",p:14,x:90,y:768,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Liberty Disco tour, which took place inside a giant blow-up air ",p:14,x:90,y:794,w:485,h:21},
{t:"dome in parking lots or state fairgrounds during the spring of ",p:14,x:90,y:821,w:485,h:21},
{t:"2000. I kept in contact with Third Day and even found time to ",p:14,x:90,y:848,w:485,h:21},
{t:"pop into the studio in Nashville when the band was mixing the ",p:14,x:90,y:874,w:484,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   7",p:14,x:16,y:1055,w:181,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:09 AM",p:14,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"8",p:15,x:90,y:943,w:8,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:15,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"Time album. I can vividly remember listening to the finishing ",p:15,x:90,y:101,w:486,h:21},
{t:"touches to “Your Love, Oh Lord” and then going out for a good ",p:15,x:90,y:127,w:484,h:21},
{t:"ol’ barbecue meal together.  The guys first invited me to join ",p:15,x:90,y:154,w:486,h:21},
{t:"them for a few days out on tour towards the end of 2000. By ",p:15,x:90,y:181,w:486,h:21},
{t:"then, John Poitevent had gone back to Atlanta to work with his ",p:15,x:90,y:207,w:484,h:21},
{t:"church, and Third Day was touring the Time album. From then ",p:15,x:90,y:234,w:485,h:21},
{t:"on, I joined them regularly on each of their tours. ",p:15,x:90,y:261,w:387,h:21},
{t:"The contemporary Christian music scene often receives ",p:15,x:120,y:288,w:459,h:21},
{t:"criticism for being a business or for merely mimicking the ",p:15,x:90,y:314,w:489,h:21},
{t:"mainstream music scene or for attempting to create a parallel ",p:15,x:90,y:341,w:486,h:21},
{t:"and “safe” Christian culture away from the real world. And to ",p:15,x:90,y:368,w:485,h:21},
{t:"a certain extent, all of these observations carry some truth. Yet ",p:15,x:90,y:394,w:485,h:21},
{t:"my experience also tells me that Christian music does trans-",p:15,x:90,y:421,w:479,h:21},
{t:"form lives, does communicate with people, does help seekers ",p:15,x:90,y:448,w:487,h:21},
{t:"find faith, and does build up the body of believers. It’s for these ",p:15,x:90,y:474,w:484,h:21},
{t:"reasons that I do what I do with Third Day.",p:15,x:90,y:501,w:331,h:21},
{t:"I often reflect on what I have done to deserve the privi-",p:15,x:120,y:528,w:449,h:21},
{t:"lege of pastoring Third Day. In reality, it’s down to the grace ",p:15,x:90,y:554,w:486,h:21},
{t:"of God because there are thousands of faithful, inspirational, ",p:15,x:90,y:581,w:486,h:21},
{t:"even famous pastors in the US who in human terms should be ",p:15,x:90,y:608,w:485,h:21},
{t:"doing what I do. However, as I reflect, I do believe that part of ",p:15,x:90,y:634,w:485,h:21},
{t:"the reason has been my willingness, ever since God called me ",p:15,x:90,y:661,w:485,h:21},
{t:"to serve Him, to be faithful in the small things. I am reminded ",p:15,x:90,y:688,w:485,h:21},
{t:"of the words of the master in the parable of the talents: “The ",p:15,x:90,y:714,w:486,h:21},
{t:"master was full of praise. ‘Well done, my good and faithful ser-",p:15,x:90,y:741,w:479,h:21},
{t:"vant. You have been faithful in handling this small amount, so ",p:15,x:90,y:768,w:484,h:21},
{t:"now I will give you many more responsibilities. Let’s celebrate ",p:15,x:90,y:794,w:485,h:21},
{t:"together!’” (Matthew 25:21 nlt).",p:15,x:90,y:821,w:242,h:22},
{t:"From my late teens, when I knew God’s call in my life was ",p:15,x:120,y:847,w:455,h:21},
{t:"to share Jesus with others, I have always been excited about ",p:15,x:90,y:874,w:487,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   8",p:15,x:16,y:1055,w:181,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:09 AM",p:15,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"9",p:16,x:561,y:943,w:8,h:21},
{t:"Set Tis Place on Fire",p:16,x:432,y:41,w:138,h:21},
{t:"the opportunity to preach and teach the Word of God, whether ",p:16,x:90,y:101,w:485,h:21},
{t:"to five hundred people or to five people. In fact, the denomina-",p:16,x:90,y:127,w:480,h:21},
{t:"tion in which I grew up sent me around London to preach in ",p:16,x:90,y:154,w:486,h:21},
{t:"many of its dwindling churches. Sometimes I would take other ",p:16,x:90,y:181,w:485,h:21},
{t:"young people with me, and we would outnumber the small ",p:16,x:90,y:207,w:488,h:21},
{t:"congregation we were visiting. Once I preached in a church ",p:16,x:90,y:234,w:487,h:21},
{t:"that had space for eight hundred people, but only a handful ",p:16,x:90,y:261,w:487,h:21},
{t:"were present. Rather than get resentful or despairing, I was ",p:16,x:90,y:288,w:488,h:21},
{t:"always thrilled to give a message I believed the Lord had given ",p:16,x:90,y:314,w:484,h:21},
{t:"me. Over the years I have attempted to keep that same desire ",p:16,x:90,y:341,w:486,h:21},
{t:"to prove faithful in the small things, and I believed that op-",p:16,x:90,y:368,w:479,h:21},
{t:"portunities such as those with Third Day would not have come ",p:16,x:90,y:394,w:485,h:21},
{t:"my way if I hadn’t treated “smaller” responsibilities faithfully. ",p:16,x:90,y:421,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Sometimes people ask me how to become a road pastor, or they ",p:16,x:90,y:448,w:484,h:21},
{t:"tell me that they want to be a famous preacher or a successful ",p:16,x:90,y:474,w:485,h:21},
{t:"singer or worship leader. My advice to them is to start serving ",p:16,x:90,y:501,w:485,h:21},
{t:"the Lord right where they are and learn from being faithful in ",p:16,x:90,y:528,w:485,h:21},
{t:"the small opportunities that will come their way.",p:16,x:90,y:554,w:373,h:21},
{t:"Through the song “Consuming Fire” God gave me much of ",p:16,x:120,y:581,w:455,h:21},
{t:"the vision and direction for a project called Ignite, which over ",p:16,x:90,y:608,w:485,h:21},
{t:"the last six years or so has grown to dominate the ministry I ",p:16,x:90,y:634,w:486,h:21},
{t:"help direct in the UK. Very rarely is there a Third Day concert ",p:16,x:90,y:661,w:485,h:21},
{t:"without the song being sung. Here Mac opens up about “Con-",p:16,x:90,y:688,w:480,h:21},
{t:"suming Fire”:",p:16,x:90,y:714,w:104,h:21},
{t:"I honestly don’t remember exactly how this song started out—I ",p:16,x:90,y:770,w:422,h:22},
{t:"just remember it always being one of our songs. I have ",p:16,x:90,y:796,w:366,h:22},
{t:"always felt this is a great representation of what Tird Day ",p:16,x:90,y:823,w:383,h:22},
{t:"is. It ’s a rock song, yet the lyrics are worship. It ’s a 6/8 song, ",p:16,x:90,y:850,w:387,h:22},
{t:"so there is a “sing-along” feeling to it as well.",p:16,x:90,y:876,w:288,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   9",p:16,x:16,y:1055,w:181,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:10 AM",p:16,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"10",p:17,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:17,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"I got the idea from the verse in Hebrews. I didn’t totally know what it ",p:17,x:90,y:100,w:459,h:22},
{t:"meant when I was writing the song. I took it to mean that God purifes ",p:17,x:90,y:127,w:465,h:22},
{t:"us in the same sense that extreme heat purifes precious metal. But we ",p:17,x:90,y:153,w:466,h:22},
{t:"have to allow God to do that daily so it ’s not just a one-time shot. Te ",p:17,x:90,y:180,w:467,h:22},
{t:"song has lasted the test of time because there is an intensity in the song ",p:17,x:90,y:207,w:477,h:22},
{t:"musically and lyrically asking God to change us and to help us. It starts ",p:17,x:90,y:234,w:464,h:22},
{t:"from a place of brokenness and desperation. We need God to be our ",p:17,x:90,y:260,w:475,h:22},
{t:"Purifer, our Redeemer .",p:17,x:90,y:287,w:151,h:22},
{t:"“Since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be destroyed, let us be ",p:17,x:90,y:314,w:471,h:22},
{t:"thankful and please God by worshiping him with holy fear and awe. For ",p:17,x:90,y:340,w:478,h:22},
{t:"our God is a consuming fre” (Hebrews 12:28–29 nlt).",p:17,x:90,y:367,w:361,h:22},
{t:"Mac Powell, November 2006",p:17,x:366,y:408,w:203,h:23},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   10",p:17,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:10 AM",p:17,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"2",p:18,x:348,y:-45,w:222,h:600},
{t:"-roCkstar-",p:18,x:235,y:641,w:187,h:50},
{t:"i wanna be a rock star",p:18,x:185,y:713,w:292,h:40},
{t:"But, i ain’t got the face",p:18,x:180,y:753,w:304,h:40},
{t:"i wanna be a rock star",p:18,x:187,y:793,w:292,h:40},
{t:"But, i ain’t got what it takes",p:18,x:150,y:834,w:369,h:40},
{t:"Wanna Be a Rock Star",p:18,x:77,y:479,w:492,h:43},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   11",p:18,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:10 AM",p:18,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"12",p:19,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:19,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"When people listen to the song “Rockstar” once, they might ",p:19,x:155,y:100,w:401,h:22},
{t:"not get the story behind the song. But when you get into the ",p:19,x:158,y:127,w:409,h:22},
{t:"song, you see that it ’s about realizing our place in life. We ",p:19,x:158,y:153,w:384,h:22},
{t:"may want to be famous, but God has much more in store for ",p:19,x:151,y:180,w:406,h:22},
{t:"us. God has called us to His purpose that goes way beyond being ",p:19,x:126,y:207,w:445,h:22},
{t:"famous or being a “star .” When I was younger, I defnitely wanted to be a ",p:19,x:90,y:234,w:483,h:22},
{t:"famous singer. Te desire wasn’t so much to be famous, but to be heard. ",p:19,x:90,y:260,w:483,h:22},
{t:"We see entertainers, actors, and musicians who want that fame, but ",p:19,x:90,y:287,w:446,h:22},
{t:"we have learned what ’s even more fulflling than that is to follow God’s ",p:19,x:90,y:314,w:470,h:22},
{t:"purposes.",p:19,x:90,y:340,w:65,h:22},
{t:"Mac Powell, November 2006",p:19,x:366,y:381,w:203,h:23},
{t:"We’re all sitting in the dressing room minutes before Third ",p:19,x:90,y:430,w:484,h:69},
{t:"Day is about to go on stage. It’s San Antonio, Texas, ",p:19,x:143,y:467,w:434,h:21},
{t:"on the LiveWire tour. Suddenly, someone floats the idea of ",p:19,x:90,y:493,w:488,h:21},
{t:"starting the set with a different song than usual. The idea gets ",p:19,x:90,y:520,w:485,h:21},
{t:"kicked around for a while, and Mark suggests the classic “Rock ",p:19,x:90,y:547,w:484,h:21},
{t:"and Roll” by Led Zeppelin. We listen a couple of times on an ",p:19,x:90,y:573,w:486,h:21},
{t:"iPod, people work out the chord progressions, Mac rehearses ",p:19,x:90,y:600,w:487,h:21},
{t:"the lyrics, and it’s going to happen! The crew guys—lights and ",p:19,x:90,y:626,w:484,h:23},
{t:"sound—will be as surprised or bemused as the audience. Then ",p:19,x:90,y:653,w:485,h:23},
{t:"we enter the land of the surreal: I make an offhand comment ",p:19,x:90,y:680,w:486,h:21},
{t:"that the song needs some blues harmonica (I used to play a lit-",p:19,x:90,y:707,w:480,h:21},
{t:"tle a few years back); Geof Barkley enthusiastically agrees, and ",p:19,x:90,y:733,w:484,h:21},
{t:"after a quick audition with Mark playing acoustic guitar, I’ve ",p:19,x:90,y:760,w:486,h:21},
{t:"been recruited for a solo! Ten minutes later I’m walking off the ",p:19,x:90,y:787,w:485,h:21},
{t:"stage to loud applause from the audience, having used Mark’s ",p:19,x:90,y:813,w:485,h:21},
{t:"microphone, shared a solo with Brad, and been introduced to ",p:19,x:90,y:840,w:486,h:21},
{t:"the crowd by Mac. Reaching the anonymity of the backstage ",p:19,x:90,y:867,w:486,h:21},
{t:"area, I think to myself, “Did that really just happen?” I’ve been ",p:19,x:90,y:893,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   12",p:19,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:11 AM",p:19,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"13",p:20,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Wanna Be a Rock Star",p:20,x:426,y:41,w:143,h:21},
{t:"on the stage a few times with the guys doing Q and As, but the ",p:20,x:90,y:101,w:484,h:21},
{t:"San Antonio concert was my one brief episode as a rock star!",p:20,x:90,y:127,w:473,h:21},
{t:"Often people will ask Third Day how they started. Mac and ",p:20,x:120,y:154,w:455,h:21},
{t:"Mark are the best ones to tackle this for us:",p:20,x:90,y:181,w:334,h:21},
{t:"I remember singing in a high school presentation when Mark ",p:20,x:90,y:236,w:406,h:22},
{t:"came up to me aferward. We knew each other from march-",p:20,x:90,y:263,w:400,h:22},
{t:"ing band, but Mark said, “Hey, man, I didn’t know you could ",p:20,x:90,y:289,w:399,h:22},
{t:"sing. Why don’t you come and join our garage band?” ",p:20,x:90,y:316,w:367,h:22},
{t:"Tat started Mark and me playing together. A while later I quit ",p:20,x:90,y:343,w:417,h:22},
{t:"the garage band, but Mark and I decided to form a Christian band. ",p:20,x:90,y:369,w:450,h:22},
{t:"Ten about a year later we played at a church where the youth pastor ",p:20,x:90,y:396,w:472,h:22},
{t:"introduced us to Tai and David. Before too long, we were all involved ",p:20,x:90,y:423,w:469,h:22},
{t:"playing together and recording demos. In fact, I’m prety sure that one ",p:20,x:90,y:450,w:470,h:22},
{t:"or two songs from those demos ended up on our frst album.",p:20,x:90,y:476,w:410,h:22},
{t:"I can also remember when we signed with a small independent label ",p:20,x:90,y:503,w:462,h:22},
{t:"called Gray Dot Records, Mark and I went down to Florida on a pro-",p:20,x:90,y:530,w:458,h:22},
{t:"motional tour, trying to persuade radio stations to play our record. ",p:20,x:90,y:556,w:445,h:22},
{t:"Another strong memory is hearing Brad play guitar for the frst time. He ",p:20,x:90,y:583,w:477,h:22},
{t:"was playing in another band, and we asked him to hang out and play ",p:20,x:90,y:610,w:462,h:22},
{t:"with us and to consider joining Tird Day . “Consuming Fire” was the ",p:20,x:90,y:636,w:448,h:22},
{t:"very frst song we played as a fve piece; it was a magical moment. Ten ",p:20,x:90,y:663,w:479,h:22},
{t:"there was the occasion when we were playing a small church camp and ",p:20,x:90,y:690,w:478,h:22},
{t:"Reunion Records sent two guys along to listen to us. Te president of ",p:20,x:90,y:716,w:465,h:22},
{t:"the company said he wanted to sign us and help us with our career. ",p:20,x:90,y:743,w:453,h:22},
{t:"Tat was a big, big turning point for us.",p:20,x:90,y:770,w:257,h:22},
{t:"Mac Powell, November 2006",p:20,x:366,y:811,w:203,h:23},
{t:"Mark Lee is acknowledged as the band historian and the ",p:20,x:120,y:869,w:457,h:21},
{t:"man with a great memory. So here’s his detailed account of the ",p:20,x:90,y:896,w:484,h:21},
{t:"early days:",p:20,x:90,y:923,w:83,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   13",p:20,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:11 AM",p:20,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"14",p:21,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:21,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"Te frst band Mac and I were in together was an unexpected ",p:21,x:128,y:99,w:417,h:23},
{t:"one—the John McEachern High School Marching Band. He ",p:21,x:151,y:127,w:399,h:22},
{t:"was the drum major, and I played trombone. Although we ",p:21,x:160,y:153,w:390,h:22},
{t:"didn’t know each other extremely well, we hung out at vari-",p:21,x:160,y:180,w:393,h:22},
{t:"ous times playing sports or going over to friends’ houses. I still ",p:21,x:156,y:207,w:414,h:22},
{t:"give him a hard time because one time we were playing football ",p:21,x:140,y:234,w:433,h:22},
{t:"and he tackled me and tore my favorite shirt. Te real story though was ",p:21,x:90,y:260,w:476,h:22},
{t:"why a bright peach-colored shirt that said “Georgetown” on it was my ",p:21,x:90,y:287,w:465,h:22},
{t:"favorite shirt. Another time I remember talking to him at school, and we ",p:21,x:90,y:314,w:476,h:22},
{t:"both said that if we were ever in a band, it would be cool to do what ",p:21,x:90,y:340,w:466,h:22},
{t:"bands like the Black Crowes were doing, as opposed to the pop metal ",p:21,x:90,y:367,w:477,h:22},
{t:"that was dominating the airwaves at the time.",p:21,x:90,y:394,w:296,h:22},
{t:"Toward the end of my senior year in high school, I began to take an ",p:21,x:90,y:420,w:453,h:22},
{t:"interest in playing guitar. I had several friends who played instruments, ",p:21,x:90,y:447,w:465,h:22},
{t:"and many days were spent afer school practicing at someone’s house, ",p:21,x:90,y:474,w:471,h:22},
{t:"although I’m not sure what for. At frst we were trying to get a “demo” ",p:21,x:90,y:500,w:462,h:22},
{t:"together because one of the guys had a “connection” at a local club ",p:21,x:90,y:527,w:454,h:22},
{t:"where we could play. Ten we devised a more serious plan: we’d get ",p:21,x:90,y:554,w:466,h:22},
{t:"a full band together to play for a talent show that was going on at our ",p:21,x:90,y:580,w:466,h:22},
{t:"high school. We had no problem with guitars. Everybody and their ",p:21,x:90,y:607,w:448,h:22},
{t:"brother could play guitar. In fact, we had so many guitars that we would ",p:21,x:90,y:634,w:478,h:22},
{t:"ask one of the guitar guys to slide over to the bass, depending on the ",p:21,x:90,y:660,w:467,h:22},
{t:"song. Drums were easy too. We had a guy who could play drums prety ",p:21,x:90,y:687,w:482,h:22},
{t:"well, and he owned his own PA. But we were having problems coming ",p:21,x:90,y:714,w:473,h:22},
{t:"up with a vocalist. Tat ’s when I remembered Mac.",p:21,x:90,y:740,w:335,h:22},
{t:"Earlier that year, I had sat in the back of the new gym and rolled my eyes ",p:21,x:90,y:767,w:484,h:22},
{t:"during the senior assembly. I don’t remember it being particularly bad, ",p:21,x:90,y:794,w:471,h:22},
{t:"just a lot of teachers speaking and telling us about our responsibilities ",p:21,x:90,y:820,w:463,h:22},
{t:"and how we were going to be starting college soon. I started to tune ",p:21,x:90,y:847,w:464,h:22},
{t:"it out afer a while. Ten they announced that Mac Powell was going ",p:21,x:90,y:874,w:458,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   14",p:21,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:11 AM",p:21,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"15",p:22,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Wanna Be a Rock Star",p:22,x:426,y:41,w:143,h:21},
{t:"to be singing. Tat got my atention. I knew Mac as drum-major-Mac, ",p:22,x:90,y:100,w:459,h:22},
{t:"the fun-loving, easygoing guy I hung out with in band. I thought about ",p:22,x:90,y:127,w:467,h:22},
{t:"that torn Georgetown T-shirt I had at home. Ten he started to sing. I ",p:22,x:90,y:153,w:463,h:22},
{t:"think it was some Phil Collins song, but it really didn’t mater what he was ",p:22,x:90,y:180,w:483,h:22},
{t:"singing—I was blown away. ",p:22,x:90,y:207,w:184,h:22},
{t:"With that image in mind, I approached Mac afer class one day. We had ",p:22,x:90,y:234,w:480,h:22},
{t:"the long and involved conversation so typical of guys in high school:",p:22,x:90,y:260,w:453,h:22},
{t:"ME:  ",p:22,x:112,y:302,w:33,h:22},
{t:"Dude, do you want to be in this band we’re geting together ",p:22,x:161,y:302,w:408,h:22},
{t:"for the talent show?",p:22,x:161,y:329,w:132,h:22},
{t:"MAC:  I can’t play guitar .",p:22,x:112,y:363,w:165,h:22},
{t:"ME: ",p:22,x:112,y:397,w:29,h:22},
{t:"No, man. We want you to sing.",p:22,x:161,y:397,w:202,h:22},
{t:"MAC: OK.",p:22,x:112,y:431,w:75,h:22},
{t:"Tat was prety much it. I wish I could say it involved a big fanfare and a ",p:22,x:90,y:473,w:476,h:22},
{t:"light beaming down out of the sky, but I’d be lying.",p:22,x:90,y:499,w:335,h:22},
{t:"Te talent show never happened. But we did have a chance to play ",p:22,x:90,y:526,w:456,h:22},
{t:"for a school function right before graduation. It was a song that Mac ",p:22,x:90,y:553,w:453,h:22},
{t:"had writen called “Te Next Rainy Day,” and it was prety good. We ",p:22,x:90,y:579,w:454,h:22},
{t:"did a few “shows, ” if that ’s what you ’d call them, that summer. Tey were ",p:22,x:90,y:606,w:473,h:22},
{t:"really bad. We would play at somebody",p:22,x:90,y:633,w:268,h:22},
{t:"’",p:22,x:359,y:633,w:2,h:22},
{t:"s house who was having a ",p:22,x:360,y:633,w:175,h:22},
{t:"party. We’d get together a few days before and try to learn about thirty ",p:22,x:90,y:659,w:482,h:22},
{t:"songs. And then a couple weeks later there’d be another party, and ",p:22,x:90,y:686,w:454,h:22},
{t:"we’d get together to learn a diferent batch of thirty songs. We might ",p:22,x:90,y:713,w:461,h:22},
{t:"have been prety good had we ever played the same songs twice.",p:22,x:90,y:739,w:445,h:22},
{t:"One night I was over at Mac ’s house, and we’d just had kind of a heated ",p:22,x:90,y:766,w:482,h:22},
{t:"conversation with the other guys because Mac wasn’t comfortable with ",p:22,x:90,y:793,w:476,h:22},
{t:"the lyrics of the songs we were singing. Afer the other guys lef, I asked ",p:22,x:90,y:819,w:477,h:22},
{t:"Mac if he wanted to start a Christian band. I’m not even really sure I ",p:22,x:90,y:846,w:450,h:22},
{t:"knew what a Christian band was. For several weeks we both had been ",p:22,x:90,y:873,w:470,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   15",p:22,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:11 AM",p:22,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"16",p:23,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:23,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"geting serious about our faith. We had many conversations with friends ",p:23,x:90,y:100,w:479,h:22},
{t:"about God, and Mac had even begun reading his Bible regularly. And ",p:23,x:90,y:127,w:469,h:22},
{t:"in that moment at Mac ’s house, it just made sense for us to sing about ",p:23,x:90,y:153,w:464,h:22},
{t:"these kinds of things as well.",p:23,x:90,y:180,w:183,h:22},
{t:"So that was the beginning of the band. It was Mac singing, me on guitar, ",p:23,x:90,y:207,w:478,h:22},
{t:"and our friend Billy Wilkins on keyboard. We would play wherever ",p:23,x:90,y:234,w:448,h:22},
{t:"we could: churches, youth groups, or retreats. We weren’t extremely ",p:23,x:90,y:260,w:455,h:22},
{t:"serious about it yet—we didn’t even have a name, but I think one thing ",p:23,x:90,y:287,w:477,h:22},
{t:"that set us apart early on was that we wrote our own songs; Mac was ",p:23,x:90,y:314,w:460,h:22},
{t:"coming into his own as a lyricist. We started out as an acoustic group, ",p:23,x:90,y:340,w:461,h:22},
{t:"partly because we were into many of the bands that were doing the ",p:23,x:90,y:367,w:459,h:22},
{t:"“unplugged” thing at the time, but mainly out of necessity. We didn’t ",p:23,x:90,y:394,w:454,h:22},
{t:"have a drummer or bass player. Afer a few months, we felt it was time ",p:23,x:90,y:420,w:467,h:22},
{t:"to start looking. We tried a few diferent guys, but it never worked out. ",p:23,x:90,y:447,w:472,h:22},
{t:"Ten we did a show at my church called HollyFest. Another group, the ",p:23,x:90,y:474,w:473,h:22},
{t:"Bullard Band, opened up, and there was a young drummer and a bass ",p:23,x:90,y:500,w:469,h:22},
{t:"player in that band. One of the guitarists talked to us afer the show and ",p:23,x:90,y:527,w:481,h:22},
{t:"told us that he was the youth pastor of those two guys. He suggested ",p:23,x:90,y:554,w:464,h:22},
{t:"that we give the drummer, David, a call because he had a recording rig ",p:23,x:90,y:580,w:475,h:22},
{t:"in his basement and might help us record a demo.",p:23,x:90,y:607,w:333,h:22},
{t:"Mark Lee",p:23,x:501,y:648,w:68,h:23},
{t:"David’s got his own slant on those important early days ",p:23,x:120,y:707,w:457,h:21},
{t:"as well:",p:23,x:90,y:733,w:58,h:21},
{t:"Te very frst day I met Mac and Mark, in late 1992, they came ",p:23,x:143,y:789,w:420,h:22},
{t:"over to my house and just started showing me the songs ",p:23,x:156,y:815,w:380,h:22},
{t:"they",p:23,x:160,y:842,w:28,h:22},
{t:"’",p:23,x:189,y:842,w:2,h:22},
{t:"d writen. Immediately I thought, “Wow, there’s some-",p:23,x:191,y:842,w:353,h:22},
{t:"thing here that ’s diferent than any litle start-up band or new ",p:23,x:158,y:869,w:406,h:22},
{t:"songwriters.” Another standout moment was the concert when ",p:23,x:150,y:895,w:418,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   16",p:23,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:12 AM",p:23,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"17",p:24,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Wanna Be a Rock Star",p:24,x:426,y:41,w:143,h:21},
{t:"the Reunion Records guys showed up. I knew they were going to sign ",p:24,x:90,y:100,w:468,h:22},
{t:"us; I felt very early on that everything was going to work out.",p:24,x:90,y:127,w:400,h:22},
{t:"David Carr",p:24,x:491,y:168,w:78,h:23},
{t:"Everything certainly did work out for Third Day, and they ",p:24,x:120,y:227,w:455,h:21},
{t:"have become one of the highest-profile and highly respect-",p:24,x:90,y:253,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ed Christian bands of all time. Their albums and tours have ",p:24,x:90,y:280,w:487,h:21},
{t:"consistently drawn plaudits and fans aplenty. Life on the road ",p:24,x:90,y:307,w:485,h:21},
{t:"is certainly a privilege, but it isn’t always the glamorous life ",p:24,x:90,y:333,w:487,h:21},
{t:"some people expect it to be. In the summer of 2005 the band ",p:24,x:90,y:360,w:486,h:21},
{t:"flew over to the UK for a series of concerts. I was to meet them ",p:24,x:90,y:387,w:484,h:21},
{t:"early in the morning in the arrival lounge of Gatwick Airport ",p:24,x:90,y:413,w:486,h:21},
{t:"in London. I began to get worried when passengers from the ",p:24,x:90,y:440,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Atlanta flight had finished coming through the arrival gate and ",p:24,x:90,y:467,w:484,h:21},
{t:"there was no sign of band or crew. My stress levels rose when I ",p:24,x:90,y:493,w:484,h:21},
{t:"heard an ominous announcement over the public-address sys-",p:24,x:90,y:520,w:479,h:21},
{t:"tem: “Will Nigel James, meeting a party from Atlanta, please ",p:24,x:90,y:547,w:486,h:21},
{t:"ring Immigration on the internal phone system.”",p:24,x:90,y:573,w:373,h:21},
{t:"After just a short conversation with the immigration of-",p:24,x:120,y:600,w:449,h:21},
{t:"ficial, it was apparent that Third Day didn’t have the correct ",p:24,x:90,y:627,w:487,h:21},
{t:"work permits; in fact the band didn’t have any permits, and ",p:24,x:90,y:653,w:487,h:21},
{t:"without them they weren’t going to be let into the country. ",p:24,x:90,y:680,w:487,h:21},
{t:"Tired and confused, the band had asked the official to put out ",p:24,x:90,y:707,w:485,h:21},
{t:"a call to me in case I was in the arrival lounge and could as-",p:24,x:90,y:733,w:479,h:21},
{t:"sist. Placing the phone back in its cradle, I faced a moment of ",p:24,x:90,y:760,w:485,h:21},
{t:"panic: Third Day was about to play a concert in the UK for the ",p:24,x:90,y:787,w:485,h:21},
{t:"first time—on my patch, my turf—and we hadn’t organized ",p:24,x:90,y:813,w:487,h:23},
{t:"the work permits. What a disaster! I called my colleague Gary ",p:24,x:90,y:840,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Smith, who in turn called the agency we had paid to arrange ",p:24,x:90,y:867,w:486,h:21},
{t:"the permits. After a while he called me back; the agency had ",p:24,x:90,y:893,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   17",p:24,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:12 AM",p:24,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"18",p:25,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:25,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"blundered big time, and the application for permits was still on ",p:25,x:90,y:101,w:484,h:21},
{t:"a desk in their office. I endured another difficult conversation ",p:25,x:90,y:127,w:485,h:21},
{t:"with the immigration guy, who assured me in no uncertain ",p:25,x:90,y:154,w:488,h:21},
{t:"terms that the band wasn’t coming in without permits and that, ",p:25,x:90,y:181,w:484,h:21},
{t:"as far as he was concerned, they’d be on the next flight to ",p:25,x:90,y:207,w:488,h:21},
{t:"Atlanta. To make matters worse, he told me that his daughter ",p:25,x:90,y:234,w:486,h:21},
{t:"sang in the band of a prominent UK worship leader and that, ",p:25,x:90,y:261,w:486,h:21},
{t:"personally, he’d never heard of Third Day and doubted that ",p:25,x:90,y:288,w:488,h:21},
{t:"they were genuine! ",p:25,x:90,y:314,w:152,h:21},
{t:"Shortly before this, I’d written a book about “outrageous ",p:25,x:120,y:341,w:457,h:21},
{t:"prayer” and had spent a whole tour with the guys learning ",p:25,x:90,y:368,w:488,h:21},
{t:"how to be bolder in our prayer life. So while Gary was doing ",p:25,x:90,y:394,w:486,h:21},
{t:"the same in Cardiff, I stood in the arrival lounge at Gatwick ",p:25,x:90,y:421,w:487,h:21},
{t:"Airport, boldly praying that God would work a solution to al-",p:25,x:90,y:448,w:480,h:21},
{t:"low the band to enter the UK. Only five minutes or so after ",p:25,x:90,y:474,w:487,h:21},
{t:"my very negative conversation with the immigration official, I ",p:25,x:90,y:501,w:485,h:21},
{t:"called him again, ready to beg him to help, when before I could ",p:25,x:90,y:528,w:484,h:21},
{t:"even open my mouth, he said that the guys would be allowed ",p:25,x:90,y:554,w:485,h:21},
{t:"in but that we needed to make sure we had permits arranged ",p:25,x:90,y:581,w:486,h:21},
{t:"for a week’s time when they came back into the UK from the ",p:25,x:90,y:608,w:486,h:21},
{t:"mainland European shows! I don’t think Mac, David, Tai, Brad, ",p:25,x:90,y:634,w:484,h:21},
{t:"and Mark had ever been so pleased to see me, and I was sure ",p:25,x:90,y:661,w:486,h:21},
{t:"relieved to see them.",p:25,x:90,y:688,w:158,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   18",p:25,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:13 AM",p:25,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"19",p:26,x:552,y:944,w:17,h:21},
{t:"SUCCESS",p:26,x:90,y:347,w:131,h:48},
{t:"How do we cope with success? How do ",p:26,x:90,y:422,w:424,h:36},
{t:"we defne success? Where do we think ",p:26,x:90,y:458,w:419,h:37},
{t:"that success comes from?",p:26,x:90,y:494,w:286,h:36},
{t:"The real problem with success is pride. Like the person who wrote the ",p:26,x:105,y:592,w:438,h:21},
{t:"book entitled Humility and How I Achieved It, sometimes we are last to ",p:26,x:90,y:619,w:454,h:22},
{t:"see it as our problem. We all are vulnerable to pride. Humility is very ",p:26,x:90,y:646,w:455,h:21},
{t:"diffcult to achieve, and the process is often painful.",p:26,x:90,y:672,w:334,h:21},
{t:"How should we judge the success of a tour?",p:26,x:105,y:699,w:279,h:21},
{t:"Audience numbers?",p:26,x:156,y:733,w:125,h:21},
{t:"•	",p:26,x:126,y:732,w:13,h:23},
{t:"Units sold?",p:26,x:156,y:760,w:71,h:21},
{t:"•	",p:26,x:126,y:759,w:13,h:23},
{t:"Audience approval?",p:26,x:156,y:787,w:125,h:21},
{t:"•	",p:26,x:126,y:785,w:13,h:23},
{t:"Money made?",p:26,x:156,y:813,w:86,h:21},
{t:"•	",p:26,x:126,y:812,w:13,h:23},
{t:"Concert reviews?",p:26,x:156,y:840,w:107,h:21},
{t:"•	",p:26,x:126,y:839,w:13,h:23},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   19",p:26,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:14 AM",p:26,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"20",p:27,x:90,y:944,w:17,h:21},
{t:"None of these things are wrong in themselves.",p:27,x:135,y:100,w:295,h:21},
{t:"Or we could judge the success of a tour on relationships with",p:27,x:120,y:127,w:389,h:21},
{t:"Fellow band members",p:27,x:186,y:169,w:139,h:21},
{t:"•	",p:27,x:156,y:168,w:13,h:23},
{t:"Other bands",p:27,x:186,y:195,w:78,h:21},
{t:"•	",p:27,x:156,y:194,w:13,h:23},
{t:"Crew",p:27,x:186,y:222,w:31,h:21},
{t:"•	",p:27,x:156,y:221,w:13,h:23},
{t:"Promoters",p:27,x:186,y:249,w:64,h:21},
{t:"•	",p:27,x:156,y:248,w:13,h:23},
{t:"Fans",p:27,x:186,y:275,w:30,h:21},
{t:"•	",p:27,x:156,y:274,w:13,h:23},
{t:"Wives",p:27,x:186,y:302,w:36,h:21},
{t:"•	",p:27,x:156,y:301,w:13,h:23},
{t:"God",p:27,x:186,y:329,w:24,h:21},
{t:"•	",p:27,x:156,y:328,w:13,h:23},
{t:"In his book At the Crossroads: An Insider’s Look at the Past, Present, ",p:27,x:135,y:370,w:439,h:22},
{t:"and Future of Contemporary Christian Music, Charlie Peacock quotes ",p:27,x:120,y:397,w:455,h:22},
{t:"Philip Yancey quoting Helmut Thielicke about Nazi Germany: “The wor-",p:27,x:120,y:424,w:449,h:21},
{t:"ship of success is generally the form of idol worship the devil cultivates ",p:27,x:120,y:450,w:453,h:21},
{t:"most assiduously.”",p:27,x:120,y:477,w:121,h:21},
{t:"Peacock also has much to say about worldliness:",p:27,x:135,y:511,w:312,h:21},
{t:"The term worldliness represents thinking and doing in ways ",p:27,x:157,y:575,w:384,h:22},
{t:"contrary to God’s ways. Worldliness is connected to what the ",p:27,x:157,y:602,w:388,h:22},
{t:"Bible refers to as the “basic principles of the world” . . . the ",p:27,x:157,y:629,w:385,h:22},
{t:"ideas and systems of the world may have succeeded in trans-",p:27,x:157,y:656,w:395,h:22},
{t:"forming us more than we’ve transformed the world . . . worldli-",p:27,x:157,y:682,w:401,h:22},
{t:"ness exhibits self-centeredness.",p:27,x:157,y:709,w:205,h:22},
{t:"Fame, Fame, fatal Fame ",p:27,x:135,y:795,w:203,h:24},
{t:"it can play hideous tricks on the brain ",p:27,x:135,y:823,w:311,h:24},
{t:"but still I’d rather be Famous ",p:27,x:135,y:851,w:239,h:24},
{t:"than righteous or holy, any day",p:27,x:135,y:880,w:252,h:24},
{t:"—Morrissey",p:27,x:386,y:908,w:101,h:25},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   20",p:27,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:15 AM",p:27,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"21",p:28,x:552,y:944,w:17,h:21},
{t:"The Pharisee in Luke 18 and Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 4 both faced ",p:28,x:105,y:100,w:439,h:21},
{t:"problems of success and pride. In different situations, each felt he had ",p:28,x:90,y:127,w:453,h:21},
{t:"it made, that he was a great success. Both of them had diffculty real-",p:28,x:90,y:154,w:450,h:21},
{t:"izing they needed to be humble.",p:28,x:90,y:180,w:202,h:21},
{t:"Two men went to the Temple to pray. One was a Pharisee, and ",p:28,x:105,y:237,w:396,h:21},
{t:"the other was a dishonest tax collector. The proud Pharisee ",p:28,x:105,y:264,w:379,h:21},
{t:"stood by himself and prayed this prayer: “I thank you, God, ",p:28,x:105,y:290,w:378,h:21},
{t:"that I am not a sinner like everyone else, especially like that ",p:28,x:105,y:317,w:386,h:21},
{t:"tax collector over there! For I never cheat, I don’t sin, I don’t ",p:28,x:105,y:344,w:385,h:21},
{t:"commit adultery, I fast twice a week, and I give you a tenth of ",p:28,x:105,y:370,w:397,h:21},
{t:"my income.” ",p:28,x:105,y:397,w:83,h:21},
{t:"But the tax collector stood at a distance and dared not even ",p:28,x:105,y:431,w:386,h:21},
{t:"lift his eyes to heaven as he prayed. Instead, he beat his chest ",p:28,x:105,y:458,w:403,h:21},
{t:"in sorrow, saying, “O God, be merciful to me, for I am a sinner.” ",p:28,x:105,y:485,w:408,h:21},
{t:"I tell you, this sinner, not the Pharisee, returned home justifed ",p:28,x:105,y:511,w:402,h:21},
{t:"before God. For the proud will be humbled, but the humble will ",p:28,x:105,y:538,w:403,h:21},
{t:"be honored. —Luke 18:10–14 nlt",p:28,x:105,y:565,w:212,h:21},
{t:"The Pharisee made the terrible mistake of believing he was better ",p:28,x:105,y:621,w:440,h:21},
{t:"than other people—success often does that to people. He thought he ",p:28,x:90,y:648,w:454,h:21},
{t:"was superior to the tax collectors, the thieves, and the adulterers of ",p:28,x:90,y:675,w:455,h:21},
{t:"this world. He also made the elementary error of believing that God was ",p:28,x:90,y:701,w:453,h:21},
{t:"interested in outward show rather than inward attitude. In short, he ",p:28,x:90,y:728,w:455,h:21},
{t:"was proud of his successful position, and that got in the way of God.",p:28,x:90,y:755,w:438,h:21},
{t:"Nebuchadnezzar, living six hundred years before the Pharisee, had ",p:28,x:105,y:781,w:440,h:21},
{t:"even more reason to be proud. He was a king who ruled over many ",p:28,x:90,y:808,w:456,h:21},
{t:"people, and that made it hard for him to submit to anyone, even to the ",p:28,x:90,y:835,w:454,h:21},
{t:"Lord Almighty. Nebuchadnezzar’s mistake was that he believed his own ",p:28,x:90,y:861,w:453,h:21},
{t:"publicity. He took credit for his position, his power, his wealth, and his ",p:28,x:90,y:888,w:454,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   21",p:28,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:16 AM",p:28,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"22",p:29,x:90,y:944,w:17,h:21},
{t:"possessions. He spoke all the right words about God in public: “I want ",p:29,x:120,y:100,w:454,h:21},
{t:"you all to know about the miraculous signs and wonders the Most High ",p:29,x:120,y:127,w:453,h:21},
{t:"God has performed for me. How great are his signs, how powerful his ",p:29,x:120,y:154,w:454,h:21},
{t:"wonders!” (Daniel 4:2–3 nlt). But deep down his heart was greedy, ",p:29,x:120,y:180,w:456,h:22},
{t:"self-centered, and self-gratifying. The Lord warned Nebuchadnezzar in ",p:29,x:120,y:207,w:453,h:21},
{t:"a dream and told him that only after a time of great suffering would ",p:29,x:120,y:234,w:455,h:21},
{t:"he learn to truly worship the Lord and understand the Lord’s greatness ",p:29,x:120,y:260,w:454,h:21},
{t:"and his own unworthiness. ",p:29,x:120,y:287,w:175,h:21},
{t:"Daniel, on the other hand, had a different perspective on life and on ",p:29,x:135,y:314,w:439,h:21},
{t:"success: “The purpose of this decree is that the whole world may un-",p:29,x:120,y:340,w:449,h:22},
{t:"derstand that the Most High rules over the kingdoms of the world and ",p:29,x:120,y:367,w:454,h:21},
{t:"gives them to anyone he chooses—even to the lowliest of humans” ",p:29,x:120,y:394,w:456,h:21},
{t:"(Daniel 4:17 nlt). Daniel’s faithful acts of private worship demon-",p:29,x:120,y:420,w:450,h:21},
{t:"strated that he practiced what he preached. For Nebuchadnezzar, the ",p:29,x:120,y:447,w:454,h:21},
{t:"road to realizing that God was responsible for his success had several ",p:29,x:120,y:474,w:454,h:21},
{t:"stopping-off points: madness, humility, faith, and recognition of the ",p:29,x:120,y:500,w:455,h:21},
{t:"glory of the Lord Almighty.",p:29,x:120,y:527,w:166,h:21},
{t:"There is a simple but painful road to humility, and according to Jesus ",p:29,x:135,y:554,w:438,h:21},
{t:"it is a conscious choice; we have to humble ourselves: “I tell you, this ",p:29,x:120,y:580,w:454,h:21},
{t:"sinner, not the Pharisee, returned home justifed before God. For the ",p:29,x:120,y:607,w:455,h:21},
{t:"proud will be humbled, but the humble will be honored” (Luke 18:14 ",p:29,x:120,y:634,w:455,h:21},
{t:"nlt). We have to see ourselves in a true perspective, seeing our weak-",p:29,x:120,y:660,w:449,h:21},
{t:"nesses as well as strengths and letting God take His rightful place. In ",p:29,x:120,y:687,w:454,h:21},
{t:"a world where everyone tells us to look after number one, this may be ",p:29,x:120,y:714,w:454,h:21},
{t:"tricky, but the starting point is to recognize the depth of our pride.",p:29,x:120,y:740,w:421,h:21},
{t:"We all need to develop our full potential—God can make our lives ",p:29,x:135,y:767,w:440,h:21},
{t:"both prosperous and meaningful—but we always must remember ",p:29,x:120,y:794,w:458,h:21},
{t:"God’s part, depend on Him, and offer Him due credit and thanksgiv-",p:29,x:120,y:820,w:449,h:21},
{t:"ing. Of course, in the Christian music industry we face a battle to be ",p:29,x:120,y:847,w:454,h:21},
{t:"humble because the whole system is geared toward bands and artists ",p:29,x:120,y:874,w:454,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   22",p:29,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:17 AM",p:29,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"23",p:30,x:552,y:944,w:17,h:21},
{t:"becoming “stars.” The apostle Paul was prepared to be “the scum of ",p:30,x:90,y:100,w:454,h:21},
{t:"the earth, the refuse of the world” so that the gospel could be preached ",p:30,x:90,y:127,w:453,h:21},
{t:"(1 Corinthians 4:13 niv). Then he declared, “I am crucifed with Christ” ",p:30,x:90,y:154,w:454,h:21},
{t:"(Galatians 2:20 kjv). How do you think Paul would have coped with be-",p:30,x:90,y:180,w:450,h:21},
{t:"ing a Christian rock musician, given the above statements?",p:30,x:90,y:207,w:381,h:21},
{t:"“It is one thing to follow God’s way of service if ",p:30,x:105,y:293,w:403,h:24},
{t:"you are regarded as a hero, but quite another ",p:30,x:105,y:321,w:385,h:24},
{t:"thing if the road marked out for you by God ",p:30,x:105,y:350,w:370,h:24},
{t:"requires becoming a doormat under other people’s ",p:30,x:105,y:378,w:423,h:24},
{t:"feet. . . . Are you ready to be sacrifced like that? ",p:30,x:105,y:406,w:414,h:24},
{t:"Are you ready to be less than a mere drop in the ",p:30,x:105,y:435,w:409,h:24},
{t:"bucket—to be so totally insignifcant that no one ",p:30,x:105,y:463,w:404,h:24},
{t:"remembers you even if they think of those you ",p:30,x:105,y:491,w:390,h:24},
{t:"served? Are you willing to be poured out and ",p:30,x:105,y:520,w:384,h:24},
{t:"exhausted?”—Oswald Chambers",p:30,x:105,y:548,w:276,h:25},
{t:"“If I could give you information of my life, it would ",p:30,x:105,y:636,w:425,h:24},
{t:"be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability ",p:30,x:105,y:665,w:416,h:24},
{t:"has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed ",p:30,x:105,y:693,w:420,h:24},
{t:"paths to do in his service what he has done in her. ",p:30,x:105,y:721,w:414,h:24},
{t:"And if I could tell you all, you would see how God ",p:30,x:105,y:750,w:424,h:24},
{t:"has done all and I nothing. I have worked hard, ",p:30,x:105,y:778,w:388,h:24},
{t:"very hard—that is all, and I have never refused ",p:30,x:105,y:806,w:393,h:24},
{t:"God anything.”—Florence Nightingale",p:30,x:105,y:835,w:316,h:25},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   23",p:30,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:18 AM",p:30,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"24",p:31,x:90,y:944,w:17,h:21},
{t:"In an industry where we are pampered, honored, and treated as valu-",p:31,x:135,y:100,w:435,h:21},
{t:"able commodities by executives and audiences alike, the challenge is ",p:31,x:120,y:127,w:454,h:21},
{t:"accepting that we have no right to be treated like that at all. However ",p:31,x:120,y:154,w:454,h:21},
{t:"hard it may be, we need to recognize that our time, our possessions, our ",p:31,x:120,y:180,w:453,h:21},
{t:"money, our status, and even our decision making can’t be of paramount ",p:31,x:120,y:207,w:453,h:21},
{t:"importance; in fact none of these things really “belong” to us at all. ",p:31,x:120,y:234,w:437,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   24",p:31,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:19 AM",p:31,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"25",p:32,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Wanna Be a Rock Star",p:32,x:426,y:41,w:143,h:21},
{t:"During the years of traveling with Third Day, including ",p:32,x:120,y:101,w:458,h:21},
{t:"the harmonica-playing episode, I’ve had a few “rock star” mo-",p:32,x:90,y:127,w:480,h:21},
{t:"ments. All of them have been simply because I’ve been with ",p:32,x:90,y:154,w:487,h:21},
{t:"the band in the right place at the right time. I’ve found myself ",p:32,x:90,y:181,w:485,h:21},
{t:"meeting actors, musicians, TV personalities, and sportsmen; ",p:32,x:90,y:207,w:488,h:21},
{t:"and I’ve stayed in some great hotels, eaten in fine restaurants, ",p:32,x:90,y:234,w:485,h:21},
{t:"and been driven around in a limo. For example, there was the ",p:32,x:90,y:261,w:485,h:21},
{t:"time in LA when I found myself, along with the band, having ",p:32,x:90,y:288,w:485,h:21},
{t:"lunch in the house of actor Thom Wilson, who played the char-",p:32,x:90,y:314,w:480,h:21},
{t:"acter Biff Tannen in the Back to the Future films. In Atlanta I ",p:32,x:90,y:341,w:486,h:21},
{t:"had a pass into the VIP enclosure at a U2 show, and while in ",p:32,x:90,y:368,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Portland I had a guided tour around the Nike campus.",p:32,x:90,y:394,w:414,h:21},
{t:"Perhaps the rock star thing was rubbing off on me too ",p:32,x:120,y:421,w:458,h:21},
{t:"much in Houston on the Wherever You Are tour when we par-",p:32,x:90,y:448,w:480,h:21},
{t:"ticipated in the Gulu Walk. This was a three-mile walk around ",p:32,x:90,y:474,w:485,h:21},
{t:"a downtown Houston park to identify with the thousands of ",p:32,x:90,y:501,w:487,h:21},
{t:"children in Uganda who each night have to travel to a safe ",p:32,x:90,y:528,w:487,h:21},
{t:"place to sleep. I was wearing a black Third Day cap and a ",p:32,x:90,y:554,w:488,h:21},
{t:"pair of see-through sunglasses. Tai ribbed me about my “Bono” ",p:32,x:90,y:581,w:484,h:21},
{t:"look, and Mac reckoned I looked more rock ’n’ roll than the ",p:32,x:90,y:608,w:487,h:21},
{t:"band. The sunglasses (very cheap, by the way) stayed in the ",p:32,x:90,y:634,w:487,h:21},
{t:"bottom of my case for the remainder of the tour!",p:32,x:90,y:661,w:375,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   25",p:32,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:20 AM",p:32,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"26",p:33,x:90,y:944,w:17,h:21},
{t:"How Does a Road Pastor ",p:33,x:120,y:97,w:271,h:36},
{t:"Measure Success? ",p:33,x:120,y:133,w:208,h:36},
{t:"It’ s a constant challenge for me to evaluate my role as road pastor ",p:33,x:135,y:231,w:440,h:21},
{t:"and particularly to attempt to quantify the work I do. Just as I was leav-",p:33,x:120,y:258,w:449,h:21},
{t:"ing Atlanta at the end of the Wherever You Are tour, Mac came up to me ",p:33,x:120,y:285,w:453,h:22},
{t:"and told me that even though I might not always realize it or the band ",p:33,x:120,y:312,w:454,h:21},
{t:"might not often express it, God was using me to help them immensely. ",p:33,x:120,y:338,w:454,h:21},
{t:"The other guys in the band actually remind me of this occasionally, but ",p:33,x:120,y:365,w:453,h:21},
{t:"the “success” of a road pastor is a diffcult thing to defne.",p:33,x:120,y:392,w:377,h:21},
{t:"A band member can judge his day’s work on his performance in a ",p:33,x:135,y:418,w:440,h:21},
{t:"concert, a lighting engineer by the slickness of his light show, a pro-",p:33,x:120,y:445,w:450,h:21},
{t:"moter by the number of tickets sold, a merchandiser by the per-head ",p:33,x:120,y:472,w:455,h:21},
{t:"dollar amount spent in the evening, a local crew guy by the speed and ",p:33,x:120,y:498,w:454,h:21},
{t:"accuracy of the load-in and load-out of equipment. But what about the ",p:33,x:120,y:525,w:453,h:21},
{t:"road pastor?",p:33,x:120,y:552,w:80,h:21},
{t:"We were in Los Angeles early in 2006; our day had been full of busi-",p:33,x:135,y:578,w:434,h:21},
{t:"ness and social activity. Third Day’s booking agent was in town, and ",p:33,x:120,y:605,w:455,h:21},
{t:"understandably there had been loads of business chats. A few mo-",p:33,x:120,y:632,w:449,h:21},
{t:"ments before show time I paused the conversation in order to say a ",p:33,x:120,y:658,w:455,h:21},
{t:"short prayer for the concert that evening. After I had said “amen,” the ",p:33,x:120,y:685,w:454,h:21},
{t:"booking agent jokingly laughed, “Your work is done for the day now.” It ",p:33,x:120,y:712,w:454,h:21},
{t:"was a humorous comment, but it did send me away to refect on what ",p:33,x:120,y:738,w:454,h:21},
{t:"else God was asking me to accomplish, besides a short prayer just ",p:33,x:120,y:765,w:456,h:21},
{t:"before each concert started.",p:33,x:120,y:792,w:179,h:21},
{t:"Here’s how I defne how successful I might be in the role of road ",p:33,x:135,y:818,w:441,h:21},
{t:"pastor:",p:33,x:120,y:845,w:44,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   26",p:33,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:20 AM",p:33,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"27",p:34,x:552,y:944,w:17,h:21},
{t:"—PRAYER AND BIBLE STUDY",p:34,x:90,y:100,w:205,h:24},
{t:"I strongly believe that the Lord speaks more powerfully into the lives ",p:34,x:105,y:136,w:439,h:21},
{t:"of the band than I am able to. So I can simply be a catalyst for that to ",p:34,x:90,y:162,w:454,h:21},
{t:"happen. Therefore I put effort into gathering the guys together regularly ",p:34,x:90,y:189,w:453,h:21},
{t:"for Bible study and prayer times. Some of the Bible studies are repro-",p:34,x:90,y:216,w:449,h:21},
{t:"duced in this book.",p:34,x:90,y:242,w:121,h:21},
{t:"—FoCUS",p:34,x:90,y:295,w:67,h:24},
{t:"During a long and arduous tour, it’s not always easy to remain totally ",p:34,x:105,y:331,w:438,h:21},
{t:"focused on the ministry God has called us to. So now and again I am ",p:34,x:90,y:357,w:454,h:21},
{t:"able to help refocus the band on its calling and mission. Often that is ",p:34,x:90,y:384,w:454,h:21},
{t:"an easier thing to do because I am one step removed from the intensity ",p:34,x:90,y:411,w:453,h:21},
{t:"of being in the band itself.",p:34,x:90,y:437,w:170,h:21},
{t:"—PASToRAL CARE",p:34,x:90,y:489,w:134,h:24},
{t:"Being friends with all the guys in the band means that friendly ",p:34,x:105,y:525,w:442,h:21},
{t:"conversations—sometimes with two or three, sometimes one to one—",p:34,x:90,y:552,w:450,h:21},
{t:"are a regular part of touring life. I’ve always been a good talker, but ",p:34,x:90,y:579,w:455,h:21},
{t:"traveling with Third Day, I have learned to become a good listener! Tour ",p:34,x:90,y:605,w:453,h:21},
{t:"manager Jenn constantly reminds me that I’m the right person in the ",p:34,x:90,y:632,w:454,h:21},
{t:"right place at the right time because of the relationship stuff I am able ",p:34,x:90,y:659,w:453,h:21},
{t:"to help with.",p:34,x:90,y:685,w:79,h:21},
{t:"—THE CoNCERT ITSELF",p:34,x:90,y:738,w:169,h:24},
{t:"Our constant prayer on the road is that the Lord will use Third Day ",p:34,x:105,y:774,w:440,h:21},
{t:"in a concert setting to minister into people’s lives. Graciously, God an-",p:34,x:90,y:800,w:450,h:21},
{t:"swers that prayer night after night. Being just a small cog in that wheel ",p:34,x:90,y:827,w:453,h:21},
{t:"and seeing the presence of God impacting people’s lives remind me of ",p:34,x:90,y:854,w:454,h:21},
{t:"the worth of my role. ",p:34,x:90,y:880,w:134,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   27",p:34,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:22 AM",p:34,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"28",p:35,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:35,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"I’ve been in many situations where Third Day, either as ",p:35,x:120,y:101,w:458,h:21},
{t:"a band or as individuals, has been misrepresented, misunder-",p:35,x:90,y:127,w:480,h:21},
{t:"stood, or unfairly judged. It goes with the territory, I guess, ",p:35,x:90,y:154,w:487,h:21},
{t:"for both artists in the public eye and Christians involved in ",p:35,x:90,y:181,w:487,h:21},
{t:"ministry. People will always be looking for you to step out of ",p:35,x:90,y:207,w:486,h:21},
{t:"line, do or say the wrong thing, and they don’t always treat ",p:35,x:90,y:234,w:487,h:21},
{t:"you with the grace and mercy with which they would want ",p:35,x:90,y:261,w:487,h:21},
{t:"to be treated themselves. I can remember well a group of in-",p:35,x:90,y:288,w:479,h:21},
{t:"tense young Christian adults protesting outside of a Third Day ",p:35,x:90,y:314,w:485,h:21},
{t:"concert. They claimed that Third Day was “of the devil,” and ",p:35,x:90,y:341,w:486,h:21},
{t:"to justify their ridiculous and hurtful accusation, they stated ",p:35,x:90,y:368,w:487,h:21},
{t:"that drums played the devil’s rhythms and that the guys in ",p:35,x:90,y:394,w:488,h:21},
{t:"Third Day didn’t even have Christian haircuts or wear Christian ",p:35,x:90,y:421,w:484,h:21},
{t:"clothes. I couldn’t reason with them as to what exactly they ",p:35,x:90,y:448,w:487,h:21},
{t:"meant by “Christian haircuts” and “Christian clothes.”",p:35,x:90,y:474,w:415,h:21},
{t:"It’s out of circumstances such as these that the song “How ",p:35,x:120,y:501,w:455,h:21},
{t:"Do You Know” came about:",p:35,x:90,y:528,w:213,h:21},
{t:"-How Do You know-",p:35,x:179,y:620,w:300,h:49},
{t:"so many times i’ve lost my step",p:35,x:129,y:690,w:402,h:40},
{t:"But never lost my way",p:35,x:192,y:729,w:278,h:40},
{t:"How do you know, how do you know",p:35,x:125,y:770,w:414,h:40},
{t:"when i don’t know myself",p:35,x:167,y:809,w:331,h:40},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   28",p:35,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:23 AM",p:35,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"29",p:36,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Wanna Be a Rock Star",p:36,x:426,y:41,w:143,h:21},
{t:"Criticism can be a nasty thing. We’ve all been on the giving ",p:36,x:90,y:100,w:395,h:22},
{t:"and receiving ends of it, and even for the giver it ’s never ",p:36,x:90,y:127,w:379,h:22},
{t:"prety. However, it ’s amazing how critical believers can be of ",p:36,x:90,y:153,w:403,h:22},
{t:"one another at times. It ’s as if when we receive salvation, we ",p:36,x:90,y:180,w:399,h:22},
{t:"are given the authority to hold everyone around us accountable ",p:36,x:90,y:207,w:434,h:22},
{t:"to our own personal convictions and ideals. Sometimes we can give of ",p:36,x:90,y:234,w:477,h:22},
{t:"the impression that we “know it all”!",p:36,x:90,y:260,w:233,h:22},
{t:"Dealing with criticism is never easy, and the song “How Do You Know ” ",p:36,x:90,y:287,w:468,h:22},
{t:"asks the question: How do you know what I’m supposed to be doing? ",p:36,x:90,y:314,w:473,h:22},
{t:"Te tone of the chorus lyrics might give of a bit of a sharp atitude, but ",p:36,x:90,y:340,w:476,h:22},
{t:"the real expression of the song is a simple, honest question: How do ",p:36,x:90,y:366,w:457,h:23},
{t:"you know? It ’s not to say that the line between sin and righteousness ",p:36,x:90,y:393,w:460,h:22},
{t:"needs to be blurred, but ofentimes there is more than one righteous ",p:36,x:90,y:420,w:466,h:22},
{t:"or godly response or action to take. For example: Do I take this job ",p:36,x:90,y:447,w:448,h:22},
{t:"or that job? Should we put our kids in public school or homeschool ",p:36,x:90,y:473,w:458,h:22},
{t:"them? Should we take our music to the mainstream audience or stay ",p:36,x:90,y:500,w:458,h:22},
{t:"where it ’s safe? Tese are just a few examples of questions we need to ",p:36,x:90,y:527,w:473,h:22},
{t:"work out with God individually. Our job as fellow believers is to pray ",p:36,x:90,y:554,w:462,h:22},
{t:"for one another and ask God to impart His wisdom Himself to His saints. ",p:36,x:90,y:580,w:484,h:22},
{t:"Te high horse of legalism and piousness needs to be led to the water ",p:36,x:90,y:607,w:473,h:22},
{t:"and drowned. When that happens, the freedom of God’s grace as ",p:36,x:90,y:634,w:446,h:22},
{t:"expressed through the church will change the face of our culture.",p:36,x:90,y:660,w:431,h:22},
{t:"Mac Powell, on the song “How Do You Know ”",p:36,x:256,y:701,w:313,h:23},
{t:"We live in a hero-worshiping generation where we would ",p:36,x:120,y:760,w:456,h:21},
{t:"love for someone to do all our spiritual disciplines for us. Like ",p:36,x:90,y:787,w:485,h:21},
{t:"a superstar of whom we can say, “I wish I was like him.” Or a ",p:36,x:90,y:813,w:485,h:21},
{t:"rock star we can admire from afar and believe is perfect in ev-",p:36,x:90,y:840,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ery way.  Yet the disciples Jesus chose were a bunch of failures, ",p:36,x:90,y:867,w:484,h:21},
{t:"doubters, ordinary people; but God used them anyway! They ",p:36,x:90,y:893,w:487,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   29",p:36,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:23 AM",p:36,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"30",p:37,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:37,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"simply began to look more to Jesus than to their own circum-",p:37,x:90,y:101,w:480,h:21},
{t:"stances, making a choice to be Jesus people rather than being ",p:37,x:90,y:127,w:485,h:21},
{t:"defined by anything else.",p:37,x:90,y:154,w:194,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   30",p:37,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:23 AM",p:37,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"3",p:38,x:352,y:-45,w:222,h:600},
{t:"Come Together",p:38,x:206,y:479,w:363,h:43},
{t:"-Come togetHer-",p:38,x:180,y:615,w:290,h:52},
{t:"we’ve got to come together",p:38,x:157,y:689,w:341,h:40},
{t:"’Cause in the end ",p:38,x:224,y:721,w:223,h:47},
{t:"we can make it-alright",p:38,x:176,y:764,w:308,h:49},
{t:"we’ve got to brave the weather",p:38,x:140,y:813,w:383,h:40},
{t:"through all of the storms",p:38,x:173,y:852,w:318,h:40},
{t:"we’ve got to come together",p:38,x:163,y:892,w:341,h:40},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   31",p:38,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:24 AM",p:38,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"32",p:39,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:39,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"Third Day’s current road manager, Jenn, always reminds me ",p:39,x:90,y:91,w:485,h:69},
{t:"that she believes I turn up on the road at exactly the right ",p:39,x:120,y:127,w:455,h:21},
{t:"time, and this confirms to her that God is in control. Looking ",p:39,x:90,y:154,w:486,h:21},
{t:"back I can see this pattern and how the Lord acts as my travel ",p:39,x:90,y:181,w:485,h:21},
{t:"agent. I’ll sit down with the touring schedule and my diary ",p:39,x:90,y:207,w:488,h:21},
{t:"open and begin to ask God for wisdom for the upcoming tour. ",p:39,x:90,y:234,w:485,h:21},
{t:"When will I arrive, and to which city will I fly? When will I ",p:39,x:90,y:261,w:487,h:21},
{t:"leave the tour? What will be my route home? At which strate-",p:39,x:90,y:288,w:480,h:21},
{t:"gic concerts or events do I need to be present? What priorities ",p:39,x:90,y:314,w:485,h:21},
{t:"in my family and ministry life in the UK must take precedence, ",p:39,x:90,y:341,w:484,h:21},
{t:"and which will I have to miss? I’m not too popular when I’ve ",p:39,x:90,y:368,w:486,h:21},
{t:"been away from family birthdays or social events! Yet it does ",p:39,x:90,y:394,w:486,h:21},
{t:"seem that I have the habit of being on the road with Third Day ",p:39,x:90,y:421,w:485,h:21},
{t:"at the right time. ",p:39,x:90,y:448,w:134,h:21},
{t:"Toward the end of the Wherever You Are tour, it became ",p:39,x:120,y:474,w:456,h:21},
{t:"apparent that the guys were in a transitional stage as far as ",p:39,x:90,y:501,w:487,h:21},
{t:"management went. They felt that they needed to change man-",p:39,x:90,y:528,w:479,h:21},
{t:"agement companies, and the band had arranged meetings with ",p:39,x:90,y:554,w:484,h:21},
{t:"a couple of prospective new companies. I managed to get to ",p:39,x:90,y:581,w:487,h:21},
{t:"the first meeting, but although we’d tried every flight option, ",p:39,x:90,y:608,w:486,h:21},
{t:"I missed meeting up with the second management team. How-",p:39,x:90,y:634,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ever, an even bigger challenge was to unfold.",p:39,x:90,y:661,w:349,h:21},
{t:"My task, should I choose to accept it—in the words of Mis-",p:39,x:120,y:687,w:449,h:23},
{t:"sion Impossible—was to get all the guys in the band together ",p:39,x:90,y:714,w:486,h:23},
{t:"in the same place at the same time, without distraction, for ",p:39,x:90,y:741,w:487,h:21},
{t:"long enough to seek God’s guidance and to hear the thoughts ",p:39,x:90,y:768,w:486,h:21},
{t:"of each member so that a decision about management could ",p:39,x:90,y:794,w:487,h:21},
{t:"be made. With time on the tour running out, and some family ",p:39,x:90,y:821,w:485,h:21},
{t:"members out on the road with us, the task did feel pretty impos-",p:39,x:90,y:848,w:480,h:21},
{t:"sible. Eventually we rented a room at the back of a restaurant ",p:39,x:90,y:874,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   32",p:39,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:24 AM",p:39,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"33",p:40,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Come Together",p:40,x:465,y:41,w:105,h:21},
{t:"for a brunch together only to arrive and find they had let other ",p:40,x:90,y:101,w:484,h:21},
{t:"customers use it. Swiftly moving to another nearby restaurant, ",p:40,x:90,y:127,w:485,h:21},
{t:"we grabbed a table in the public area with me quietly praying ",p:40,x:90,y:154,w:485,h:21},
{t:"that the meeting would not become loud or contentious or that ",p:40,x:90,y:181,w:484,h:21},
{t:"a bunch of Third Day fans would not spot us. None of my fears ",p:40,x:90,y:207,w:484,h:21},
{t:"were realized, and what was a difficult meeting to arrange ac-",p:40,x:90,y:234,w:479,h:21},
{t:"tually became a meeting where consensus, enthusiasm, and a ",p:40,x:90,y:261,w:486,h:21},
{t:"real excitement about the future quickly overcame us all. It ",p:40,x:90,y:288,w:488,h:21},
{t:"reminded me of a few years before. . . .",p:40,x:90,y:314,w:301,h:21},
{t:"It’s Oklahoma City, and we’re on the Come Together and ",p:40,x:120,y:341,w:457,h:21},
{t:"Worship tour. For weeks the band has been discussing future ",p:40,x:90,y:368,w:486,h:21},
{t:"vision and direction. Now we have found time to sit out in a ",p:40,x:90,y:394,w:486,h:21},
{t:"park and spend all afternoon talking, dreaming, praying, and ",p:40,x:90,y:421,w:486,h:21},
{t:"asking God for wisdom about the next step for Third Day. The ",p:40,x:90,y:448,w:485,h:21},
{t:"conversations and direction of that afternoon lead to the Wire ",p:40,x:90,y:474,w:485,h:21},
{t:"album, and we spend much time considering how the band ",p:40,x:90,y:501,w:488,h:21},
{t:"could reach a wider audience and, especially, get their music ",p:40,x:90,y:528,w:486,h:21},
{t:"heard outside the walls of the Christian community. ",p:40,x:90,y:554,w:403,h:21},
{t:"Many Christian bands have attempted to “go mainstream”",p:40,x:120,y:581,w:459,h:21},
{t:"and have done so with different motives. Often they have been",p:40,x:90,y:608,w:490,h:21},
{t:"misunderstood—“selling out” or “going secular",p:40,x:90,y:634,w:371,h:23},
{t:",” “losing their ",p:40,x:455,y:634,w:122,h:21},
{t:"passion for Jesus,” and other such phrases being leveled at them.",p:40,x:90,y:661,w:491,h:21},
{t:"I’m not in a position to comment on other bands, but I can very",p:40,x:90,y:688,w:491,h:21},
{t:"clearly remember the conversations the guys of Third Day and",p:40,x:90,y:714,w:490,h:21},
{t:"I had sitting on the grass that afternoon in Oklahoma City",p:40,x:90,y:741,w:457,h:21},
{t:". We ",p:40,x:535,y:741,w:40,h:21},
{t:"saw reaching outside the church and into the mainstream as a",p:40,x:90,y:768,w:490,h:21},
{t:"mission opportunity . It wasn’t just about selling more albums or",p:40,x:90,y:794,w:488,h:21},
{t:"playing bigger concerts —in fact successful Christian bands that",p:40,x:90,y:821,w:486,h:23},
{t:"move out of the Christian-music genre often end up starting",p:40,x:90,y:848,w:490,h:21},
{t:"again with small album sales and low-k ey promotional tours or ",p:40,x:90,y:874,w:485,h:21},
{t:"support slots to established mainstream bands.",p:40,x:90,y:901,w:358,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   33",p:40,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:24 AM",p:40,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"34",p:41,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:41,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"Six of us sitting in a circle on a grassy embankment at-",p:41,x:120,y:101,w:449,h:21},
{t:"tracted some strange looks, but the topics of our conversation ",p:41,x:90,y:127,w:485,h:21},
{t:"were important ones. How would lyrics need to adapt, if at all, ",p:41,x:90,y:154,w:485,h:21},
{t:"for a wider audience? What would Mac, already a superbly ",p:41,x:90,y:181,w:488,h:21},
{t:"accomplished communicator, say between songs to a wider au-",p:41,x:90,y:207,w:479,h:21},
{t:"dience? Would the guys be prepared to play support slots for ",p:41,x:90,y:234,w:486,h:21},
{t:"mainstream artists? Did they realize that stepping outside the ",p:41,x:90,y:261,w:486,h:21},
{t:"walls of the church meant that prayer and Bible study didn’t ",p:41,x:90,y:288,w:486,h:21},
{t:"become less important but more important? How would we ex-",p:41,x:90,y:314,w:479,h:21},
{t:"plain to faithful fans the heart of the band for this new direc-",p:41,x:90,y:341,w:480,h:21},
{t:"tion? How would we deal with Christians who might misunder-",p:41,x:90,y:368,w:480,h:21},
{t:"stand what the band believed God was calling them to do? We ",p:41,x:90,y:394,w:485,h:21},
{t:"look back to that afternoon in Oklahoma City and remember it ",p:41,x:90,y:421,w:485,h:21},
{t:"as a crucial time when God not only spoke to us but also gave ",p:41,x:90,y:448,w:485,h:21},
{t:"us a sense of unity of purpose and an excitement about the fu-",p:41,x:90,y:474,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ture that could only have been from the Holy Spirit. There was ",p:41,x:90,y:501,w:485,h:21},
{t:"a genuine thrill about being on this journey together. ",p:41,x:90,y:528,w:415,h:21},
{t:"Years later, toward the end of the Wherever You Are tour, ",p:41,x:120,y:554,w:456,h:21},
{t:"we were reminded about those feelings. The band was think-",p:41,x:90,y:581,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ing about a change of management and was looking to move ",p:41,x:90,y:608,w:486,h:21},
{t:"into a new season of ministry. Meetings and discussions in the ",p:41,x:90,y:634,w:485,h:21},
{t:"middle of a busy tour were proving difficult, and at times ten-",p:41,x:90,y:661,w:480,h:21},
{t:"sions were running a little bit higher than normal. Yet at the ",p:41,x:90,y:688,w:486,h:21},
{t:"right time we were able to find a few hours to meet in a res-",p:41,x:90,y:714,w:479,h:21},
{t:"taurant and seek a unified vision. With remarkable ease and in ",p:41,x:90,y:741,w:485,h:21},
{t:"a short space of time, there was consensus, enthusiasm, peace, ",p:41,x:90,y:768,w:485,h:21},
{t:"and faith about the future. ",p:41,x:90,y:794,w:209,h:21},
{t:"Like most guys, I like hanging out with other guys, espe-",p:41,x:120,y:821,w:450,h:21},
{t:"cially brothers in Christ; and some of my all-time-favorite “guy ",p:41,x:90,y:848,w:484,h:21},
{t:"times” have been with Mac, Mark, Tai, David, Brad, and, over ",p:41,x:90,y:874,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   34",p:41,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:24 AM",p:41,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"35",p:42,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Come Together",p:42,x:465,y:41,w:105,h:21},
{t:"the years, keyboard players Geof Barkley and Scotty Wilbanks. ",p:42,x:90,y:101,w:484,h:21},
{t:"Third Day has been together for well over twelve years, and a ",p:42,x:90,y:127,w:485,h:21},
{t:"band doesn’t survive that long unless there is a genuine feeling ",p:42,x:90,y:154,w:484,h:21},
{t:"of friendship, even brotherhood, present. Traveling to the US a ",p:42,x:90,y:181,w:485,h:21},
{t:"couple of times every year is easy for me because I genuinely ",p:42,x:90,y:207,w:486,h:21},
{t:"look forward to meeting up with close friends. ",p:42,x:90,y:234,w:362,h:21},
{t:"Even when I was on the road with Newsboys and Third ",p:42,x:120,y:261,w:457,h:21},
{t:"Day was the support act, I would often spend days off with ",p:42,x:90,y:288,w:487,h:21},
{t:"Third Day. In fact, I can remember one memorable occasion in ",p:42,x:90,y:314,w:485,h:21},
{t:"St. Louis when we all played golf together. I hadn’t played for ",p:42,x:90,y:341,w:485,h:21},
{t:"a few years, and using rented clubs I completely missed-hit a ",p:42,x:90,y:368,w:486,h:21},
{t:"tee-shot that flew off at an angle at the speed of a bullet and ",p:42,x:90,y:394,w:486,h:21},
{t:"hit the front of a public transport bus with a loud noise. Des-",p:42,x:90,y:421,w:479,h:21},
{t:"perately trying to redeem the situation, I mentioned that most ",p:42,x:90,y:448,w:485,h:21},
{t:"bad golfers couldn’t hit the side of a bus, but at least I’d hit the ",p:42,x:90,y:474,w:484,h:21},
{t:"front of a bus! In those days all the guys in Third Day hacked ",p:42,x:90,y:501,w:485,h:21},
{t:"around on the golf course, but that’s no longer the case. There ",p:42,x:90,y:528,w:485,h:21},
{t:"have been other developments too since those earlier days, as ",p:42,x:90,y:554,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Mac explains.",p:42,x:90,y:581,w:106,h:21},
{t:"-CrY out to Jesus-",p:42,x:192,y:659,w:299,h:54},
{t:"when you’re lonely ",p:42,x:229,y:732,w:243,h:40},
{t:"and it feels like the whole world ",p:42,x:133,y:760,w:439,h:55},
{t:"is falling on you",p:42,x:246,y:811,w:202,h:40},
{t:"You just reach out",p:42,x:244,y:851,w:208,h:40},
{t:"You just cry out to Jesus",p:42,x:207,y:893,w:285,h:40},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   35",p:42,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:25 AM",p:42,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"36",p:43,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:43,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"We have come along way since we frst started, and we have ",p:43,x:150,y:100,w:409,h:22},
{t:"been through a lot as individuals and as a band during the ",p:43,x:158,y:127,w:393,h:22},
{t:"eleven-plus years we’ve been together. We have grown from ",p:43,x:158,y:153,w:412,h:22},
{t:"young bachelors with hardly a care in the world into happily ",p:43,x:156,y:180,w:405,h:22},
{t:"married “mature” men with many children and responsibilities. ",p:43,x:141,y:207,w:410,h:22},
{t:"Te one thing I have grown to realize is that not only do I have burdens ",p:43,x:90,y:234,w:481,h:22},
{t:"and responsibilities, but also I am able to see and understand that oth-",p:43,x:90,y:260,w:467,h:22},
{t:"ers have the same burdens and trials. When you are younger, you know ",p:43,x:90,y:287,w:481,h:22},
{t:"that burdens are there, but you can’t fully understand their impact until ",p:43,x:90,y:314,w:472,h:22},
{t:"you are older. As a band, we have had many friends and family mem-",p:43,x:90,y:340,w:459,h:22},
{t:"bers who have experienced signifcant hardships and loss over the past ",p:43,x:90,y:367,w:478,h:22},
{t:"couple of years, so a song like “Cry Out to Jesus” was a natural extension ",p:43,x:90,y:394,w:480,h:22},
{t:"of what we have been going through. In each verse of the song, there ",p:43,x:90,y:420,w:468,h:22},
{t:"are specifc people in my mind—each line I sing is directly connected ",p:43,x:90,y:447,w:468,h:22},
{t:"with someone I know. My hope is that you are also able to connect ",p:43,x:90,y:474,w:452,h:22},
{t:"personally with each verse through your own experiences. Not only do ",p:43,x:90,y:500,w:479,h:22},
{t:"we all know these people, but also we are these people. In those times ",p:43,x:90,y:527,w:477,h:22},
{t:"of trial, I hope we can remember that we can fnd our strength, peace, ",p:43,x:90,y:554,w:469,h:22},
{t:"and hope when we cry out to Jesus.",p:43,x:90,y:580,w:239,h:22},
{t:"Mac Powell, talking about the song “Cry Out to Jesus”",p:43,x:211,y:621,w:358,h:23},
{t:"Of course, the friendship and bond between the guys in ",p:43,x:120,y:672,w:458,h:21},
{t:"Third Day started long before I came on the scene, and these ",p:43,x:90,y:699,w:486,h:21},
{t:"friendships have lasted the test of time. When the guys are at ",p:43,x:90,y:726,w:486,h:21},
{t:"home in Atlanta, they quite rightly devote time to their wives ",p:43,x:90,y:753,w:485,h:21},
{t:"and children, but out on the road they enjoy each other’s com-",p:43,x:90,y:779,w:479,h:21},
{t:"pany. Let me take you through a typical day in the life of a ",p:43,x:90,y:806,w:487,h:21},
{t:"touring band—but we’ll start our tour after the concert.",p:43,x:90,y:832,w:429,h:23},
{t:"Once the band leaves the stage—to high fives and congrat-",p:43,x:120,y:859,w:449,h:23},
{t:"ulations all around—they’ll head back to the dressing room. ",p:43,x:90,y:886,w:487,h:23},
{t:"This is a special time, made even more special by the after-",p:43,x:90,y:912,w:480,h:23},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   36",p:43,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:26 AM",p:43,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"37",p:44,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Come Together",p:44,x:465,y:41,w:105,h:21},
{t:"show food that Jenn, the road manager, has ordered. In be-",p:44,x:90,y:101,w:479,h:21},
{t:"tween consuming mouthfuls of food, taking showers, packing ",p:44,x:90,y:127,w:486,h:21},
{t:"suitcases, and handing in-ear monitors back to the road crew, ",p:44,x:90,y:154,w:485,h:21},
{t:"the guys review the show and listen to each other share how ",p:44,x:90,y:181,w:486,h:21},
{t:"they feel the concert went. Most often this time is a reflection ",p:44,x:90,y:207,w:485,h:21},
{t:"on a job well done, with some observations for minor adjust-",p:44,x:90,y:234,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ments on the coming nights. Occasionally friends and well-",p:44,x:90,y:261,w:480,h:21},
{t:"wishers will pop their heads around the door, but normally this ",p:44,x:90,y:288,w:484,h:21},
{t:"is band-only time: I’m privileged to be a part of this, not least ",p:44,x:90,y:314,w:485,h:21},
{t:"because I get to share in the food!",p:44,x:90,y:341,w:262,h:21},
{t:"Pretty soon conversation turns to what we’ll do once we ",p:44,x:120,y:368,w:457,h:21},
{t:"get back onto the tour bus: it might be watching a DVD of ",p:44,x:90,y:394,w:487,h:21},
{t:"tonight’s show or a music DVD one of the guys has recently ",p:44,x:90,y:421,w:487,h:21},
{t:"purchased; sometimes it might be catching up on a must-see ",p:44,x:90,y:448,w:486,h:21},
{t:"TV series, and often the guys will introduce me to their latest ",p:44,x:90,y:474,w:486,h:21},
{t:"favorite movie (being from the UK, I always get to see the lat-",p:44,x:90,y:501,w:479,h:21},
{t:"est releases late!).  Now and then one or two of the guys will ",p:44,x:90,y:528,w:486,h:21},
{t:"want a more involved conversation about something, so they’ll ",p:44,x:90,y:554,w:484,h:21},
{t:"either stay in the dressing room as late as possible or head out ",p:44,x:90,y:581,w:485,h:21},
{t:"to the bus quickly. ",p:44,x:90,y:608,w:147,h:21},
{t:"When the crew members who travel with the band have ",p:44,x:120,y:634,w:457,h:21},
{t:"finished their responsibilities and the bus driver, Champ, has ",p:44,x:90,y:661,w:487,h:21},
{t:"arrived from his rest in a hotel, the bus is ready to roll, and we ",p:44,x:90,y:688,w:485,h:21},
{t:"drive off into the night onto the next venue. Unless the movie ",p:44,x:90,y:714,w:485,h:21},
{t:"is really gripping, people begin to drift off to their bunks or ",p:44,x:90,y:741,w:487,h:21},
{t:"perhaps to watch something else in the rear lounge of the bus. I ",p:44,x:90,y:768,w:484,h:21},
{t:"could spend this whole chapter just listing great late-night bus ",p:44,x:90,y:794,w:485,h:21},
{t:"memories with Third Day, but tonight I’m off early to my bunk. ",p:44,x:90,y:821,w:484,h:21},
{t:"I’ll see you in the morning.",p:44,x:90,y:848,w:208,h:21},
{t:"The guys get up at varying times on the morning of a ",p:44,x:120,y:874,w:458,h:21},
{t:"concert. Some will be up very early to do radio interviews; one ",p:44,x:90,y:901,w:484,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   37",p:44,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:26 AM",p:44,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"38",p:45,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:45,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"or two of us might head off to the golf course with Brad, or if ",p:45,x:90,y:101,w:485,h:21},
{t:"it’s summer, Mac and Mark will make sure we visit a baseball ",p:45,x:90,y:127,w:486,h:21},
{t:"stadium.",p:45,x:90,y:154,w:65,h:21},
{t:"The crew guys will have been working hard all day in prep-",p:45,x:120,y:181,w:449,h:21},
{t:"aration for tonight’s show, and sometimes the band itself will ",p:45,x:90,y:207,w:486,h:21},
{t:"have a sound check in the middle of the afternoon. Generally ",p:45,x:90,y:234,w:486,h:21},
{t:"we’ll gather back together around the time of the evening meal. ",p:45,x:90,y:261,w:484,h:21},
{t:"After we’ve eaten, we’ll make time and space for a devotion, ",p:45,x:90,y:288,w:486,h:21},
{t:"and we’ll pray for the concert that night. The members of Third ",p:45,x:90,y:314,w:484,h:21},
{t:"Day are always concerned that the concert won’t be “just an-",p:45,x:90,y:341,w:480,h:21},
{t:"other show,” but that each night will be unique. The devotional ",p:45,x:90,y:368,w:484,h:21},
{t:"time gives us an opportunity to pray for each other as well. ",p:45,x:90,y:394,w:463,h:21},
{t:"Oftentimes Tai slips out because he’ll be speaking on stage ",p:45,x:120,y:421,w:455,h:21},
{t:"on behalf of World Vision or Invisible Children. Back in the ",p:45,x:90,y:448,w:487,h:21},
{t:"dressing room, he puts on his cowboy hat; Mac does some vo-",p:45,x:90,y:474,w:480,h:21},
{t:"cal warm-ups; David makes us all laugh with his fantastic im-",p:45,x:90,y:501,w:479,h:21},
{t:"personations of characters from movies we’ve been watching; ",p:45,x:90,y:528,w:486,h:21},
{t:"and final choices for stage clothes are made. We join hands for ",p:45,x:90,y:554,w:484,h:21},
{t:"one final prayer, and then there is a knock at the door. One of ",p:45,x:90,y:581,w:485,h:21},
{t:"the tour management people is ready to escort the guys to the ",p:45,x:90,y:608,w:485,h:21},
{t:"side of the stage, and tonight’s show is only minutes away. ",p:45,x:90,y:634,w:459,h:21},
{t:"I’ll either watch the concert near the monitor engineer at ",p:45,x:120,y:661,w:456,h:21},
{t:"the side of the stage or from the farthest seat possible. Way up ",p:45,x:90,y:688,w:485,h:21},
{t:"in the back of the balcony is a good place to get an overview ",p:45,x:90,y:714,w:486,h:21},
{t:"of the sound and lighting and to keep an eye on how the crowd ",p:45,x:90,y:741,w:484,h:21},
{t:"is enjoying the show.",p:45,x:90,y:768,w:162,h:21},
{t:"One of the most significant times we’ve had together in our ",p:45,x:120,y:794,w:454,h:21},
{t:"devotions was when we looked at the theme of “Outrageous ",p:45,x:90,y:821,w:487,h:21},
{t:"Prayer.” Back in Cardiff, Wales, my friend Carl Brettle had in-",p:45,x:90,y:848,w:480,h:21},
{t:"troduced me to the concept, which God then used powerfully ",p:45,x:90,y:874,w:486,h:21},
{t:"among Third Day during one tour.",p:45,x:90,y:901,w:264,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   38",p:45,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:26 AM",p:45,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"39",p:46,x:552,y:944,w:17,h:21},
{t:"oUTRAGEoUS PRAYER",p:46,x:90,y:353,w:308,h:48},
{t:"outrageous prayer is simply praying in ",p:46,x:90,y:429,w:426,h:36},
{t:"faith to the Lord and expecting to see ",p:46,x:90,y:465,w:414,h:36},
{t:"Him answer.",p:46,x:90,y:501,w:131,h:35},
{t:"It springs from the biblical reality that when believers combine to-",p:46,x:105,y:599,w:435,h:21},
{t:"gether in prayer they bring God’s power to bear and they can be assured ",p:46,x:90,y:626,w:453,h:21},
{t:"of Christ’s presence:",p:46,x:90,y:652,w:130,h:21},
{t:"I also tell you this: If two of you agree down here on earth ",p:46,x:105,y:709,w:368,h:21},
{t:"concerning anything you ask, my Father in heaven will do it for ",p:46,x:105,y:736,w:404,h:21},
{t:"you. For where two or three gather together because they are ",p:46,x:105,y:762,w:389,h:21},
{t:"mine, I am there among them. —Matthew 18:19–20 nlt",p:46,x:105,y:789,w:357,h:21},
{t:"If we really believe these verses, then we can use this agreement ",p:46,x:105,y:846,w:440,h:21},
{t:"in prayer very powerfully. Jesus uses the Greek words pantos pragma-",p:46,x:90,y:872,w:449,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   39",p:46,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:27 AM",p:46,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"40",p:47,x:90,y:944,w:17,h:21},
{t:"tos, which literally translated means “every practical matter.” To bring ",p:47,x:120,y:100,w:453,h:22},
{t:"God’s power to bear, we need to agree. Jesus uses the word symphoneo, ",p:47,x:120,y:127,w:454,h:22},
{t:"which means to “sound together.” This reminds us that the Holy Spirit ",p:47,x:120,y:154,w:454,h:21},
{t:"loves to work in unity and that for there to be action in heaven there ",p:47,x:120,y:180,w:455,h:21},
{t:"needs to be unity here on earth.",p:47,x:120,y:207,w:201,h:21},
{t:"Do you remember the story of the paralyzed man who was brought ",p:47,x:135,y:234,w:440,h:21},
{t:"to Jesus by his friends? He was bedridden and certainly couldn’t have ",p:47,x:120,y:260,w:454,h:21},
{t:"made it to Jesus on his own, but he had a bunch of friends who really ",p:47,x:120,y:287,w:454,h:21},
{t:"cared for him, and they made sure that he reached Jesus:",p:47,x:120,y:314,w:367,h:21},
{t:"And the Lord’s healing power was strongly with Jesus. Some ",p:47,x:157,y:370,w:385,h:21},
{t:"men came carrying a paralyzed man on a sleeping mat. They ",p:47,x:157,y:397,w:391,h:21},
{t:"tried to push through the crowd to Jesus, but they couldn’t ",p:47,x:157,y:424,w:376,h:21},
{t:"reach him. So they went up to the roof, took off some tiles, and ",p:47,x:157,y:450,w:404,h:21},
{t:"lowered the sick man down into the crowd, still on his mat, right ",p:47,x:157,y:477,w:415,h:21},
{t:"in front of Jesus. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the man, “Son, ",p:47,x:157,y:504,w:415,h:21},
{t:"your sins are forgiven.”—Luke 5:17–20 nlt",p:47,x:157,y:531,w:275,h:21},
{t:"It was the faith of his friends that enabled Jesus to forgive the sins ",p:47,x:135,y:587,w:439,h:21},
{t:"of the man, and even more:",p:47,x:120,y:614,w:175,h:21},
{t:"Then Jesus turned to the paralyzed man and said, “Stand up, ",p:47,x:157,y:670,w:394,h:21},
{t:"take your mat, and go on home, because you are healed!”",p:47,x:157,y:697,w:368,h:21},
{t:"And immediately, as everyone watched, the man jumped to his ",p:47,x:157,y:724,w:403,h:21},
{t:"feet, picked up his mat, and went home praising God. Everyone ",p:47,x:157,y:750,w:407,h:21},
{t:"was gripped with great wonder and awe. And they praised God, ",p:47,x:157,y:777,w:407,h:21},
{t:"saying over and over again, “We have seen amazing things ",p:47,x:157,y:804,w:381,h:21},
{t:"today.” —Luke 5:24–26 nlt",p:47,x:157,y:830,w:175,h:21},
{t:"It might be that we feel paralyzed about a specifc concern or worry ",p:47,x:135,y:887,w:439,h:21},
{t:"in our lives. We might lack faith for something we have almost given ",p:47,x:120,y:914,w:454,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   40",p:47,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:28 AM",p:47,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"41",p:48,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"up praying for, in which case our friends can carry us to Jesus and pray on ",p:48,x:90,y:100,w:484,h:21},
{t:"our behalf. We need to stand in agreement with each other and pray for ",p:48,x:90,y:127,w:485,h:21},
{t:"breakthrough. We’ll “pray outrageously” for each other and believe that God ",p:48,x:90,y:154,w:483,h:21},
{t:"will answer.",p:48,x:90,y:180,w:75,h:21},
{t:"After that, over the next month or so on the road, we met ",p:48,x:120,y:268,w:455,h:21},
{t:"together to pray outrageously. One by one, each band mem-",p:48,x:90,y:295,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ber shared intensely personal concerns he desperately needed ",p:48,x:90,y:321,w:486,h:21},
{t:"prayer for. Using the image of the paralyzed man and the power ",p:48,x:90,y:348,w:484,h:21},
{t:"of agreeing in prayer, we lifted each one to the Lord in prayer. ",p:48,x:90,y:375,w:485,h:21},
{t:"These times together were incredibly powerful. We shared stuff ",p:48,x:90,y:401,w:484,h:21},
{t:"we’d never spoken about before; there were tears, there were ",p:48,x:90,y:428,w:486,h:21},
{t:"genuine concern and love for each other, and there was will-",p:48,x:90,y:455,w:480,h:21},
{t:"ingness to bring the power of God to bear into situations and ",p:48,x:90,y:481,w:486,h:21},
{t:"circumstances that individually each of us had either given ",p:48,x:90,y:508,w:488,h:21},
{t:"up praying about or never had the faith to pray about in the ",p:48,x:90,y:535,w:486,h:21},
{t:"first place. Family stuff, band stuff, future plans, friends who ",p:48,x:90,y:561,w:486,h:21},
{t:"were hurting, personal walks with the Lord, and relationship ",p:48,x:90,y:588,w:487,h:21},
{t:"concerns were just some of the areas we each asked the rest ",p:48,x:90,y:615,w:487,h:21},
{t:"of the guys to pray outrageously for. Over the weeks of these ",p:48,x:90,y:641,w:486,h:21},
{t:"devotions, we learned at a deep level what it means to pray for ",p:48,x:90,y:668,w:484,h:21},
{t:"each other and to intercede on each other’s behalf. How is it ",p:48,x:90,y:695,w:486,h:21},
{t:"that Third Day has survived as a band for so long? David gives ",p:48,x:90,y:721,w:484,h:21},
{t:"us his view:",p:48,x:90,y:748,w:91,h:21},
{t:"A constant subject that comes up in interviews is the unity of ",p:48,x:90,y:788,w:405,h:22},
{t:"Tird Day and how we keep it strong. It ’s no easier to answer ",p:48,x:90,y:815,w:408,h:22},
{t:"than it is to implement. Unity depends upon a lot of fac-",p:48,x:90,y:842,w:374,h:22},
{t:"tors for any union of souls—be it a marriage between man ",p:48,x:90,y:868,w:394,h:22},
{t:"and woman or the pseudo-marriage of the members of a band. ",p:48,x:90,y:895,w:429,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   41",p:48,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:29 AM",p:48,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"42",p:49,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:49,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"We’ve all been through a lot together on the road: home sickness, ",p:49,x:90,y:100,w:443,h:22},
{t:"disagreements over various issues such as the general direction of the ",p:49,x:90,y:127,w:465,h:22},
{t:"show, and just plain weariness from being in a diferent and unfamiliar ",p:49,x:90,y:153,w:463,h:22},
{t:"place each day. Tere is also something to be said for times of depres-",p:49,x:90,y:180,w:469,h:22},
{t:"sion that each of us can go through from time to time. More than any ",p:49,x:90,y:207,w:461,h:22},
{t:"of that, we have each experienced so many personal changes through ",p:49,x:90,y:234,w:469,h:22},
{t:"the years as we’ve aged and grown up. We were kids when Tird Day ",p:49,x:90,y:260,w:470,h:22},
{t:"started. Now we’re all married and we have a small army of kids our-",p:49,x:90,y:287,w:453,h:22},
{t:"selves. And that changes everything.",p:49,x:90,y:314,w:239,h:22},
{t:"Trough it all, though, a sort of unspoken common goal of Tird Day ",p:49,x:90,y:340,w:458,h:22},
{t:"has been to simply celebrate this incredible gif we’ve been given. ",p:49,x:90,y:367,w:444,h:22},
{t:"We are indeed grateful for the success we’ve enjoyed—as are our ",p:49,x:90,y:394,w:446,h:22},
{t:"families. Tere have been times where it felt like the only thing holding ",p:49,x:90,y:420,w:470,h:22},
{t:"us together was the success. Tat doesn’t sound great to say but I just ",p:49,x:90,y:447,w:462,h:22},
{t:"believe it is one of the things the world uses for selfsh gain but some-",p:49,x:90,y:474,w:463,h:22},
{t:"thing that God has used to keep us moving along. And at the end of ",p:49,x:90,y:500,w:459,h:22},
{t:"the day there has always been this comforting resolve that we are not ",p:49,x:90,y:527,w:465,h:22},
{t:"in as much control of our destiny as we think. We are mere instruments ",p:49,x:90,y:554,w:472,h:22},
{t:"in a larger orchestra with a beter conductor. Tat is something to rally ",p:49,x:90,y:580,w:466,h:22},
{t:"around as a band and to fnd unity in!",p:49,x:90,y:607,w:252,h:22},
{t:"Now it might sound good to say that we are all so deeply close to one ",p:49,x:90,y:634,w:476,h:22},
{t:"another and just the best of friends but it would be less than truthful. ",p:49,x:90,y:660,w:458,h:22},
{t:"And besides, is that really the goal or the purpose in life? I do believe ",p:49,x:90,y:686,w:469,h:23},
{t:"any one of us would give our right arm for another if it came to it, so ",p:49,x:90,y:713,w:458,h:22},
{t:"that makes our friendships much deeper than we may even realize at ",p:49,x:90,y:740,w:461,h:22},
{t:"times. Tere is no doubt that everyone who represents Tird Day, be ",p:49,x:90,y:767,w:465,h:22},
{t:"it band members, wives, or kids are much more woven together than ",p:49,x:90,y:793,w:462,h:22},
{t:"it feels to us at times and God has made his stamp on our lives very ",p:49,x:90,y:820,w:451,h:22},
{t:"visible. We are busy people and our on the road/of the road lifestyles ",p:49,x:90,y:847,w:475,h:22},
{t:"open the door for much opportunity to be distracted by the less ",p:49,x:90,y:874,w:440,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   42",p:49,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:29 AM",p:49,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"43",p:50,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Come Together",p:50,x:465,y:41,w:105,h:21},
{t:"important maters of life which can ofen squelch unity, so we count it ",p:50,x:90,y:100,w:463,h:22},
{t:"a blessing to have the lasting friendships that God has given us in each ",p:50,x:90,y:127,w:469,h:22},
{t:"other. ",p:50,x:90,y:153,w:41,h:22},
{t:"David Carr, November 2006",p:50,x:370,y:194,w:200,h:23},
{t:"So here’s my analysis of the five guys in Third Day. Five ",p:50,x:120,y:253,w:456,h:21},
{t:"guys, each of whom I am extremely proud to call friend. To ",p:50,x:90,y:280,w:487,h:21},
{t:"ensure that there is no favoritism, I’ll describe them in alpha-",p:50,x:90,y:307,w:479,h:21},
{t:"betical order.",p:50,x:90,y:333,w:99,h:21},
{t:"Tai Anderson: ",p:50,x:120,y:375,w:117,h:22},
{t:"Not necessarily the best bass player in the world, but the ",p:50,x:120,y:409,w:456,h:21},
{t:"best-looking bass player in the world. Tai is simply one of the ",p:50,x:90,y:436,w:485,h:21},
{t:"people I most enjoy being around. When Jesus talked about ",p:50,x:90,y:462,w:487,h:21},
{t:"bringing life in all its fullness, He could have been using Tai ",p:50,x:90,y:489,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Anderson as an example. He’s all energy and has more inno-",p:50,x:90,y:516,w:480,h:21},
{t:"vative thoughts and plans before breakfast than most of us do ",p:50,x:90,y:542,w:485,h:21},
{t:"in a week! This was never more graphically illustrated than on ",p:50,x:90,y:569,w:485,h:21},
{t:"our tour of Australia in January 2007. We were in Brisbane and ",p:50,x:90,y:596,w:484,h:21},
{t:"due to fly out in the morning to Sydney. I had a single room ",p:50,x:90,y:622,w:486,h:21},
{t:"in the hotel, but the guys were sharing; David and Tai were ",p:50,x:90,y:649,w:487,h:21},
{t:"paired up. ",p:50,x:90,y:676,w:82,h:21},
{t:"David wanted to fly out very early the next morning to ",p:50,x:120,y:702,w:457,h:21},
{t:"catch up with friends in Sydney and asked me if I’d mind ",p:50,x:90,y:729,w:488,h:21},
{t:"swapping rooms and sharing with Tai. Of course, I said yes ",p:50,x:90,y:756,w:488,h:21},
{t:"but didn’t really know what I was letting myself in for. I went ",p:50,x:90,y:783,w:485,h:21},
{t:"to bed first and was dozing, watching some rugby on TV. Tai ",p:50,x:90,y:809,w:486,h:21},
{t:"came in around 1:30 in the morning and proceeded to ask ",p:50,x:90,y:836,w:488,h:21},
{t:"loads of questions about rugby, started debriefing about the ",p:50,x:90,y:863,w:487,h:21},
{t:"tour so far, reviewed booking procedures for overseas tours, ",p:50,x:90,y:889,w:487,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   43",p:50,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:30 AM",p:50,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"44",p:51,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:51,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"and then talked about some family stuff. After a while I was ",p:51,x:90,y:101,w:486,h:21},
{t:"falling asleep, so I excused myself, turned off the TV, and put ",p:51,x:90,y:127,w:486,h:21},
{t:"my head down. The next thing I knew, I heard the shower on ",p:51,x:90,y:154,w:486,h:21},
{t:"and assumed I’d overslept and jumped up in a panic. The time ",p:51,x:90,y:181,w:485,h:21},
{t:"was only 5:30 in the morning, and Tai was already up. I dozed ",p:51,x:90,y:207,w:485,h:21},
{t:"off again to be woken at 7:30 by Tai brandishing sheets of pa-",p:51,x:90,y:234,w:480,h:21},
{t:"per. He’d already been to the hotel’s business center and writ-",p:51,x:90,y:261,w:480,h:21},
{t:"ten out a series of propositions as a result of our conversation ",p:51,x:90,y:288,w:485,h:21},
{t:"a few hours earlier. That’s Tai—passionate and committed to ",p:51,x:90,y:314,w:487,h:23},
{t:"the ministry of Third Day, forever pursuing excellence and, to ",p:51,x:90,y:341,w:485,h:21},
{t:"use a British phrase, “mad as a badger.” Tai is not ashamed to ",p:51,x:90,y:368,w:485,h:21},
{t:"put his arm around male friends, and I’ve appreciated that af-",p:51,x:90,y:394,w:480,h:21},
{t:"firmation from him on numerous occasions. He vies with David ",p:51,x:90,y:421,w:484,h:21},
{t:"as king of the one-liners and has a sense of humor that either ",p:51,x:90,y:448,w:485,h:21},
{t:"makes me giggle uncontrollably or hang my head in despair! ",p:51,x:90,y:474,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Tai’s growing assurance as a public speaker has done much ",p:51,x:90,y:501,w:488,h:21},
{t:"to engage Third Day fans with important issues of justice and ",p:51,x:90,y:528,w:485,h:21},
{t:"compassion overseas, and he practices what he preaches.",p:51,x:90,y:554,w:437,h:21},
{t:"Brad Avery:",p:51,x:120,y:596,w:96,h:22},
{t:"He’s my golfing buddy! A man of constant encouragement ",p:51,x:120,y:630,w:455,h:21},
{t:"to me on the golf course, Brad is a perfectionist where his own ",p:51,x:90,y:657,w:485,h:21},
{t:"game is concerned. Graciously he takes a hacker like me out ",p:51,x:90,y:683,w:487,h:21},
{t:"on golf courses all over America, and I enjoy his company im-",p:51,x:90,y:710,w:479,h:21},
{t:"mensely.",p:51,x:90,y:737,w:66,h:21},
{t:"Brad’s desire for perfection spills over into his music, and ",p:51,x:120,y:763,w:456,h:21},
{t:"he can often be seen at sound check making detailed changes ",p:51,x:90,y:790,w:485,h:21},
{t:"to his onstage equipment. Brad and I are closest together in ",p:51,x:90,y:817,w:487,h:21},
{t:"age, although I’m still a good few years older, and that means ",p:51,x:90,y:844,w:485,h:21},
{t:"some of our musical heritage overlaps. We had great fun to-",p:51,x:90,y:870,w:479,h:21},
{t:"gether one night on the tour bus watching a documentary about ",p:51,x:90,y:897,w:483,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   44",p:51,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:30 AM",p:51,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"45",p:52,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Come Together",p:52,x:465,y:41,w:105,h:21},
{t:"heavy metal music. We could remember many of the bands ",p:52,x:90,y:101,w:488,h:21},
{t:"mentioned. Brad is always the first one up when we are on the ",p:52,x:90,y:127,w:485,h:21},
{t:"road, and his morning routine faithfully includes stretches and ",p:52,x:90,y:154,w:484,h:21},
{t:"exercises along with a healthy amount of time in the Word of ",p:52,x:90,y:181,w:485,h:21},
{t:"God. Brad is a deep thinker, and even with his music and his ",p:52,x:90,y:207,w:486,h:21},
{t:"golf, he always desires a deeper walk with the Lord.",p:52,x:90,y:234,w:398,h:21},
{t:"He’s very much his own man but, like the other guys in the ",p:52,x:120,y:261,w:454,h:21},
{t:"band, willingly takes responsibility for his own spiritual jour-",p:52,x:90,y:288,w:480,h:21},
{t:"ney and always has a Christian book in his bag to stimulate ",p:52,x:90,y:314,w:487,h:21},
{t:"his thinking.",p:52,x:90,y:341,w:96,h:21},
{t:"In 2010, golf’s Ryder Cup tournament is to be held in Wales, ",p:52,x:120,y:368,w:454,h:21},
{t:"and I’d love to think Brad and I could be walking the fairways ",p:52,x:90,y:394,w:485,h:21},
{t:"cheering on the US and European teams respectively.",p:52,x:90,y:421,w:408,h:21},
{t:"David Carr:",p:52,x:120,y:462,w:91,h:22},
{t:"The two of us really shouldn’t be compatible because David ",p:52,x:120,y:497,w:454,h:21},
{t:"is a car connoisseur and a skillful man as far as home improve-",p:52,x:90,y:523,w:480,h:21},
{t:"ments go. I, on the other hand, am definitely not either of those ",p:52,x:90,y:550,w:484,h:21},
{t:"things. Furthermore, he’s a consummate drummer, and I’m a ",p:52,x:90,y:577,w:487,h:21},
{t:"wannabe drummer (put it this way, my drumming is worse ",p:52,x:90,y:603,w:488,h:21},
{t:"than my golf!).",p:52,x:90,y:630,w:115,h:21},
{t:"Yet whenever we talk about faith, life, and family, David ",p:52,x:120,y:657,w:456,h:21},
{t:"and I find that we have so much in common. David is desperate ",p:52,x:90,y:683,w:484,h:21},
{t:"to cut through Christian cliché and find reality. He’s scrupu-",p:52,x:90,y:710,w:479,h:21},
{t:"lously honest about his own shortcomings, and he often vocal-",p:52,x:90,y:737,w:479,h:21},
{t:"izes what the rest of us are really thinking but too afraid to say. ",p:52,x:90,y:763,w:484,h:21},
{t:"For example, David will articulate that his biggest “ministry” ",p:52,x:90,y:790,w:486,h:21},
{t:"challenges aren’t as a member of a high-profile rock band but ",p:52,x:90,y:817,w:485,h:21},
{t:"as a husband and a father.",p:52,x:90,y:844,w:203,h:21},
{t:"Brokenness, humility , and desperation for God are some of ",p:52,x:120,y:870,w:456,h:21},
{t:"the marks of a disciple that David carries with him. I can well",p:52,x:90,y:897,w:487,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   45",p:52,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:30 AM",p:52,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"46",p:53,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:53,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"remember the time at a concert venue when David engaged a",p:53,x:90,y:101,w:490,h:21},
{t:"security guard in conversation throughout the day and then led",p:53,x:90,y:127,w:491,h:21},
{t:"him to Christ after the concert. He’s right up there with T",p:53,x:90,y:154,w:455,h:21},
{t:"ai as ",p:53,x:534,y:154,w:42,h:21},
{t:"far as humor goes, has a great ability to mimic people, and can ",p:53,x:90,y:181,w:485,h:21},
{t:"remember all the funny lines from our favorite films and re",p:53,x:90,y:207,w:483,h:21},
{t:"-",p:53,x:562,y:207,w:7,h:21},
{t:"peat them in the right accent. He’s also a lover of certain Brit",p:53,x:90,y:234,w:484,h:21},
{t:"-",p:53,x:562,y:234,w:7,h:21},
{t:"ish comedians, although his attempt at the accent sounds lik",p:53,x:90,y:261,w:468,h:21},
{t:"e a ",p:53,x:547,y:261,w:28,h:21},
{t:"character out of Mary Poppins. Along with Tai, David is also a ",p:53,x:90,y:288,w:486,h:21},
{t:"regular visitor to a certain chain of coffee shops, so we’ll often",p:53,x:90,y:314,w:491,h:21},
{t:"have good talking times together over a cup of coffee. For me,",p:53,x:90,y:341,w:491,h:21},
{t:"David is best summed up by A cts 13:22: God said David “is a ",p:53,x:90,y:368,w:487,h:21},
{t:"man after my own heart.”",p:53,x:90,y:394,w:198,h:21},
{t:"Mark Lee:",p:53,x:120,y:436,w:80,h:22},
{t:"How best to describe Mark Lee? A fine guitarist, a rock ",p:53,x:120,y:470,w:458,h:21},
{t:"music expert, an avid reader, a prolific blogger, and a big fan ",p:53,x:90,y:497,w:486,h:21},
{t:"of college football; those will do for a start. For many years ",p:53,x:90,y:523,w:487,h:21},
{t:"Mark and Mac have had a pact that whenever they are in a ",p:53,x:90,y:550,w:487,h:21},
{t:"city that has a baseball stadium, they must try to visit it, if ",p:53,x:90,y:577,w:487,h:21},
{t:"they possibly can. I’ve gate-crashed that pact over recent years ",p:53,x:90,y:603,w:484,h:21},
{t:"and have enjoyed many great days at the ball game. Mark is ",p:53,x:90,y:630,w:486,h:21},
{t:"a real encouragement to me because often on his own blog ",p:53,x:90,y:657,w:487,h:21},
{t:"or on the Third Day site he will make reference to a devotion ",p:53,x:90,y:683,w:486,h:21},
{t:"I’ve shared, and it’s always a relief to know that someone was ",p:53,x:90,y:710,w:485,h:21},
{t:"actually listening. Mark once took me along to a conference ",p:53,x:90,y:737,w:487,h:21},
{t:"in Nashville themed around Bob Briner’s book Roaring Lambs. ",p:53,x:90,y:763,w:485,h:21},
{t:"The conference was full of believers from Nashville, New York, ",p:53,x:90,y:790,w:485,h:21},
{t:"and Hollywood and focused on influencing culture. Mark was ",p:53,x:90,y:817,w:485,h:21},
{t:"in his element and was well respected among the plethora of ",p:53,x:90,y:844,w:486,h:21},
{t:"writers, producers, artists, theologians, and academics.",p:53,x:90,y:870,w:418,h:21},
{t:"Mark’s most endearing quality is that he totally gets my ",p:53,x:120,y:897,w:457,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   46",p:53,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:30 AM",p:53,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"47",p:54,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Come Together",p:54,x:465,y:41,w:105,h:21},
{t:"quirky, British sense of humor and will often catch a joke or ",p:54,x:90,y:101,w:486,h:21},
{t:"funny saying that others miss completely. Everybody loves ",p:54,x:90,y:127,w:489,h:21},
{t:"someone who laughs at his jokes! Mark also has a very south-",p:54,x:90,y:154,w:480,h:21},
{t:"ern drawl, and I can listen to him talk for ages. The America I ",p:54,x:90,y:181,w:485,h:21},
{t:"dreamed about as a kid and I saw on TV comes alive in con-",p:54,x:90,y:207,w:480,h:21},
{t:"versations with Mark Lee.",p:54,x:90,y:234,w:197,h:21},
{t:"Mac Powell:",p:54,x:120,y:275,w:95,h:22},
{t:"Mac is the most recognizable member of the band—after all ",p:54,x:120,y:302,w:454,h:23},
{t:"he is the front man, and his voice and looks are very distinct. ",p:54,x:90,y:329,w:485,h:21},
{t:"His passion for baseball has rubbed off on me, and I’ve at-",p:54,x:90,y:356,w:479,h:21},
{t:"tempted to educate him and Mark about cricket. An immensely ",p:54,x:90,y:383,w:484,h:21},
{t:"respected figure in the Christian music industry, Mac never-",p:54,x:90,y:409,w:479,h:21},
{t:"theless needs plenty of verbal affirmation. I guess because he ",p:54,x:90,y:436,w:486,h:21},
{t:"knows the impact of verbal affirmation for himself, Mac is ",p:54,x:90,y:463,w:488,h:21},
{t:"great at giving it to others. Whenever I arrive on tour and ",p:54,x:90,y:489,w:488,h:21},
{t:"whenever I leave, Mac always makes a point of telling me that ",p:54,x:90,y:516,w:485,h:21},
{t:"my presence is valuable to the band—and specifically helpful ",p:54,x:90,y:542,w:486,h:23},
{t:"for him. Actually, through Mac and Tai, much of my British ",p:54,x:90,y:569,w:487,h:21},
{t:"reserve has been broken down, and I’m no longer embarrassed ",p:54,x:90,y:596,w:485,h:21},
{t:"to tell a brother in Christ that I love him. Mac is another dis-",p:54,x:90,y:623,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ciplined reader and will often come to me with a theological ",p:54,x:90,y:649,w:486,h:21},
{t:"question arising out of a book.",p:54,x:90,y:676,w:236,h:21},
{t:"Mac’s often the movie-trip organizer as well, and I regu-",p:54,x:120,y:703,w:449,h:21},
{t:"larly arrive back home having seen all the top movies before ",p:54,x:90,y:729,w:486,h:21},
{t:"they’ve even been released in the UK, thanks to Mac. Along ",p:54,x:90,y:756,w:487,h:21},
{t:"with Tai, David, and Mark,  Mac has opened up his home to me ",p:54,x:90,y:783,w:484,h:21},
{t:"on numerous occasions, and for that I’ll always be thankful. ",p:54,x:90,y:809,w:487,h:21},
{t:"Like Mark, Mac embodies for me all that I’d imagined a good ",p:54,x:90,y:836,w:486,h:21},
{t:"ole southern boy to be, and I’ve learned not to get between him ",p:54,x:90,y:863,w:484,h:21},
{t:"and a TV set when Alabama is playing football.",p:54,x:90,y:889,w:367,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   47",p:54,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:30 AM",p:54,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"48",p:55,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:55,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"When I see Mac singing on stage or speaking between ",p:55,x:120,y:101,w:459,h:21},
{t:"songs or leading thousands in worshiping the Lord, I’m aware ",p:55,x:90,y:127,w:485,h:21},
{t:"what a gifted front man he is. Many of us would love to be as ",p:55,x:90,y:154,w:485,h:21},
{t:"accomplished as he is in just one of these areas, yet Mac is al-",p:55,x:90,y:181,w:480,h:21},
{t:"ways aware that these gifts come from God, and he endeavors ",p:55,x:90,y:207,w:485,h:21},
{t:"to be a wise steward and a conscientious leader. ",p:55,x:90,y:234,w:374,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   48",p:55,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:30 AM",p:55,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"4",p:56,x:372,y:-45,w:222,h:600},
{t:"Put Your Hand in Mine",p:56,x:38,y:479,w:531,h:43},
{t:"-Come on BaCk to me- ",p:56,x:141,y:673,w:387,h:57},
{t:"Put your faith in what you can’t see ",p:56,x:114,y:752,w:445,h:40},
{t:"Just put your hand in mine",p:56,x:157,y:790,w:347,h:40},
{t:"and i’ll show you the way",p:56,x:175,y:829,w:315,h:40},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   49",p:56,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:31 AM",p:56,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"50",p:57,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:57,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"Easter 2005, the Wherever You Are tour rolls into Nashville. ",p:57,x:90,y:91,w:485,h:69},
{t:"It is going to be a busy time because besides the concert ",p:57,x:121,y:127,w:455,h:21},
{t:"and a gold disc presentation there is a two-day Gomer Gather-",p:57,x:90,y:154,w:480,h:21},
{t:"ing of Third Day’s most hard-core fans. I’ve been asked to lead ",p:57,x:90,y:181,w:485,h:21},
{t:"devotions for the Gomer Gathering at the start of each day. ",p:57,x:90,y:207,w:487,h:21},
{t:"On the second morning the worship band will be none other ",p:57,x:90,y:234,w:486,h:21},
{t:"than Third Day themselves playing acoustic versions of some ",p:57,x:90,y:261,w:486,h:21},
{t:"of their most loved worship songs, but for the first morning, ",p:57,x:90,y:288,w:487,h:21},
{t:"worship will be led by the guys in Hyper Static Union. ",p:57,x:90,y:314,w:424,h:21},
{t:"Meeting the band face to face and hanging out with them ",p:57,x:120,y:341,w:455,h:21},
{t:"for a short time is an incredibly exciting time for Third Day ",p:57,x:90,y:368,w:487,h:21},
{t:"fans. The guys spend considerable time on the road talking ",p:57,x:90,y:394,w:488,h:21},
{t:"to fans, signing autographs, walking around meet-and-greet ",p:57,x:90,y:421,w:487,h:21},
{t:"rooms, and posing for photos. After so many years doing this ",p:57,x:90,y:448,w:486,h:21},
{t:"kind of thing, it can become stale and at times even tedious. ",p:57,x:90,y:474,w:486,h:21},
{t:"For the band it’s just another day, but for fans it could be one of ",p:57,x:90,y:501,w:484,h:21},
{t:"the days of their lives. This was brought clearly into perspective ",p:57,x:90,y:528,w:484,h:21},
{t:"to us when we all went to see U2 play in Atlanta. I’d already ",p:57,x:90,y:554,w:486,h:21},
{t:"seen U2 in my hometown of Cardiff, Wales, but Tai generously ",p:57,x:90,y:581,w:485,h:21},
{t:"offered me a spare ticket for the Atlanta show. I spent most ",p:57,x:90,y:608,w:487,h:21},
{t:"of the evening next to Mark Lee and Third Day’s production ",p:57,x:90,y:634,w:486,h:21},
{t:"manager, Dave, in the VIP area in front of the soundboard. The ",p:57,x:90,y:661,w:484,h:21},
{t:"rest of the guys and their wives were up in seats, and Tai tells ",p:57,x:90,y:688,w:485,h:21},
{t:"the real story:",p:57,x:90,y:714,w:107,h:21},
{t:"I know whenever anyone talks about Bono, a debate among ",p:57,x:138,y:770,w:405,h:22},
{t:"Christians is sure to follow: You know, he used to be a ",p:57,x:156,y:796,w:361,h:22},
{t:"Christian. Is he still a Christian? How can he be and drop the ",p:57,x:161,y:823,w:406,h:22},
{t:"F-bomb on the Golden Globes? Well, he is doing a lot for ",p:57,x:161,y:850,w:393,h:22},
{t:"Africa, but didn’t you read that article where he got drunk and ",p:57,x:155,y:876,w:419,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   50",p:57,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:31 AM",p:57,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"51",p:58,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Put Your Hand in Mine",p:58,x:420,y:41,w:150,h:21},
{t:"passed out on the foor of some bar in New Orleans afer the Super ",p:58,x:90,y:100,w:460,h:22},
{t:"Bowl? What ’s with that headband anyway?",p:58,x:90,y:127,w:286,h:22},
{t:"Bono has become one of American Christians’ favorite topics. I think ",p:58,x:90,y:153,w:455,h:22},
{t:"my church is going to have a Sunday school class just to debate Bono’s ",p:58,x:90,y:180,w:471,h:22},
{t:"faith next year. So, writing this entry, I know I’ll stir up a few comments ",p:58,x:90,y:207,w:458,h:22},
{t:"and criticism. But I’ve got a prety decent story to tell that I’ve managed ",p:58,x:90,y:234,w:475,h:22},
{t:"to wrangle into a bit of personal revelation, or is that relevation? Never ",p:58,x:90,y:260,w:476,h:22},
{t:"mind, that was last tour .",p:58,x:90,y:287,w:151,h:22},
{t:"You see, U2 has always been my favorite band. My sister bought me ",p:58,x:90,y:314,w:457,h:22},
{t:"Unforgetable Fire when I was about nine, and I’ve been hooked ever ",p:58,x:90,y:340,w:468,h:23},
{t:"since. Growing up, I had posters on my wall, U2 guitar songbooks, T-",p:58,x:90,y:367,w:455,h:22},
{t:"shirts, you name it. U2 is a big reason I ended up in Tird Day. Tey",p:58,x:90,y:393,w:447,h:22},
{t:"’ve ",p:58,x:538,y:393,w:22,h:22},
{t:"always blended spirituality with great rock music. So to me it was the ",p:58,x:90,y:420,w:457,h:22},
{t:"most natural thing in the world. Since I grew up on U2, I never under-",p:58,x:90,y:447,w:461,h:22},
{t:"stood why rock music was always associated with rebellion. To me, it has ",p:58,x:90,y:474,w:481,h:22},
{t:"always been about soaring melodies that wake you up, make you think, ",p:58,x:90,y:500,w:474,h:22},
{t:"and stir your soul. When I was hooking up with David, Mac, and Mark ",p:58,x:90,y:527,w:465,h:22},
{t:"in the early days of Tird Day, I didn’t really understand what all comes ",p:58,x:90,y:554,w:471,h:22},
{t:"with being in a “Christian” band. God seemed like the only topic worthy ",p:58,x:90,y:580,w:481,h:22},
{t:"of a really good power chord.",p:58,x:90,y:607,w:201,h:22},
{t:"My tastes diversifed in high school. REM and the Black Crowes were ",p:58,x:90,y:634,w:459,h:22},
{t:"local legends. Pearl Jam and Nirvana were on the scene. Anyone in a ",p:58,x:90,y:660,w:458,h:22},
{t:"rock band has to learn to play some Led Zeppelin. But at the core of it ",p:58,x:90,y:687,w:473,h:22},
{t:"all was always U2.",p:58,x:90,y:714,w:115,h:22},
{t:"A few years ago Mark and I had the opportunity to meet Bono when ",p:58,x:90,y:740,w:466,h:22},
{t:"he came to Nashville to enlist CCM (Contemporary Christian Music) ",p:58,x:90,y:767,w:458,h:22},
{t:"artists in DATA",p:58,x:90,y:794,w:97,h:22},
{t:"’",p:58,x:186,y:794,w:2,h:22},
{t:"s (Debt, Aid, Trade for Africa) eforts to end extreme ",p:58,x:187,y:794,w:355,h:22},
{t:"poverty in Africa. Mark and I had been to South Africa a few months ",p:58,x:90,y:820,w:459,h:22},
{t:"before with Habitat for Humanity, and we were very keen to hear what ",p:58,x:90,y:847,w:477,h:22},
{t:"Bono had to say. A lot of awesome things came from that meeting. ",p:58,x:90,y:874,w:443,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   51",p:58,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:31 AM",p:58,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"52",p:59,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:59,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"A bunch of artists did a tribute album to raise funds, and Jars of Clay ",p:59,x:90,y:100,w:455,h:22},
{t:"started an amazing foundation called the BloodWater Mission to bring ",p:59,x:90,y:127,w:472,h:22},
{t:"fresh, clean water to Africa. Brad, Mark, and I made a trip to Lesotho in ",p:59,x:90,y:153,w:469,h:22},
{t:"southern Africa to experience frsthand what AIDS is doing to Africa. ",p:59,x:90,y:180,w:458,h:22},
{t:"Since then, we’ve tried to direct as much atention as possible to World ",p:59,x:90,y:207,w:479,h:22},
{t:"Vision’s HOPE child initiative, which specifcally targets children in re-",p:59,x:90,y:234,w:452,h:22},
{t:"gions hardest hit by AIDS.",p:59,x:90,y:260,w:170,h:22},
{t:"CCM artists and fans really grabbed on to Bono’s mission. I know a lot ",p:59,x:90,y:287,w:466,h:22},
{t:"of the political results of DATA",p:59,x:90,y:314,w:202,h:22},
{t:"’",p:59,x:291,y:314,w:2,h:22},
{t:"s eforts came about because American ",p:59,x:292,y:314,w:268,h:22},
{t:"politicians fnally realized how many of us are concerned about the ",p:59,x:90,y:340,w:449,h:22},
{t:"AIDS crisis. It ’s been amazing to be a part of a sort of revival among ",p:59,x:90,y:367,w:450,h:22},
{t:"believers where we’ve realized that our faith shouldn’t just compel us to ",p:59,x:90,y:394,w:480,h:22},
{t:"improved behavior but also toward a sense of mission and justice for ",p:59,x:90,y:420,w:463,h:22},
{t:"the world.",p:59,x:90,y:447,w:67,h:22},
{t:"Anyway, sorry for preaching. A few weeks ago we had the opportunity ",p:59,x:90,y:474,w:477,h:22},
{t:"to see U2 at Philips Arena in Atlanta. Te folks at DATA hooked us ",p:59,x:90,y:500,w:444,h:22},
{t:"up with passes so we could go backstage and talk with Bono before ",p:59,x:90,y:527,w:456,h:22},
{t:"the show. Since I knew this was coming, I immersed myself in U2 fan ",p:59,x:90,y:554,w:451,h:22},
{t:"geekdom for a solid week. I listened to all my records, I watched DVDs, ",p:59,x:90,y:580,w:477,h:22},
{t:"and I even read a new book entitled Bono: In Conversation where ",p:59,x:90,y:606,w:447,h:23},
{t:"Bono prety much lays out his life story, faith, and philosophy. During ",p:59,x:90,y:633,w:455,h:22},
{t:"the time I was reading the book, we were out on the road doing the ",p:59,x:90,y:660,w:460,h:22},
{t:"All Access tour. Every night afer the show, we’d sit at an autograph ",p:59,x:90,y:686,w:445,h:23},
{t:"table for over an hour signing CDs and talking to fans. I was living out ",p:59,x:90,y:713,w:460,h:22},
{t:"both sides of the fan experience. I was receiving it every night afer the ",p:59,x:90,y:740,w:474,h:22},
{t:"concerts with countless stories of inspiration and appreciation. But I was ",p:59,x:90,y:767,w:477,h:22},
{t:"also experiencing the other side of fandom as I was geting prepared ",p:59,x:90,y:793,w:463,h:22},
{t:"for the U2 show and our meeting with Bono. All week I was question-",p:59,x:90,y:820,w:463,h:22},
{t:"ing what it means to be a fan. It is short for fanatic, you know. What do ",p:59,x:90,y:847,w:468,h:22},
{t:"fans really want? What did I really want from Bono? As I was reading ",p:59,x:90,y:874,w:457,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   52",p:59,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:32 AM",p:59,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"53",p:60,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Put Your Hand in Mine",p:60,x:420,y:41,w:150,h:21},
{t:"the book, one part really spoke to me. Bono talked about meeting ",p:60,x:90,y:100,w:446,h:22},
{t:"Bishop Tutu and asking him for a blessing. He went on to say that he ",p:60,x:90,y:127,w:455,h:22},
{t:"has always craved the blessings of older men he respected. Everyone ",p:60,x:90,y:153,w:465,h:22},
{t:"from Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and Johnny Cash to the pope and Billy ",p:60,x:90,y:180,w:469,h:22},
{t:"Graham had given Bono what amounts to a blessing. Bono talked about ",p:60,x:90,y:207,w:480,h:22},
{t:"how Jacob tricked Esau to get the blessing from Isaac. Why didn’t God ",p:60,x:90,y:234,w:472,h:22},
{t:"intervene? Maybe because Jacob valued the blessing more.",p:60,x:90,y:260,w:400,h:22},
{t:"Well, the light bulb turned on. What do fans want? Fans want a bless-",p:60,x:90,y:287,w:459,h:22},
{t:"ing. Fans want to be appreciated; they want to be acknowledged; they ",p:60,x:90,y:314,w:474,h:22},
{t:"want to be lifed up. I turned to Mac in the front lounge of the bus and ",p:60,x:90,y:340,w:478,h:22},
{t:"told him that I now knew what I wanted from Bono. I wanted a blessing. I ",p:60,x:90,y:367,w:483,h:22},
{t:"wanted my hero to validate me. Lofy, I know. But musicians are sup-",p:60,x:90,y:394,w:449,h:22},
{t:"posed to dream big.",p:60,x:90,y:420,w:137,h:22},
{t:"Te night of the show we headed to the concert. I was the point man ",p:60,x:90,y:447,w:466,h:22},
{t:"with the tickets, so I got to experience the other stressful part of be-",p:60,x:90,y:474,w:449,h:22},
{t:"ing a fan—picking up tickets at will-call, parking, meeting up with the ",p:60,x:90,y:500,w:455,h:22},
{t:"group, and passing out the right tickets and passes, etc. We fnally got ",p:60,x:90,y:527,w:463,h:22},
{t:"it all sorted out and headed to the meet-and-greet area. In there were ",p:60,x:90,y:554,w:473,h:22},
{t:"probably about ffy people. Basically, Bono was going to walk in on his ",p:60,x:90,y:580,w:474,h:22},
{t:"way to the stage. We were all spread out having conversations when ",p:60,x:90,y:607,w:460,h:22},
{t:"Bono walked in talking to the head of the Centers for Disease Control ",p:60,x:90,y:634,w:468,h:22},
{t:"and Prevention, located in Atlanta. He took a picture with a girl having ",p:60,x:90,y:660,w:468,h:22},
{t:"her fourteenth birthday. Ten he turned to us. Te conversation was ",p:60,x:90,y:687,w:458,h:22},
{t:"brief: he basically thanked us for our help and asked us about our trip ",p:60,x:90,y:714,w:468,h:22},
{t:"to Africa. We snapped a picture and he was gone. We didn’t have a ",p:60,x:90,y:740,w:458,h:22},
{t:"chance to chat it up. He didn’t invite us on the plane to fnish the tour ",p:60,x:90,y:767,w:466,h:22},
{t:"with them or open any shows. He didn’t tell us that Conspiracy No. 5 ",p:60,x:90,y:793,w:463,h:23},
{t:"was still his favorite even though it has sold the least. He didn’t ask us ",p:60,x:90,y:820,w:457,h:22},
{t:"why we don’t play “Tief” or what “Blackbird” was about. We met, and ",p:60,x:90,y:847,w:468,h:22},
{t:"we went to our seats. ",p:60,x:90,y:873,w:145,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   53",p:60,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:32 AM",p:60,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"54",p:61,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:61,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"Ten the concert started, and it was probably my least enjoyable ",p:61,x:90,y:100,w:436,h:22},
{t:"concert experience ever. Tis was not the band’s fault; it was because ",p:61,x:90,y:127,w:462,h:22},
{t:"four people walked into our aisle completely wasted, stumbling and ",p:61,x:90,y:153,w:457,h:22},
{t:"cussing and screaming. Tey told David’s wife to move and were geting ",p:61,x:90,y:180,w:481,h:22},
{t:"in our face. David asked to see the guy",p:61,x:90,y:207,w:257,h:22},
{t:"’",p:61,x:348,y:207,w:2,h:22},
{t:"s ticket, and he took out a dollar ",p:61,x:349,y:207,w:218,h:22},
{t:"bill instead. Finally one of the guys took out his ticket—which had them ",p:61,x:90,y:234,w:473,h:22},
{t:"seated way at the other end of the aisle. But they stayed right in front ",p:61,x:90,y:260,w:461,h:22},
{t:"of us, yelling and cussing. Afer David got an usher, they slid over to ",p:61,x:90,y:287,w:450,h:22},
{t:"their seats. Now I was standing right next to the loud, extremely drunk ",p:61,x:90,y:314,w:465,h:22},
{t:"man. U2 was doing its fourth song, and the guy was screaming in my ",p:61,x:90,y:340,w:455,h:22},
{t:"ear twice as loud as Bono was singing from the stage. My blood started ",p:61,x:90,y:367,w:477,h:22},
{t:"boiling. Every thirty seconds, the guy would bump into my shoulder. ",p:61,x:90,y:394,w:456,h:22},
{t:"Bono was talking in between songs, and the man was screaming exple-",p:61,x:90,y:420,w:467,h:22},
{t:"tives at the stage. My veins started popping. I took of my jacket and ",p:61,x:90,y:447,w:455,h:22},
{t:"handed it to my wife and asked her if she had bail money. She pleaded ",p:61,x:90,y:474,w:478,h:22},
{t:"with me not to do anything; “You ’ll get kicked out. ” I started not to care; I ",p:61,x:90,y:500,w:483,h:22},
{t:"couldn’t hear the concert anyway. As the band began playing “Love and ",p:61,x:90,y:527,w:484,h:22},
{t:"Peace, or Else,” he bumped me again. By this time, I had a whole kung ",p:61,x:90,y:554,w:460,h:22},
{t:"fu scenario acted out in my head. I clenched my fsts. Ten he knocked ",p:61,x:90,y:580,w:472,h:22},
{t:"me over into my wife, which knocked her to the ground. I stood up ",p:61,x:90,y:607,w:451,h:22},
{t:"and grabbed the man by the neck, and I guess you could say that I ",p:61,x:90,y:634,w:447,h:22},
{t:"instructed, no, commanded him to change places with his girlfriend. I ",p:61,x:90,y:660,w:457,h:23},
{t:"vented, and . . . he moved. Five minutes later he was gone, probably in a ",p:61,x:90,y:687,w:483,h:22},
{t:"cab heading home.",p:61,x:90,y:713,w:128,h:22},
{t:"Tere was “controversial” Bono on the stage singing about love and ",p:61,x:90,y:740,w:452,h:22},
{t:"peace while “Christian” Tai was tearing into the guy and thinking about ",p:61,x:90,y:767,w:468,h:22},
{t:"how to elude police in the event of an unintended homicide. Did I feel ",p:61,x:90,y:794,w:478,h:22},
{t:"justifed? Absolutely! Did I feel righteous? Absolutely not! When I get ",p:61,x:90,y:820,w:469,h:22},
{t:"really worked up, it takes me a while to calm down. Te band started ",p:61,x:90,y:847,w:462,h:22},
{t:"playing “Pride in the Name of Love,” exalting the nonviolent methods of ",p:61,x:90,y:874,w:477,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   54",p:61,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:32 AM",p:61,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"55",p:62,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Put Your Hand in Mine",p:62,x:420,y:41,w:150,h:21},
{t:"Martin Luther King and Jesus, and I had just spent the last twenty min-",p:62,x:90,y:100,w:459,h:22},
{t:"utes thinking about extracting my justifed vengeance on the drunk next ",p:62,x:90,y:127,w:477,h:22},
{t:"to me. I felt sick to my stomach. As they started “Where the Streets Have ",p:62,x:90,y:153,w:484,h:22},
{t:"No Name,” I prayed: God, forgive me for losing my temper; thank You ",p:62,x:90,y:180,w:467,h:23},
{t:"for helping me to not totally lose control; help me to calm down and ",p:62,x:90,y:206,w:462,h:23},
{t:"relax. Amen. Well, “Streets” is a great song to get you thinking outside of ",p:62,x:90,y:233,w:478,h:23},
{t:"yourself. I was loosening up and fnally began to enjoy the concert.",p:62,x:90,y:260,w:442,h:22},
{t:"Ten it happened. Afer “Where the Streets Have No Name,” Bono ",p:62,x:90,y:287,w:452,h:22},
{t:"started talking about how great it was to be in Georgia. How a lot of ",p:62,x:90,y:313,w:457,h:22},
{t:"great music has come from Georgia. REM is an incredible band. Tird ",p:62,x:90,y:340,w:463,h:22},
{t:"Day is here tonight. . . . I didn’t hear anything else. I stood there with my ",p:62,x:90,y:367,w:474,h:22},
{t:"mouth open. My wife looked at me with her mouth open. Did Bono ",p:62,x:90,y:394,w:458,h:22},
{t:"from U2, the biggest band in the world, just mention Tird Day in the ",p:62,x:90,y:420,w:464,h:22},
{t:"same sentence as REM? As Bono talked about Africa, and the band ",p:62,x:90,y:447,w:452,h:22},
{t:"started to play “ONE, ” tears streaked down my cheeks. Bono asked us ",p:62,x:90,y:474,w:463,h:22},
{t:"to get out our cell phones and text our names to UNITE, an SMS (short ",p:62,x:90,y:500,w:479,h:22},
{t:"message service) code, to sign up for the ONE Campaign. Since I had ",p:62,x:90,y:527,w:468,h:22},
{t:"signed up a year earlier, I took the opportunity to text Mac with this ",p:62,x:90,y:554,w:454,h:22},
{t:"sentence: “We got our blessing.",p:62,x:90,y:580,w:209,h:22},
{t:"”",p:62,x:297,y:580,w:4,h:22},
{t:"Tai Anderson, November 29, 2005",p:62,x:326,y:621,w:243,h:23},
{t:"So often I had talked with the band about relating to fans.",p:62,x:120,y:665,w:442,h:21},
{t:"On the thirty-eighth night of a tour , after a draining ninety-",p:62,x:90,y:692,w:475,h:21},
{t:"minute set, sometimes the last thing you want to do is sign",p:62,x:90,y:718,w:469,h:21},
{t:"autographs, enter into a conversation, or have your photo",p:62,x:90,y:745,w:469,h:21},
{t:"taken. For the band member it can be just another night, but",p:62,x:90,y:772,w:469,h:21},
{t:"for the fan who’s waited two years to see her favorite band of",p:62,x:90,y:798,w:468,h:21},
{t:"all time play live, this is one of the most significant moments",p:62,x:90,y:825,w:468,h:21},
{t:"of her life. A smile, a few positive words, a CD cover signed,",p:62,x:90,y:852,w:468,h:21},
{t:"or a photo willingly posed for becomes a blessing that carries",p:62,x:90,y:878,w:468,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   55",p:62,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:32 AM",p:62,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"56",p:63,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:63,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"a massive impact. On the night of the U2 show in Atlanta, the",p:63,x:90,y:101,w:469,h:21},
{t:"band realized for themselves just how powerful that is.",p:63,x:90,y:127,w:422,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   56",p:63,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:33 AM",p:63,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"57",p:64,x:552,y:944,w:17,h:21},
{t:"The Three Friendships ",p:64,x:90,y:353,w:328,h:48},
{t:"Everyone Needs",p:64,x:90,y:400,w:230,h:48},
{t:"As we talk about authority and accountability issues and the respon-",p:64,x:105,y:515,w:434,h:21},
{t:"sibility to encourage an emerging generation of younger Christians, we ",p:64,x:90,y:542,w:453,h:21},
{t:"recognize the need for these three types of people in our lives:",p:64,x:90,y:569,w:394,h:21},
{t:"A Paul ",p:64,x:156,y:610,w:44,h:21},
{t:"•	",p:64,x:126,y:609,w:13,h:23},
{t:"A Timothy",p:64,x:156,y:637,w:61,h:21},
{t:"•	",p:64,x:126,y:636,w:13,h:23},
{t:"A Barnabas",p:64,x:156,y:664,w:74,h:21},
{t:"•	",p:64,x:126,y:662,w:13,h:23},
{t:"AN oLDER ExAMPLE AND A YoUNGER PERSoN To ENCoURAGE ",p:64,x:90,y:716,w:438,h:24},
{t:"The apostle Paul committed himself to help the younger Timothy ",p:64,x:105,y:767,w:441,h:21},
{t:"grow in his faith. In modern-day words we would say he discipled or ",p:64,x:90,y:793,w:455,h:21},
{t:"mentored Timothy. In his fnal days in a Roman prison cell, Paul chose ",p:64,x:90,y:820,w:454,h:21},
{t:"to write to Timothy with some fnal words of encouragement and advice. ",p:64,x:90,y:847,w:453,h:21},
{t:"He reminded him that they had a friendship and a relationship that ",p:64,x:90,y:873,w:455,h:21},
{t:"was like father and son:",p:64,x:90,y:900,w:153,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   57",p:64,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:33 AM",p:64,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"58",p:65,x:90,y:944,w:17,h:21},
{t:"You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. ",p:65,x:157,y:100,w:408,h:22},
{t:"And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many ",p:65,x:157,y:127,w:404,h:21},
{t:"witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualifed to ",p:65,x:157,y:154,w:399,h:21},
{t:"teach others.—2 Timothy 2:1–2 niv",p:65,x:157,y:180,w:223,h:21},
{t:"When Timothy read this letter, he would have remembered loads of",p:65,x:135,y:237,w:428,h:21},
{t:"shared experiences together: mission trips, miraculous conversions,",p:65,x:120,y:264,w:437,h:21},
{t:"preaching, arrests, and plenty of signs of God at work. This long-",p:65,x:120,y:290,w:447,h:21},
{t:"lasting relationship was based on three things:",p:65,x:120,y:317,w:302,h:21},
{t:"—A RELATIoNSHIP BASED oN A PoSITIvE CHoICE ",p:65,x:120,y:369,w:358,h:24},
{t:"He came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where a disciple named ",p:65,x:157,y:405,w:395,h:21},
{t:"Timothy lived, whose mother was a Jewess and a believer, but ",p:65,x:157,y:432,w:397,h:21},
{t:"whose father was a Greek. The brothers at Lystra and Iconium ",p:65,x:157,y:459,w:398,h:21},
{t:"spoke well of him. Paul wanted to take him along on the journey, ",p:65,x:157,y:485,w:415,h:21},
{t:"so he circumcised him because of the Jews who lived in that ",p:65,x:157,y:512,w:390,h:21},
{t:"area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. As they trav-",p:65,x:157,y:539,w:409,h:21},
{t:"eled from town to town, they delivered the decisions reached by ",p:65,x:157,y:565,w:408,h:21},
{t:"the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the people to obey. So ",p:65,x:157,y:592,w:401,h:21},
{t:"the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in ",p:65,x:157,y:619,w:398,h:21},
{t:"numbers.—Acts 16:1–5 niv",p:65,x:157,y:645,w:174,h:21},
{t:"It would have been easier for Paul to go it alone, but he wanted to ",p:65,x:135,y:702,w:440,h:21},
{t:"take Timothy, to invest in him, and to help him grow in ministry and ",p:65,x:120,y:729,w:455,h:21},
{t:"maturity. It was a tough choice for Timothy to decide to travel with Paul. ",p:65,x:120,y:755,w:453,h:21},
{t:"He had to get circumcised so that his status as a Greek wouldn’t offend ",p:65,x:120,y:782,w:453,h:21},
{t:"the Jews he would be meeting. In effect, Timothy had to turn away from ",p:65,x:120,y:809,w:453,h:21},
{t:"his own background and culture in order to learn from Paul. The result, ",p:65,x:120,y:835,w:453,h:21},
{t:"however, was that the early church grew daily in numbers.",p:65,x:120,y:862,w:371,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   58",p:65,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:34 AM",p:65,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"59",p:66,x:552,y:944,w:17,h:21},
{t:"—A RELATIoNSHIP ESTABLISHED ovER TIME",p:66,x:90,y:100,w:316,h:24},
{t:"I thank God, whom I serve, as my forefathers did, with a clear ",p:66,x:105,y:136,w:397,h:21},
{t:"conscience, as night and day I constantly remember you in my ",p:66,x:105,y:162,w:401,h:21},
{t:"prayers. . . . For this reason I remind you to fan into fame the ",p:66,x:105,y:189,w:395,h:21},
{t:"gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. ",p:66,x:105,y:216,w:401,h:21},
{t:"—2 Timothy 1:3, 6 niv",p:66,x:105,y:242,w:139,h:21},
{t:"Paul laid hands on Timothy right at the start of their time together; ",p:66,x:105,y:299,w:439,h:21},
{t:"and now, years later, he was still urging Timothy to use the gift God ",p:66,x:90,y:326,w:455,h:21},
{t:"had given him. Timothy, by this time, was probably a grown man in his ",p:66,x:90,y:352,w:453,h:21},
{t:"late thirties or early forties, and Paul is still desperate to see Timothy’s ",p:66,x:90,y:379,w:453,h:21},
{t:"destiny in God fulflled.",p:66,x:90,y:406,w:147,h:21},
{t:"I’ve found a modern example of this type of relationship. Jamie ",p:66,x:105,y:432,w:442,h:21},
{t:"Oliver, “the Naked Chef,” is a popular TV personality. In the project ",p:66,x:90,y:459,w:456,h:21},
{t:"called “Jamie’s Kitchen,” he took twelve disadvantaged young people ",p:66,x:90,y:486,w:455,h:21},
{t:"and determined to teach them all he knew about cooking and then set ",p:66,x:90,y:512,w:454,h:21},
{t:"them up for life as chefs. By the end of the project, he had mortgaged ",p:66,x:90,y:539,w:454,h:21},
{t:"his house to pay for the restaurant they were working in; he’d spent ",p:66,x:90,y:566,w:455,h:21},
{t:"hours and hours each day with them, excited about their successes ",p:66,x:90,y:593,w:456,h:21},
{t:"and upset with their failures; he’d given second and third chances and ",p:66,x:90,y:619,w:453,h:21},
{t:"had been let down and lied to; and he’d given master classes in the ",p:66,x:90,y:646,w:455,h:21},
{t:"fnest cooking skills. And, eventually, he had come out with a handful of ",p:66,x:90,y:673,w:453,h:21},
{t:"top-quality chefs. Jamie Oliver had invested a year of his time, money, ",p:66,x:90,y:699,w:454,h:21},
{t:"energy, enthusiasm, and knowledge into these young people.",p:66,x:90,y:726,w:387,h:21},
{t:"Of course, this modern-day example lacks one crucial thing Paul and ",p:66,x:105,y:753,w:438,h:21},
{t:"Timothy had:",p:66,x:90,y:779,w:81,h:21},
{t:"—A RELATIoNSHIP FoCUSED oN JESUS",p:66,x:90,y:831,w:278,h:24},
{t:"So you must never be ashamed to tell others about our Lord. And ",p:66,x:127,y:867,w:416,h:21},
{t:"don’t be ashamed of me, either, even though I’m in prison for ",p:66,x:127,y:894,w:395,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   59",p:66,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:36 AM",p:66,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"60",p:67,x:90,y:944,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Christ. With the strength God gives you, be ready to suffer with ",p:67,x:157,y:100,w:405,h:21},
{t:"me for the proclamation of the Good News.",p:67,x:157,y:127,w:271,h:21},
{t:"It is God who saved us and chose us to live a holy life. He did ",p:67,x:157,y:154,w:394,h:21},
{t:"this not because we deserved it, but because that was his plan ",p:67,x:157,y:180,w:408,h:21},
{t:"long before the world began—to show his love and kindness to ",p:67,x:157,y:207,w:408,h:21},
{t:"us through Christ Jesus.—2 Timothy 1:8–9 nlt",p:67,x:157,y:234,w:296,h:21},
{t:"In the frst chapter of Paul’s second letter to Timothy, we see the ",p:67,x:135,y:290,w:441,h:21},
{t:"name of Jesus mentioned eight times in eighteen verses, and God the ",p:67,x:120,y:317,w:454,h:21},
{t:"Father is mentioned eight times for good measure. So it’s not just about ",p:67,x:120,y:344,w:453,h:21},
{t:"following an older leader. It’s about following a man or woman who is ",p:67,x:120,y:370,w:454,h:21},
{t:"focused on God:",p:67,x:120,y:397,w:101,h:21},
{t:"—A GooD FRIEND",p:67,x:120,y:449,w:131,h:24},
{t:"Think about what I am saying. The Lord will give you under-",p:67,x:157,y:515,w:380,h:21},
{t:"standing in all these things.—2 Timothy 2:7 nlt",p:67,x:157,y:542,w:305,h:21},
{t:"And you should follow my example, just as I follow Christ’s. ",p:67,x:157,y:599,w:380,h:21},
{t:"—1 Corinthians 11:1 nlt",p:67,x:157,y:625,w:157,h:21},
{t:"In the early days after his conversion, Paul was fortunate to have ",p:67,x:135,y:682,w:440,h:21},
{t:"Barnabas vouch for him with the disciples. They were naturally suspi-",p:67,x:120,y:709,w:449,h:21},
{t:"cious of Paul, because he’d been a persecutor of Christians, but it was ",p:67,x:120,y:735,w:453,h:21},
{t:"Barnabas who made sure that Paul was welcomed and accepted:",p:67,x:120,y:762,w:417,h:21},
{t:"Then Barnabas brought him to the apostles and told them how",p:67,x:135,y:819,w:401,h:21},
{t:"Saul had seen the Lord on the way to Damascus. Barnabas also",p:67,x:135,y:845,w:407,h:21},
{t:"told them what the Lord had said to Saul and how he boldly",p:67,x:135,y:872,w:380,h:21},
{t:"preached in the name of Jesus in Damascus.—Acts 9:27 nlt",p:67,x:135,y:899,w:380,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   60",p:67,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:36 AM",p:67,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"61",p:68,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Barnabas was just the type of reliable and honest friend everyone needs:",p:68,x:105,y:100,w:464,h:21},
{t:"Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and strong in ",p:68,x:127,y:157,w:404,h:21},
{t:"faith. And large numbers of people were brought to the Lord. ",p:68,x:127,y:184,w:389,h:21},
{t:"—Acts 11:24 nlt",p:68,x:127,y:210,w:107,h:21},
{t:"Here are some questions to discuss:",p:68,x:105,y:267,w:230,h:21},
{t:"Do you have a Paul fgure in your life? An older, more experi-",p:68,x:156,y:294,w:382,h:21},
{t:"•	",p:68,x:126,y:293,w:13,h:23},
{t:"enced Christian to help you grow.",p:68,x:156,y:320,w:212,h:21},
{t:"Do you have a Timothy fgure in your life? A younger, less ",p:68,x:156,y:347,w:363,h:21},
{t:"•	",p:68,x:126,y:346,w:13,h:23},
{t:"experienced Christian you can help grow.",p:68,x:156,y:374,w:260,h:21},
{t:"Remember that you are never too old to need a Paul and never too ",p:68,x:105,y:415,w:440,h:21},
{t:"young to be a Timothy. ",p:68,x:90,y:442,w:145,h:21},
{t:"And what about a Barnabas? A reliable friend who will be ",p:68,x:156,y:484,w:371,h:21},
{t:"•	",p:68,x:126,y:483,w:13,h:23},
{t:"with you and be honest with you. Sharing the good times ",p:68,x:156,y:510,w:365,h:21},
{t:"and the bad.",p:68,x:156,y:537,w:81,h:21},
{t:"Being respected veterans of Christian music, the guys in ",p:68,x:120,y:595,w:457,h:21},
{t:"Third Day recognize that they are able now to have a mentor-",p:68,x:90,y:621,w:480,h:21},
{t:"ing role with younger, less experienced artists and have gone ",p:68,x:90,y:648,w:486,h:21},
{t:"to great lengths to offer opening slots to up-and-coming per-",p:68,x:90,y:675,w:479,h:21},
{t:"formers. Mac, in particular, is passionate about the role he can ",p:68,x:90,y:701,w:485,h:21},
{t:"fulfill with younger artists. ",p:68,x:90,y:728,w:212,h:21},
{t:"I’ve always had a desire to fnd artists who have potential and ",p:68,x:90,y:783,w:411,h:22},
{t:"help them develop. We’ve been given such a great platorm, ",p:68,x:90,y:810,w:407,h:22},
{t:"and one way to use it is to help other artists develop their ",p:68,x:90,y:837,w:391,h:22},
{t:"craf, to make beter music, and to get them heard by a wider ",p:68,x:90,y:863,w:412,h:22},
{t:"audience. It ’s something I spend a lot of my time away from ",p:68,x:90,y:890,w:396,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   61",p:68,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:38 AM",p:68,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"62",p:69,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:69,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"Tird Day doing, but collectively we’ve all had a hand in Hyper Static ",p:69,x:90,y:100,w:463,h:22},
{t:"Union, for example. In the early years of Tird Day, we weren’t helped ",p:69,x:90,y:127,w:469,h:22},
{t:"so much musically, but there were plenty of people who gave us advice ",p:69,x:90,y:153,w:483,h:22},
{t:"and wisdom to whom we owe a debt.",p:69,x:90,y:180,w:256,h:22},
{t:"When you are looking for a younger musician to help develop, you ",p:69,x:90,y:207,w:455,h:22},
{t:"defnitely want to look for someone who has talent! Personally, I’m also ",p:69,x:90,y:234,w:470,h:22},
{t:"looking for someone who can sing and who can write songs, has a ",p:69,x:90,y:260,w:443,h:22},
{t:"great heart and is spiritually at a place where he or she has something ",p:69,x:90,y:287,w:465,h:22},
{t:"to share, and has the drive to do what it takes to make the whole thing ",p:69,x:90,y:314,w:471,h:22},
{t:"work. I love producing, but it ’s more about helping an up-and-coming ",p:69,x:90,y:340,w:471,h:22},
{t:"artist with his or her craf than just producing a record. I bring to the ",p:69,x:90,y:367,w:454,h:22},
{t:"table the experience I have in writing and arranging songs, and I want to ",p:69,x:90,y:394,w:482,h:22},
{t:"help someone make the best three- or four-minute song he or she pos-",p:69,x:90,y:420,w:477,h:22},
{t:"sibly can. One of my favorite studio sayings is, “Trim the fat. ” Sometimes ",p:69,x:90,y:447,w:472,h:22},
{t:"people like to over-elaborate with lyrics or length of the song, and I ",p:69,x:90,y:474,w:455,h:22},
{t:"aim to cut things away that don’t need to be there because they aren’t ",p:69,x:90,y:500,w:472,h:22},
{t:"helping the song.",p:69,x:90,y:527,w:114,h:22},
{t:"With Hyper Static Union, we spent time helping them look at their stage ",p:69,x:90,y:554,w:484,h:22},
{t:"performance—what was the best order of songs, what approach they ",p:69,x:90,y:580,w:469,h:22},
{t:"should take as an opening band. We’ve been there and done that, so ",p:69,x:90,y:607,w:467,h:22},
{t:"we shared our experiences.",p:69,x:90,y:634,w:183,h:22},
{t:"Mac Powell, November 2006",p:69,x:365,y:675,w:204,h:23},
{t:"David is another band member who finds time to get to ",p:69,x:120,y:718,w:457,h:21},
{t:"know newer artists and spend time in discussion with them.",p:69,x:90,y:745,w:461,h:21},
{t:"When a younger band comes to us for advice about becom-",p:69,x:150,y:800,w:410,h:22},
{t:"ing successful, I reply with what is ofen seen as a cliché but ",p:69,x:158,y:827,w:393,h:22},
{t:"is true and very important: build a fan base. Of course, then ",p:69,x:160,y:854,w:400,h:22},
{t:"they ask, “How do we do that?” and that ’s the sixty-four thou-",p:69,x:156,y:880,w:405,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   62",p:69,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:38 AM",p:69,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"63",p:70,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Put Your Hand in Mine",p:70,x:420,y:41,w:150,h:21},
{t:"sand dollar question! Te answer has to be to make music people want ",p:70,x:90,y:100,w:481,h:22},
{t:"to listen to and want to become fans of. It ’s important not to forget what ",p:70,x:90,y:127,w:482,h:22},
{t:"atracts you to songs you like and what makes you become a fan of a ",p:70,x:90,y:153,w:459,h:22},
{t:"band. Ofentimes it ’s that catchy song you keep on singing to yourself. ",p:70,x:90,y:180,w:467,h:22},
{t:"We have been fortunate that since the start of Tird Day that we’ve had ",p:70,x:90,y:207,w:482,h:22},
{t:"fans who genuinely like our music and believe that it speaks to them at ",p:70,x:90,y:234,w:471,h:22},
{t:"a heart level. Even in those early days it wasn’t just our friends pating ",p:70,x:90,y:260,w:459,h:22},
{t:"us on the back and saying, “Well done”; there was always a growing ",p:70,x:90,y:287,w:450,h:22},
{t:"number of fans. I don’t know how to reproduce that for someone else, ",p:70,x:90,y:314,w:473,h:22},
{t:"but the relationship with our fans has always been vital to the success of ",p:70,x:90,y:340,w:477,h:22},
{t:"Tird Day. Tere’s perhaps a few hundred of them we know quite well, ",p:70,x:90,y:367,w:474,h:22},
{t:"hundreds more who have shaken our hands or to whom we have given ",p:70,x:90,y:394,w:481,h:22},
{t:"an autograph, but there are thousands and thousands more we’ll prob-",p:70,x:90,y:420,w:473,h:22},
{t:"ably never meet. Perhaps many of them will read this book! ",p:70,x:90,y:447,w:398,h:22},
{t:"I think about our fans a lot, especially around concert time when I see ",p:70,x:90,y:474,w:465,h:22},
{t:"fve thousand or so of them in the audience. We’ll recognize a few faces ",p:70,x:90,y:500,w:481,h:22},
{t:"from our fan club, the Gomers, in the front row; but there are other ",p:70,x:90,y:527,w:450,h:22},
{t:"people out there who come to Tird Day shows, listen to our CDs in ",p:70,x:90,y:554,w:462,h:22},
{t:"their cars, or play our songs to their friends. It ’s bizarre to me when I ",p:70,x:90,y:580,w:453,h:22},
{t:"think about it, but it ’s the music that connects them to us. I’ve noticed ",p:70,x:90,y:607,w:459,h:22},
{t:"that extreme fans of sports or music ofen fnd their identity in the ",p:70,x:90,y:634,w:439,h:22},
{t:"sports team or the band they are fans of. Tey wear all the merchan-",p:70,x:90,y:660,w:454,h:22},
{t:"dise, check out all the websites, and almost become obsessed. We call ",p:70,x:90,y:687,w:470,h:22},
{t:"those fans “hard-core,” and I have to admit that sometimes we can be ",p:70,x:90,y:714,w:461,h:22},
{t:"unsetled by that approach. ",p:70,x:90,y:740,w:187,h:22},
{t:"I’ve been there myself and have thought about my identity as “the ",p:70,x:90,y:767,w:442,h:22},
{t:"smooth cofee drinker” or “the guy who drives cool German cars. ” It ",p:70,x:90,y:794,w:451,h:22},
{t:"sounds silly when I articulate it like that, but each of us wants to fnd ",p:70,x:90,y:820,w:449,h:22},
{t:"identity somewhere. Although we appreciate and are fatered by the ",p:70,x:90,y:847,w:468,h:22},
{t:"devotion of the hard-core fans, we hope that they",p:70,x:90,y:874,w:333,h:22},
{t:"’ ll fnd their true ",p:70,x:424,y:874,w:108,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   63",p:70,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:38 AM",p:70,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"64",p:71,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:71,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"identity in Christ, not just in being a Tird Day fan. I’m aware that many ",p:71,x:90,y:100,w:468,h:22},
{t:"people, including me, get tempted to make an idol out of someone or ",p:71,x:90,y:127,w:475,h:22},
{t:"something and inadvertently replace God. We don’t want anyone to ",p:71,x:90,y:153,w:462,h:22},
{t:"worship Tird Day! Part of our daily challenge as members of Tird Day ",p:71,x:90,y:180,w:479,h:22},
{t:"is to live out of our identity in Christ, because if we have been born ",p:71,x:90,y:207,w:455,h:22},
{t:"again, then that ’s where our real identity lies.",p:71,x:90,y:234,w:291,h:22},
{t:"David Carr, November 2006",p:71,x:370,y:267,w:200,h:23},
{t:"David Carr also sheds some light on Third Day’s fan club",p:71,x:120,y:311,w:451,h:21},
{t:", ",p:71,x:565,y:311,w:11,h:21},
{t:"Gomers.",p:71,x:90,y:337,w:62,h:21},
{t:"With any band that ’s been around more than a few years and ",p:71,x:130,y:393,w:412,h:22},
{t:"enjoyed any level of touring success and song appeal, there is ",p:71,x:151,y:419,w:415,h:22},
{t:"bound to be the formation of some sort of “fan club. ” From ",p:71,x:160,y:446,w:394,h:22},
{t:"the beginning we had talked about making an ofcial atempt ",p:71,x:160,y:473,w:411,h:22},
{t:"at forming a fan club for Tird Day. Tere was the short-lived ",p:71,x:155,y:499,w:405,h:22},
{t:"Tird Herd that all twenty-six members proudly backed with ",p:71,x:140,y:526,w:405,h:22},
{t:"multiple visits to our monthly shows at the Strand Teatre in Marieta, ",p:71,x:90,y:553,w:461,h:22},
{t:"Georgia. Membership came with a complimentary business-card-sized ",p:71,x:90,y:579,w:471,h:22},
{t:"identifcation certifcate and the privilege of knowing they were in the ",p:71,x:90,y:606,w:467,h:22},
{t:"elite circle of all things Tird Day. It didn’t last, and looking back it seems ",p:71,x:90,y:633,w:477,h:22},
{t:"evident that sometimes the best fan clubs usually form on their own.",p:71,x:90,y:659,w:450,h:22},
{t:"Gomer was a woman from the Book of Hosea. She was a prostitute, and ",p:71,x:90,y:686,w:481,h:22},
{t:"and yet God told Hosea to marry her and to love her despite her sin. ",p:71,x:90,y:713,w:468,h:22},
{t:"Our song “Gomer ’s Teme” of our second album, Conspiracy No. 5, ",p:71,x:90,y:739,w:461,h:23},
{t:"is an anthem to compare the parallel universe we live in as followers of ",p:71,x:90,y:766,w:474,h:22},
{t:"Christ to the world of Hosea and Gomer. We are all like Gomer in our ",p:71,x:90,y:793,w:471,h:22},
{t:"sinful state. We all cheat on God the Father and sell ourselves to the ",p:71,x:90,y:819,w:454,h:22},
{t:"world in exchange for cheap thrills, yet God still loves us unconditionally, ",p:71,x:90,y:846,w:484,h:22},
{t:"and with reckless abandon He pursues our hearts endlessly even while ",p:71,x:90,y:873,w:474,h:22},
{t:"we repeat the ofenses.",p:71,x:90,y:899,w:154,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   64",p:71,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:38 AM",p:71,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"65",p:72,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Put Your Hand in Mine",p:72,x:420,y:41,w:150,h:21},
{t:"In 2001 a group of our sincerest fans formed the Gomers and thus ",p:72,x:90,y:100,w:447,h:22},
{t:"changed the landscape of our fan base (and the color of the front row ",p:72,x:90,y:127,w:473,h:22},
{t:"at most of our concerts!). Donned in bright orange T-shirts, at least a few ",p:72,x:90,y:153,w:484,h:22},
{t:"Gomers fock to nearly every show we perform, even concerts on other ",p:72,x:90,y:180,w:484,h:22},
{t:"continents. But one thing that makes it all make sense is the growing ",p:72,x:90,y:207,w:448,h:22},
{t:"camaraderie among the Gomers that seems to transcend Tird Day. At ",p:72,x:90,y:234,w:472,h:22},
{t:"that point it becomes about the body of Christ, not just a band.",p:72,x:90,y:260,w:423,h:22},
{t:"It ’ s just cool!",p:72,x:90,y:287,w:79,h:22},
{t:"David Carr, November 2007",p:72,x:370,y:320,w:199,h:23},
{t:"Third Day’s fans are incredible! The hard-core Gomer fan ",p:72,x:120,y:364,w:457,h:21},
{t:"club members are among the most dedicated and passionate ",p:72,x:90,y:391,w:488,h:21},
{t:"fans you could wish to meet. Wherever we tour in the world, ",p:72,x:90,y:417,w:486,h:21},
{t:"there will always be a contingent of Gomers in the audience. ",p:72,x:90,y:444,w:487,h:21},
{t:"Over the years I have met many, many fans, and some fac-",p:72,x:90,y:471,w:480,h:21},
{t:"es become very familiar. The band might be touring the W est ",p:72,x:90,y:497,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Coast, and we’ll spot a bunch of the same fans at every show —",p:72,x:90,y:524,w:480,h:23},
{t:"that’s some commitment in terms of time, travel, and money",p:72,x:90,y:551,w:481,h:21},
{t:". ",p:72,x:565,y:551,w:11,h:21},
{t:"We might be playing a series of shows in the UK, and not only ",p:72,x:90,y:577,w:485,h:21},
{t:"will European Gomers show up, but some Gomers from the US ",p:72,x:90,y:604,w:485,h:21},
{t:"will have scheduled vacations or business trips in order to catch",p:72,x:90,y:631,w:485,h:21},
{t:"a Third Day concert overseas. When circumstances permit, a ",p:72,x:90,y:658,w:488,h:21},
{t:"walk along the line outside a venue to chat with fans, often ",p:72,x:90,y:684,w:487,h:21},
{t:"accompanying Mac or Tai or David, gives me an opportunity ",p:72,x:90,y:711,w:487,h:21},
{t:"to touch base with these grass-roots supporters of Third Day’s ",p:72,x:90,y:738,w:486,h:21},
{t:"ministry. Similarly, when the guys have a signing session, either ",p:72,x:90,y:764,w:484,h:21},
{t:"at the end of a concert or in a bookstore, I’ll often walk around",p:72,x:90,y:791,w:485,h:21},
{t:"to meet and share the enthusiasm with fans who are waiting ",p:72,x:90,y:818,w:487,h:21},
{t:"for that important autograph or photograph. Oftentimes, fans ",p:72,x:90,y:844,w:487,h:21},
{t:"of the band will e-mail me with a question or a comment about",p:72,x:90,y:871,w:485,h:21},
{t:"some of the audio devotions I post on the Third Day website, ",p:72,x:90,y:898,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   65",p:72,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:39 AM",p:72,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"66",p:73,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:73,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"and over the years I have taken pleasure in responding to these ",p:73,x:90,y:101,w:485,h:21},
{t:"e-mails and to developing friendship with some of these fans.",p:73,x:90,y:127,w:475,h:21},
{t:"I must admit there have been conversations between the ",p:73,x:120,y:154,w:457,h:21},
{t:"guys in the band and me when we’ve wondered if the passion ",p:73,x:90,y:181,w:485,h:21},
{t:"and involvement of the fans sometimes gets too intense and a ",p:73,x:90,y:207,w:485,h:21},
{t:"little out of balance. It’s to that end that I’ve spent some time ",p:73,x:90,y:234,w:486,h:21},
{t:"putting together a how-to on being a Third Day fan.",p:73,x:90,y:261,w:403,h:21},
{t:"Why listening to Third Day’s music can help you on the ",p:73,x:90,y:303,w:435,h:21},
{t:"journey.",p:73,x:90,y:329,w:60,h:21},
{t:"Ever since my teenage years I have been convinced that ",p:73,x:120,y:371,w:457,h:21},
{t:"Christian music is a superb vehicle for evangelism and disciple-",p:73,x:90,y:398,w:480,h:21},
{t:"ship and acts as a strong gateway into a deeper understanding ",p:73,x:90,y:424,w:485,h:21},
{t:"of Scripture and a stronger relationship with the Lord. I believe ",p:73,x:90,y:451,w:484,h:21},
{t:"that these things are beautifully demonstrated in the music and ",p:73,x:90,y:478,w:484,h:21},
{t:"the ministry of Third Day. If fans approach the band’s songs ",p:73,x:90,y:504,w:487,h:21},
{t:"with a readiness to hear from God, then He will surely speak ",p:73,x:90,y:531,w:486,h:21},
{t:"into their open hearts. Our greatest thrill on the road is to hear ",p:73,x:90,y:558,w:485,h:21},
{t:"stories of God putting lives back together, turning people from ",p:73,x:90,y:584,w:485,h:21},
{t:"darkness to light, giving hope in tough situations, mending ",p:73,x:90,y:611,w:488,h:21},
{t:"broken marriages, directing young people to their purposes in ",p:73,x:90,y:638,w:485,h:21},
{t:"life, and using Third Day’s songs to help in these processes. It’s ",p:73,x:90,y:664,w:484,h:21},
{t:"not difficult to imagine a thirty-something married couple at a ",p:73,x:90,y:691,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Third Day concert with their two early teen children and their ",p:73,x:90,y:718,w:485,h:21},
{t:"own parents along with next-door neighbors who don’t yet ",p:73,x:90,y:744,w:488,h:21},
{t:"have a relationship with Jesus. All of them will at some time or ",p:73,x:90,y:771,w:484,h:21},
{t:"another during the concert have an encounter with God.",p:73,x:90,y:798,w:434,h:21},
{t:"Mac Powell loves to base song lyrics directly on Scripture, ",p:73,x:120,y:824,w:455,h:21},
{t:"and these songs can help unpack biblical truth and give us ",p:73,x:90,y:851,w:488,h:21},
{t:"spiritual insights that otherwise we might not have picked up. ",p:73,x:90,y:878,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   66",p:73,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:39 AM",p:73,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"67",p:74,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Put Your Hand in Mine",p:74,x:420,y:41,w:150,h:21},
{t:"I make a habit of using Third Day songs in my own personal ",p:74,x:90,y:101,w:486,h:21},
{t:"devotions, and often these “quiet times” turn into “loud times.” ",p:74,x:90,y:127,w:484,h:21},
{t:"Many people find, whether in the live setting or on a CD, that ",p:74,x:90,y:154,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Third Day helps them engage in worshiping God. Remember ",p:74,x:90,y:181,w:487,h:21},
{t:"that my very first experience of the band was worshiping ",p:74,x:90,y:207,w:489,h:21},
{t:"through its music from the side of the stage while waiting to ",p:74,x:90,y:234,w:486,h:21},
{t:"go on and preach.",p:74,x:90,y:261,w:139,h:21},
{t:"What should a fan’s expectations be concerning the heart of ",p:74,x:90,y:303,w:466,h:21},
{t:"the band? ",p:74,x:90,y:329,w:80,h:21},
{t:"Fans have every right to expect that members of the band ",p:74,x:120,y:371,w:455,h:21},
{t:"will be trying faithfully to serve the Lord as husbands, fathers, ",p:74,x:90,y:398,w:485,h:21},
{t:"brothers in Christ, and band members and that they will be ",p:74,x:90,y:424,w:487,h:21},
{t:"dependent on God for their source and their strength. Fans ",p:74,x:90,y:451,w:488,h:21},
{t:"should expect the guys to be living lives of integrity, honesty, ",p:74,x:90,y:478,w:485,h:21},
{t:"and accountability.",p:74,x:90,y:504,w:146,h:21},
{t:"Fans should expect that the band will put heart and soul ",p:74,x:120,y:531,w:456,h:21},
{t:"into album projects and that the project will be creative, en-",p:74,x:90,y:558,w:480,h:21},
{t:"tertaining, a good value for the money, and, above all, have a ",p:74,x:90,y:584,w:485,h:21},
{t:"message worth communicating.",p:74,x:90,y:611,w:243,h:21},
{t:"However, fans become unrealistic when they have an ex-",p:74,x:120,y:638,w:450,h:21},
{t:"pectation that band members will be spiritual superheroes who ",p:74,x:90,y:664,w:484,h:21},
{t:"never experience difficulty or brokenness and who always ",p:74,x:90,y:691,w:489,h:21},
{t:"have an easy answer to every challenging situation. Each guy ",p:74,x:90,y:718,w:485,h:21},
{t:"in Third Day faces exactly the same daily struggles as each of ",p:74,x:90,y:744,w:485,h:21},
{t:"us—plus some additional ones most of us never experience. ",p:74,x:90,y:771,w:487,h:23},
{t:"Fans should expect the band members to take seriously God’s ",p:74,x:90,y:798,w:486,h:21},
{t:"call on their lives together as a band and to use their public ",p:74,x:90,y:824,w:487,h:21},
{t:"profile wisely as Christian leaders.",p:74,x:90,y:851,w:262,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   67",p:74,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:39 AM",p:74,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"68",p:75,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:75,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"What should the expectations be from the guys in the band ",p:75,x:90,y:101,w:457,h:21},
{t:"about the heart of the fan?",p:75,x:90,y:128,w:205,h:21},
{t:"In some ways it would be accurate to say that band mem-",p:75,x:120,y:169,w:450,h:21},
{t:"bers should expect nothing from fans. By this I mean that no ",p:75,x:90,y:196,w:486,h:21},
{t:"band has a divine right to have fans at all, that no artist has a ",p:75,x:90,y:222,w:485,h:21},
{t:"contract that states his or her fans will buy every album pro-",p:75,x:90,y:249,w:480,h:21},
{t:"duced. And the guys in Third Day certainly do not take their ",p:75,x:90,y:276,w:486,h:21},
{t:"fans for granted.",p:75,x:90,y:303,w:128,h:21},
{t:"Of course, every artist desires fans who are faithful, who ",p:75,x:120,y:329,w:457,h:21},
{t:"spend their hard-earned cash on each new release and each ",p:75,x:90,y:356,w:487,h:21},
{t:"concert ticket, and who champion the cause of the artist to ",p:75,x:90,y:383,w:488,h:21},
{t:"other music fans. Third Day has given fans a “voice” on their ",p:75,x:90,y:409,w:486,h:21},
{t:"website; and I, for one, appreciate feedback but do get disap-",p:75,x:90,y:436,w:480,h:21},
{t:"pointed when it becomes overly critical and too personal (not ",p:75,x:90,y:463,w:486,h:21},
{t:"about me but about guys in the band). The guys of Third Day ",p:75,x:90,y:489,w:485,h:21},
{t:"would rather their fans be “supporters” than just “consumers.” ",p:75,x:90,y:516,w:485,h:21},
{t:"They hope fans would be people who let the music minister ",p:75,x:90,y:543,w:487,h:21},
{t:"to them, who enjoy meeting the band when the opportunity ",p:75,x:90,y:569,w:487,h:21},
{t:"arises, who don’t intrude too much into the band’s personal life ",p:75,x:90,y:596,w:484,h:21},
{t:"or personal space, and who, above all, see through the band ",p:75,x:90,y:623,w:487,h:21},
{t:"and recognize Jesus. ",p:75,x:90,y:649,w:162,h:21},
{t:"How can we be partners in the gospel? What is the link ",p:75,x:90,y:691,w:433,h:21},
{t:"between band and fan?",p:75,x:90,y:718,w:176,h:21},
{t:"I like to see this partnership work on two levels. First, on ",p:75,x:120,y:759,w:456,h:21},
{t:"a personal level: as if each band member echoed the words ",p:75,x:90,y:786,w:487,h:21},
{t:"of the apostle Paul when he said, “And you should follow my ",p:75,x:90,y:813,w:486,h:21},
{t:"example, just as I follow Christ’s” (1 Corinthians 11:1 nlt).",p:75,x:90,y:839,w:445,h:22},
{t:"In other words, don’t try to be like a guy in Third Day; try ",p:75,x:120,y:866,w:455,h:21},
{t:"to be like the Lord of the guy in Third Day. Someone once said ",p:75,x:90,y:892,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   68",p:75,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:39 AM",p:75,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"69",p:76,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Put Your Hand in Mine",p:76,x:420,y:41,w:150,h:21},
{t:"that Christians should look like sheep from the front and like ",p:76,x:90,y:101,w:486,h:21},
{t:"shepherds from behind. To everyone who sees the guys in Third ",p:76,x:90,y:127,w:484,h:21},
{t:"Day as great shepherds to follow, remember that really they are ",p:76,x:90,y:154,w:484,h:21},
{t:"just sheep following the Good Shepherd.",p:76,x:90,y:181,w:311,h:21},
{t:"Second, the partnership works because Third Day is able ",p:76,x:120,y:207,w:457,h:21},
{t:"to introduce and advocate many and varied ministries and to ",p:76,x:90,y:234,w:486,h:21},
{t:"encourage fans to engage with and support these ministries. ",p:76,x:90,y:261,w:487,h:21},
{t:"When Tai steps onto the stage and challenges the audience to ",p:76,x:90,y:288,w:486,h:21},
{t:"find out about Invisible Children, for example, he brings a trust ",p:76,x:90,y:314,w:484,h:21},
{t:"and integrity that mean this is not simply some commercial ",p:76,x:90,y:341,w:487,h:21},
{t:"tie-in but that the members of the band really believe in this ",p:76,x:90,y:368,w:486,h:21},
{t:"project themselves.",p:76,x:90,y:394,w:146,h:21},
{t:"Here’s Tai’s appreciation of Third Day fans:",p:76,x:120,y:421,w:332,h:21},
{t:"Te relationship between band and fans is one that is always ",p:76,x:90,y:476,w:406,h:22},
{t:"full of contradictions. On one hand, the band uses its collec-",p:76,x:90,y:503,w:398,h:22},
{t:"tive brand, imaging, and marketing powers to try to convert ",p:76,x:90,y:530,w:402,h:22},
{t:"the general populace to fan status. At this point, the fan is ",p:76,x:90,y:556,w:382,h:22},
{t:"invited to join the band in concert, for the right price, for a ",p:76,x:90,y:583,w:394,h:22},
{t:"night the band hopes will be full of meaning and signifcance. ",p:76,x:90,y:610,w:409,h:22},
{t:"Once the fan has bought his or her ticket, it then seems as if great ef-",p:76,x:90,y:636,w:454,h:22},
{t:"forts are made to ensure that the fan has as litle access to the band as ",p:76,x:90,y:663,w:466,h:22},
{t:"possible. Armed security guards are ofen placed to keep the fans far ",p:76,x:90,y:690,w:464,h:22},
{t:"from the band’s dressing rooms and buses. A general secret service ",p:76,x:90,y:716,w:451,h:22},
{t:"atmosphere seems to ensure privacy during the entire day of the show. ",p:76,x:90,y:743,w:478,h:22},
{t:"A good portion of our media eforts seem to be focused on convinc-",p:76,x:90,y:770,w:466,h:22},
{t:"ing the public and specifcally current or prospective fans that we are ",p:76,x:90,y:796,w:464,h:22},
{t:"normal people just like them. Ten, on show day, great efort is made to ",p:76,x:90,y:823,w:481,h:22},
{t:"create an atmosphere that indirectly communicates to fans that we are, ",p:76,x:90,y:850,w:470,h:22},
{t:"in fact, not like them, that our time is more precious, and that our pres-",p:76,x:90,y:876,w:465,h:22},
{t:"ence is something that only a select few can enjoy.",p:76,x:90,y:903,w:332,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   69",p:76,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:39 AM",p:76,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"70",p:77,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:77,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"Tis process has always lef us feeling quite uncomfortable, but our ",p:77,x:90,y:100,w:447,h:22},
{t:"lives on the road exist squarely in the middle of these contradictions. ",p:77,x:90,y:127,w:459,h:22},
{t:"We are just fve guys who want to be approachable, but we’re also ",p:77,x:90,y:153,w:449,h:22},
{t:"fve guys who value our privacy. We enjoy spending time with fans and ",p:77,x:90,y:180,w:476,h:22},
{t:"friends we have met along the journey. But, at the same time, our fans’ ",p:77,x:90,y:207,w:465,h:22},
{t:"enthusiasm ofen leaves us uncomfortable. Despite these paradoxes, it ",p:77,x:90,y:234,w:467,h:22},
{t:"would be safe to say that Tird Day as a whole enjoys a very meaningful ",p:77,x:90,y:260,w:482,h:22},
{t:"relationship with our fans. We are very conscious of our fans all through-",p:77,x:90,y:287,w:477,h:22},
{t:"out the creative process, and we are well aware that our livelihoods ",p:77,x:90,y:314,w:453,h:22},
{t:"exist as a direct result of their support. Troughout the years I have met ",p:77,x:90,y:340,w:477,h:22},
{t:"some fans who have shared with me incredible stories of hope and en-",p:77,x:90,y:367,w:473,h:22},
{t:"couragement. So ofen fans express the reason they like the band is that ",p:77,x:90,y:394,w:479,h:22},
{t:"they feel we are very approachable. I think the reason for this is, and ",p:77,x:90,y:420,w:456,h:22},
{t:"will remain the case, that we are in fact Tird Day fans ourselves. When ",p:77,x:90,y:447,w:470,h:22},
{t:"we are creating music, we rarely delve to the realm of artistic self-indul-",p:77,x:90,y:474,w:470,h:22},
{t:"gence. Our focus tends to gravitate toward the musical moments and ",p:77,x:90,y:500,w:463,h:22},
{t:"lyrical messaging that will most succinctly have impact for our fans. As ",p:77,x:90,y:527,w:458,h:22},
{t:"we put shows together, from production blueprints to nightly set lists, ",p:77,x:90,y:554,w:463,h:22},
{t:"our focus is again on creating moments that will make lasting memories ",p:77,x:90,y:580,w:470,h:22},
{t:"and meaning in our fans’ lives. As Tird Day fans ourselves, this process is ",p:77,x:90,y:607,w:482,h:22},
{t:"much easier than it seems. We don’t live in an artistic nirvana, oblivious ",p:77,x:90,y:634,w:470,h:22},
{t:"to the songs and musical moments to which our fans relate. We tend to ",p:77,x:90,y:660,w:476,h:22},
{t:"like the same songs our fans like. Tere is a reason that the hits are hits, ",p:77,x:90,y:687,w:467,h:22},
{t:"and we enjoy playing them because the real fun is when the audience is ",p:77,x:90,y:714,w:483,h:22},
{t:"participating with as much enthusiasm as we are.",p:77,x:90,y:740,w:318,h:22},
{t:"We’ve felt for ourselves the power that a Tird Day show can have. We ",p:77,x:90,y:767,w:478,h:22},
{t:"experience ourselves the moments that keep fans coming back, and we ",p:77,x:90,y:794,w:478,h:22},
{t:"stay hungry for more. We recognize the collective band as something ",p:77,x:90,y:820,w:466,h:22},
{t:"bigger than our individual selves, and we desire for the band to be at ",p:77,x:90,y:847,w:468,h:22},
{t:"its best each night. Ultimately if we have a bad night or aren’t cuting it ",p:77,x:90,y:874,w:467,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   70",p:77,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:39 AM",p:77,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"71",p:78,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Put Your Hand in Mine",p:78,x:420,y:41,w:150,h:21},
{t:"on any given song, we know it in the same way the audience knows it. ",p:78,x:90,y:100,w:467,h:22},
{t:"What gives us a real connection with the fans is that they know we know ",p:78,x:90,y:127,w:482,h:22},
{t:"it, but they also push us on to be at our best. So, when those moments ",p:78,x:90,y:153,w:472,h:22},
{t:"happen—when the concert is really a concert and when the music ",p:78,x:90,y:180,w:448,h:22},
{t:"bridges the gap in just the right way—the fans and the band are all in it ",p:78,x:90,y:207,w:475,h:22},
{t:"together .",p:78,x:90,y:234,w:59,h:22},
{t:"Tai Anderson, October 2006",p:78,x:365,y:267,w:204,h:23},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   71",p:78,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:40 AM",p:78,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"72",p:79,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:79,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   72",p:79,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:40 AM",p:79,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"5",p:80,x:358,y:-45,w:222,h:600},
{t:"Sing a Song",p:80,x:297,y:479,w:272,h:43},
{t:"-sing a song-",p:80,x:222,y:628,w:225,h:50},
{t:"i want to sing a song for You, Lord",p:80,x:121,y:693,w:431,h:53},
{t:"Lord, for You i want to sing a song",p:80,x:122,y:736,w:431,h:53},
{t:"and i want to lift my vo ice to Heaven",p:80,x:105,y:781,w:471,h:52},
{t:"and listen to the angels sing alo ng",p:80,x:120,y:823,w:440,h:53},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   73",p:80,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:41 AM",p:80,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"74",p:81,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:81,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"I ",p:81,x:90,y:91,w:34,h:69},
{t:"can remember vividly the first time I listened to Third Day’s ",p:81,x:107,y:101,w:468,h:21},
{t:"songs. It was in early September 1998, just before head-",p:81,x:107,y:127,w:462,h:21},
{t:"ing out to the US to go on tour with Newsboys. Discovering ",p:81,x:90,y:154,w:487,h:21},
{t:"that Third Day was going to be the support band, I rummaged ",p:81,x:90,y:181,w:485,h:21},
{t:"through a pile of CDs I’d been given earlier in the year at the ",p:81,x:90,y:207,w:486,h:21},
{t:"GMA conference in Nashville. Sure enough, Conspiracy No. 5 ",p:81,x:90,y:234,w:485,h:21},
{t:"was one of the free CDs I hadn’t gotten around listening to. I ",p:81,x:90,y:261,w:486,h:21},
{t:"thought to myself that if I was going to be meeting these guys ",p:81,x:90,y:288,w:485,h:21},
{t:"soon, I should at least catch up on their music. I enjoyed the ",p:81,x:90,y:314,w:486,h:21},
{t:"album but didn’t realize that some of the songs on it, and more, ",p:81,x:90,y:341,w:484,h:21},
{t:"would become very significant in my life before too long.",p:81,x:90,y:368,w:444,h:21},
{t:"Third Day’s ministry is an intricate mix of original songs, ",p:81,x:120,y:394,w:456,h:21},
{t:"well-produced albums, and relentless touring. What at times ",p:81,x:90,y:421,w:487,h:21},
{t:"might simply appear to be the act of singing a song takes on ",p:81,x:90,y:448,w:486,h:21},
{t:"so much more significance in the lives of legions of fans—",p:81,x:90,y:474,w:480,h:23},
{t:"whether listening to a CD or watching the band live. What ",p:81,x:90,y:501,w:488,h:21},
{t:"about the band members themselves? What did the songs mean ",p:81,x:90,y:528,w:484,h:21},
{t:"to them when they wrote them or now when they play them? ",p:81,x:90,y:554,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Does the same song in the same spot in the concert night after ",p:81,x:90,y:581,w:485,h:21},
{t:"night retain the same impact? How do the guys approach each ",p:81,x:90,y:608,w:485,h:21},
{t:"concert afresh? Does each concert leave a powerful memory? ",p:81,x:90,y:634,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Is it possible? Well, let’s discover.",p:81,x:90,y:661,w:256,h:21},
{t:"I try to ofer my drumming to God as worship, especially if I’m ",p:81,x:141,y:716,w:413,h:22},
{t:"having a tough show. I’ll be thinking about something com-",p:81,x:156,y:743,w:389,h:22},
{t:"pletely diferent—organizing my CDs at home—and I have ",p:81,x:160,y:770,w:396,h:22},
{t:"to consciously move back to worship. I tried raising my hands ",p:81,x:158,y:796,w:409,h:22},
{t:"in worship once in a concert, but it didn’t really work; the tim-",p:81,x:151,y:823,w:408,h:22},
{t:"ing of the song went to pieces!",p:81,x:125,y:850,w:207,h:22},
{t:"Funny, but the songs that excite me the most, we have never ever ",p:81,x:90,y:876,w:438,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   74",p:81,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:41 AM",p:81,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"75",p:82,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Sing a Song",p:82,x:494,y:41,w:76,h:21},
{t:"played live! “Give” from Time would be in the set list if it were up to ",p:82,x:90,y:100,w:456,h:23},
{t:"me. I love the lyrics and the mood from the song “I Don’t Know” from ",p:82,x:90,y:127,w:463,h:22},
{t:"Come Together, and “Blind” from Wire would also feature on my fantasy ",p:82,x:90,y:153,w:484,h:23},
{t:"set list. Tose are the types of songs I really enjoy. Of the stuf we play ",p:82,x:90,y:180,w:468,h:22},
{t:"in our set, “Tunnel,",p:82,x:90,y:207,w:122,h:22},
{t:"” “Come on Back to Me,” and “Creed” are the songs ",p:82,x:210,y:207,w:342,h:22},
{t:"I enjoy playing live. About “Creed”: I was a big fan of Rich Mullins, and ",p:82,x:90,y:233,w:465,h:22},
{t:"as a kid I used to go to a church where we said the creed every week, ",p:82,x:90,y:260,w:471,h:22},
{t:"so it ’s a very special song for that reason. All of us in the band have our ",p:82,x:90,y:287,w:475,h:22},
{t:"favorite songs, and each member of the audience does, too. I’d really ",p:82,x:90,y:314,w:462,h:22},
{t:"have a blast with my own personal set list, but it might be kind of boring ",p:82,x:90,y:340,w:482,h:22},
{t:"for everyone else!",p:82,x:90,y:367,w:122,h:22},
{t:"David Carr, November 2006",p:82,x:370,y:400,w:200,h:23},
{t:"I’m sitting in a Starbucks just outside of Atlanta; Tai An-",p:82,x:120,y:459,w:450,h:21},
{t:"derson’s truck is parked outside, and it’s full of Third Day suit-",p:82,x:90,y:486,w:479,h:21},
{t:"cases. We’ve just come back overnight on the tour bus from ",p:82,x:90,y:512,w:487,h:21},
{t:"a run of four concerts in Florida on the Wherever You Are ",p:82,x:90,y:539,w:485,h:21},
{t:"tour, and the guys are doing some breakfast radio before they ",p:82,x:90,y:566,w:485,h:21},
{t:"head back to their homes. Champ, our bus driver, has headed ",p:82,x:90,y:592,w:486,h:21},
{t:"off now, so I’m looking after luggage until the guys finish the ",p:82,x:90,y:619,w:485,h:21},
{t:"radio stuff. On the way to unload bags, Champ and I were hav-",p:82,x:90,y:646,w:480,h:21},
{t:"ing a conversation about miles traveled with the band. I reck-",p:82,x:90,y:672,w:480,h:21},
{t:"oned my 200,000-plus miles of transatlantic flights was pretty ",p:82,x:90,y:699,w:485,h:21},
{t:"impressive until Champ matter-of-factly mentioned that over ",p:82,x:90,y:726,w:486,h:21},
{t:"the years he had driven well in excess of 750,000 miles for the ",p:82,x:90,y:753,w:485,h:21},
{t:"band. That puts into perspective the sheer volume of concerts ",p:82,x:90,y:779,w:486,h:21},
{t:"and the longevity of Third Day’s career so far.",p:82,x:90,y:806,w:354,h:21},
{t:"This chapter reveals that a commitment to hard work, trav-",p:82,x:120,y:833,w:450,h:21},
{t:"el, and a strong vision are some of the prerequisites for a last-",p:82,x:90,y:859,w:480,h:21},
{t:"ing and fruitful ministry. In other words, we are going to delve ",p:82,x:90,y:886,w:484,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   75",p:82,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:42 AM",p:82,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"76",p:83,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:83,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"into some of our memorable tours and concerts. ",p:83,x:90,y:101,w:375,h:21},
{t:"Tai takes us back to the early days:",p:83,x:120,y:127,w:269,h:21},
{t:"One of my most memorable concert moments is quite an unlikely ",p:83,x:133,y:183,w:440,h:22},
{t:"choice. When I think back through the years, we’ve had some ",p:83,x:153,y:209,w:412,h:22},
{t:"amazing shows. At times we’ve played for tens of thousands ",p:83,x:158,y:236,w:400,h:22},
{t:"at festivals around the country. We’ve packed out clubs in ",p:83,x:158,y:263,w:386,h:22},
{t:"London. We’ve played in rock clubs and arenas. Te audience ",p:83,x:153,y:289,w:418,h:22},
{t:"has ofen been so loud that we couldn’t hear ourselves onstage. ",p:83,x:135,y:316,w:429,h:22},
{t:"However, one of my most memorable moments came quite early on in ",p:83,x:90,y:343,w:476,h:22},
{t:"the band’s history. It was probably about 1996. We had just played at ",p:83,x:90,y:369,w:467,h:22},
{t:"a church in Tulsa called Guts where they have a cuting-edge outreach ",p:83,x:90,y:396,w:471,h:22},
{t:"to the unchurched, bikers, and street kids. Afer the show, the audi-",p:83,x:90,y:423,w:443,h:22},
{t:"ence gave us a “love ofering” for payment. Tat gave us gas money to ",p:83,x:90,y:450,w:470,h:22},
{t:"make it to our next show, a Disciple Now weekend at a Baptist church ",p:83,x:90,y:475,w:466,h:23},
{t:"in Longview, Texas. We were going to be the band for the weekend, ",p:83,x:90,y:503,w:462,h:22},
{t:"doing a couple of concerts and leading worship for the one hundred ",p:83,x:90,y:529,w:469,h:22},
{t:"or so high school students.",p:83,x:90,y:556,w:176,h:22},
{t:"On the way to the show, I picked up a hitchhiker on the side of the ",p:83,x:90,y:583,w:449,h:22},
{t:"highway. Growing up I had always heard stories of how people had ",p:83,x:90,y:609,w:453,h:22},
{t:"picked up hitchhikers and had amazing conversations with them, ",p:83,x:90,y:636,w:429,h:22},
{t:"eventually leading them to the Lord. To say that I was spiritually zeal-",p:83,x:90,y:663,w:452,h:22},
{t:"ous at nineteen would probably be an understatement. So I picked ",p:83,x:90,y:689,w:453,h:22},
{t:"up this guy who happened to say that he was going to the same town ",p:83,x:90,y:716,w:469,h:22},
{t:"we were: Providence. Picking up a hitchhiker is a noble, though illegal, ",p:83,x:90,y:743,w:463,h:22},
{t:"undertaking when you’re driving yourself somewhere, but when you’re ",p:83,x:90,y:770,w:476,h:22},
{t:"driving a van and trailer with other people, it ’s probably best to discuss ",p:83,x:90,y:796,w:476,h:22},
{t:"it with your bandmates. By the time we made the trip to Longview, the ",p:83,x:90,y:823,w:471,h:22},
{t:"rest of the band was prety ticked at me for picking up a guy who had ",p:83,x:90,y:850,w:469,h:22},
{t:"told a series of ridiculous stories for fve solid hours. Who could have ",p:83,x:90,y:876,w:464,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   76",p:83,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:42 AM",p:83,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"77",p:84,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Sing a Song",p:84,x:494,y:41,w:76,h:21},
{t:"known that this guy on the highway was a former British secret agent ",p:84,x:90,y:100,w:455,h:22},
{t:"who was an expert marksman and viper killer turned test pilot and, ",p:84,x:90,y:127,w:446,h:22},
{t:"fnally, a long-haul truck driver with a broken-down rig? ",p:84,x:90,y:153,w:370,h:22},
{t:"When we arrived in Longview, our hitchhiker headed for the non-",p:84,x:90,y:180,w:441,h:22},
{t:"existent Texas hills, and we headed to the church to set up for the ",p:84,x:90,y:207,w:440,h:22},
{t:"weekend. Tere we found one of those situations that happened so ",p:84,x:90,y:234,w:458,h:22},
{t:"ofen in the early days: the equipment we needed wasn’t there. In those ",p:84,x:90,y:260,w:483,h:22},
{t:"days, David, Brad, and I were the only ones who knew which side of a ",p:84,x:90,y:287,w:465,h:22},
{t:"microphone to plug the cable into (which is still prety much true). So ",p:84,x:90,y:314,w:463,h:22},
{t:"we had the task of seting up the stage. Since I was also in charge of the ",p:84,x:90,y:340,w:476,h:22},
{t:"merchandise, I had to set up our table in the hallway of the youth room ",p:84,x:90,y:367,w:478,h:22},
{t:"as well. ",p:84,x:90,y:394,w:50,h:22},
{t:"I got into a really bad mood: the other guys in the band were ticked at ",p:84,x:90,y:420,w:473,h:22},
{t:"me for the hitchhiker incident; a bunch of the T-shirts I had shipped to ",p:84,x:90,y:447,w:470,h:22},
{t:"the show hadn’t shown up; the PA and lights were totally lame; and to ",p:84,x:90,y:474,w:466,h:22},
{t:"top it of, the turnout for the retreat weekend was going to be smaller ",p:84,x:90,y:500,w:467,h:22},
{t:"than expected. In the world of a fedgling Christian rocker, this was just a ",p:84,x:90,y:527,w:480,h:22},
{t:"really bad day.",p:84,x:90,y:554,w:96,h:22},
{t:"About this time, I took a moment to myself to pray. Whenever I read ",p:84,x:90,y:580,w:458,h:22},
{t:"about someone praying, I imagine that person to be a great spiritual ",p:84,x:90,y:607,w:458,h:22},
{t:"giant with a broadband pipeline directly into the throne room of God. ",p:84,x:90,y:634,w:474,h:22},
{t:"I believe that God hears our prayers. But, I assure you, I wasn’t feeling ",p:84,x:90,y:660,w:460,h:22},
{t:"or acting like a spiritual giant at the time; I was just a ticked-of teenager ",p:84,x:90,y:687,w:474,h:22},
{t:"who was feeling sorry for himself and not really feeling satisfed with the ",p:84,x:90,y:714,w:479,h:22},
{t:"pace of progress my band was experiencing.",p:84,x:90,y:740,w:297,h:22},
{t:"In this youth room in Texas, I had an experience where I felt, and still ",p:84,x:90,y:767,w:454,h:22},
{t:"believe, I heard from God. Whenever anyone talks about hearing from ",p:84,x:90,y:794,w:475,h:22},
{t:"God, a picture of a Christian giant quickly erodes to a picture of a nut ",p:84,x:90,y:820,w:466,h:22},
{t:"job who belongs in a loony bin with a straitjacket or of a televangelist ",p:84,x:90,y:847,w:463,h:22},
{t:"who needs just a few more million dollars. It ’s one thing to talk to God; ",p:84,x:90,y:874,w:471,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   77",p:84,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:42 AM",p:84,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"78",p:85,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:85,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"it ’ s quite another to hear from God. However, I, and probably you, do ",p:85,x:90,y:100,w:470,h:22},
{t:"believe that God still speaks. Te question is: How do you know when ",p:85,x:90,y:127,w:472,h:22},
{t:"it ’ s Him talking and not just your own imagination? I’ve heard many a ",p:85,x:90,y:153,w:457,h:22},
{t:"pastor describe the way to discern God’s voice is that it is a voice that ",p:85,x:90,y:180,w:466,h:22},
{t:"sounds a lot like your own but contains wisdom you do not possess. At ",p:85,x:90,y:207,w:476,h:22},
{t:"nineteen years old, any thought containing wisdom was probably God’s ",p:85,x:90,y:234,w:480,h:22},
{t:"voice, because I assure you that I didn’t contain any myself. ",p:85,x:90,y:260,w:390,h:22},
{t:"In that moment, I heard, felt, or thought an idea that has proved to con-",p:85,x:90,y:287,w:473,h:22},
{t:"tain wisdom I know I didn’t possess at the time. Te message was simple: ",p:85,x:90,y:314,w:482,h:22},
{t:"If you’re not happy and content now, you ’ll never be happy or content. ",p:85,x:90,y:339,w:480,h:24},
{t:"Tat was exactly what I needed to hear in that particular moment in ",p:85,x:90,y:367,w:451,h:22},
{t:"my life: I was geting to play music, geting to travel on the road, geting ",p:85,x:90,y:393,w:474,h:22},
{t:"paid to play music, and I was a part of events where the gospel was go-",p:85,x:90,y:420,w:476,h:22},
{t:"ing forth. What more did I want? Sexier numbers?",p:85,x:90,y:447,w:333,h:22},
{t:"I hope you’re not disappointed. I didn’t promise a great revelation. But ",p:85,x:90,y:474,w:474,h:22},
{t:"that simple statement has been one of the more fundamental points ",p:85,x:90,y:500,w:456,h:22},
{t:"of inspiration and blessing for my entire life. You see, in this business ",p:85,x:90,y:527,w:452,h:22},
{t:"and probably in yours as well and in life itself, we’re always striving for ",p:85,x:90,y:554,w:465,h:22},
{t:"the next big thing. When you’re in a band, you are always looking for a ",p:85,x:90,y:580,w:473,h:22},
{t:"higher chart position, more albums sold, or beter atendance. You set ",p:85,x:90,y:607,w:469,h:22},
{t:"goals and strive to see those goals realized. Te problem is that there ",p:85,x:90,y:634,w:464,h:22},
{t:"is ofen an emptiness that accompanies actually achieving those goals. ",p:85,x:90,y:660,w:464,h:22},
{t:"Afer you have a number one single, anything else is a disappointment. ",p:85,x:90,y:687,w:475,h:22},
{t:"Afer you sell out a theater, you want to sell out an arena. Afer you get ",p:85,x:90,y:714,w:474,h:22},
{t:"a gold record, you want a platinum record. Afer you reach platinum, ",p:85,x:90,y:740,w:460,h:22},
{t:"you want to double down. All that is fne and good; it ’s just the way life ",p:85,x:90,y:767,w:474,h:22},
{t:"is and always will be. Te problem is that so ofen we are never happy ",p:85,x:90,y:794,w:472,h:22},
{t:"or content, not ever, no mater what. ",p:85,x:90,y:820,w:246,h:22},
{t:"We’ve had a lot of success in Tird Day. We’ve achieved so many goals, ",p:85,x:90,y:847,w:471,h:22},
{t:"and we continue to set new ones. I’m incredibly driven. I’m always look-",p:85,x:90,y:874,w:467,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   78",p:85,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:42 AM",p:85,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"79",p:86,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Sing a Song",p:86,x:494,y:41,w:76,h:21},
{t:"ing ahead. But, foundationally for me, when it ’s show time, when the al-",p:86,x:90,y:100,w:459,h:22},
{t:"bum sales reports are all in, I go back to Longview, Texas. Because of that ",p:86,x:90,y:125,w:479,h:24},
{t:"experience, I’ve been able to enjoy the journey. So many other musicians ",p:86,x:90,y:153,w:483,h:22},
{t:"I’ve met have missed it. Tey’re never happy. Maybe it ’s a required ingre-",p:86,x:90,y:180,w:480,h:22},
{t:"dient to be a tortured soul—a requirement to be a truly inspired artist. ",p:86,x:90,y:207,w:469,h:22},
{t:"But for me, I remember Longview. Afer ten years of incredible successes ",p:86,x:90,y:234,w:480,h:22},
{t:"and incredible failures, I can honestly say that I’ve truly enjoyed it all. I’ve ",p:86,x:90,y:260,w:471,h:22},
{t:"enjoyed the crowds of ffy, and I’ve enjoyed the crowds of ffy thou-",p:86,x:90,y:287,w:457,h:22},
{t:"sand. We’ve done over a thousand concerts, but the one I think about ",p:86,x:90,y:314,w:466,h:22},
{t:"the most was a Disciple Now weekend in Longview, Texas.",p:86,x:90,y:340,w:382,h:23},
{t:"Tai Anderson, October 2006",p:86,x:365,y:381,w:204,h:23},
{t:"I’ve got many, many personal memories of concerts and ",p:86,x:120,y:425,w:457,h:21},
{t:"life on the road. I’ll highlight just a few here. Being part of the ",p:86,x:90,y:452,w:485,h:21},
{t:"first-ever Third Day show in the UK in June 2004 was a real ",p:86,x:90,y:478,w:486,h:21},
{t:"thrill for me, especially when at one stage earlier in the day it ",p:86,x:90,y:505,w:485,h:21},
{t:"looked like the band wasn’t going to be allowed in the country ",p:86,x:90,y:532,w:485,h:21},
{t:"(I’ve told that story in chapter 2). While praying with the band ",p:86,x:90,y:558,w:485,h:21},
{t:"in a cramped dressing room in the Forum, a legendary London ",p:86,x:90,y:585,w:485,h:21},
{t:"rock ’n’ roll venue, I have to admit that I shed a tear and was ",p:86,x:90,y:612,w:485,h:21},
{t:"momentarily overcome by the emotion of the moment. Having ",p:86,x:90,y:638,w:485,h:21},
{t:"traveled extensively with Third Day all over America, it was ",p:86,x:90,y:665,w:487,h:21},
{t:"significant for me when they actually walked onto a stage in ",p:86,x:90,y:692,w:486,h:21},
{t:"my home country. The band, too, rated that night as a special ",p:86,x:90,y:718,w:485,h:21},
{t:"one—a crowd of over two thousand (massive for UK Christian ",p:86,x:90,y:745,w:485,h:23},
{t:"concerts) knew all the words of the songs and gave the guys a ",p:86,x:90,y:772,w:485,h:21},
{t:"rapturous reception. As well as being the MC and speaker for ",p:86,x:90,y:798,w:486,h:21},
{t:"the night, I also spent half the concert in the local supermarket ",p:86,x:90,y:825,w:484,h:21},
{t:"stocking up with food for the tour bus—they needed someone ",p:86,x:90,y:851,w:485,h:23},
{t:"with local knowledge. ",p:86,x:90,y:878,w:174,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   79",p:86,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:42 AM",p:86,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"80",p:87,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:87,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"For me, it’s the seemingly small and mundane memories ",p:87,x:120,y:101,w:457,h:21},
{t:"that last in my mind as much as the big occasions. Similarly, ",p:87,x:90,y:127,w:486,h:21},
{t:"when the band performed in my home city of Cardiff, Wales, ",p:87,x:90,y:154,w:486,h:21},
{t:"in June 2005, it was a very special night. The venue was a ",p:87,x:90,y:181,w:487,h:21},
{t:"small club at Cardiff University, but it was packed out. In 2005 ",p:87,x:90,y:207,w:485,h:21},
{t:"and 2007, Third Day played this venue—probably the smallest ",p:87,x:90,y:234,w:485,h:23},
{t:"place they ever play nowadays. Yet because it was my home, ",p:87,x:90,y:261,w:486,h:21},
{t:"and my ministry Ignite was partnering with Third Day, the ",p:87,x:90,y:288,w:488,h:21},
{t:"concerts took on great significance. Certainly for my friends, ",p:87,x:90,y:314,w:486,h:21},
{t:"family, and ministry colleagues, these Cardiff concerts were ",p:87,x:90,y:341,w:488,h:21},
{t:"an opportunity to see a Third Day concert and to gain a better ",p:87,x:90,y:368,w:485,h:21},
{t:"understanding of why I spend time with the band and the type ",p:87,x:90,y:394,w:485,h:21},
{t:"of ministry we offer, all over the world.  Standing at the back ",p:87,x:90,y:421,w:485,h:21},
{t:"in the Third Day set at the first Cardiff concert alongside my ",p:87,x:90,y:448,w:486,h:21},
{t:"colleague Gary Smith, we reminisced about the first concert we ",p:87,x:90,y:474,w:484,h:21},
{t:"had promoted in Cardiff in 1995. It had been with a duo called ",p:87,x:90,y:501,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Phil and John, good friends of ours. Three days before the con-",p:87,x:90,y:528,w:479,h:21},
{t:"cert, we had not sold one ticket and had to cancel. Gary and I ",p:87,x:90,y:554,w:485,h:21},
{t:"spent the evening of the canceled concert standing outside the ",p:87,x:90,y:581,w:485,h:21},
{t:"church venue to apologize to anyone who turned up!",p:87,x:90,y:608,w:409,h:21},
{t:"Two concerts in Sydney, Australia, at the Hillsong Conven-",p:87,x:120,y:634,w:449,h:21},
{t:"tion Centre also remain in my memory, especially as each of ",p:87,x:90,y:661,w:486,h:21},
{t:"them was on Australia Day, which is their equivalent of Inde-",p:87,x:90,y:688,w:479,h:21},
{t:"pendence Day. Being a big cricket fan as a child, I had listened ",p:87,x:90,y:714,w:485,h:21},
{t:"to cricket matches from Australia on my transistor radio tucked ",p:87,x:90,y:741,w:484,h:21},
{t:"up in bed in a cold British winter. Years and years later, I’ve ",p:87,x:90,y:768,w:486,h:21},
{t:"been privileged to visit Australia twice with Third Day and, ",p:87,x:90,y:794,w:487,h:21},
{t:"because of God’s grace, have seen some of the cricket grounds ",p:87,x:90,y:821,w:485,h:21},
{t:"I had grown up dreaming about! Much more important than ",p:87,x:90,y:848,w:487,h:21},
{t:"cricket, though, has been the opportunity to partner with the ",p:87,x:90,y:874,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   80",p:87,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:42 AM",p:87,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"81",p:88,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Sing a Song",p:88,x:494,y:41,w:76,h:21},
{t:"body of Christ across the world and meet some fine Christians. ",p:88,x:90,y:101,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Through Third Day’s tours in Australia, I’ve struck up a friend-",p:88,x:90,y:127,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ship with a man named Andy Gourley, who hosted us twice in ",p:88,x:90,y:154,w:485,h:21},
{t:"the city of Brisbane. Like me, Andy is a sports fan, and he’ll be ",p:88,x:90,y:181,w:485,h:21},
{t:"coming over to Cardiff, Wales, for the next Rugby World Cup ",p:88,x:90,y:207,w:486,h:21},
{t:"tournament to share in some sport-based outreach programs ",p:88,x:90,y:234,w:487,h:21},
{t:"with me.",p:88,x:90,y:261,w:66,h:21},
{t:"Of all the great American cities I have visited with Third ",p:88,x:120,y:288,w:457,h:21},
{t:"Day—New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Nash-",p:88,x:90,y:314,w:480,h:23},
{t:"ville, San Francisco, Boston, Las Vegas, Orlando, the list could ",p:88,x:90,y:341,w:485,h:21},
{t:"go on and on—one of my favorite memories is of a concert in ",p:88,x:90,y:367,w:485,h:23},
{t:"Fort Wayne, Indiana. Fort Wayne is my home away from home ",p:88,x:90,y:394,w:484,h:21},
{t:"because I have a close friendship with Heartland Church there, ",p:88,x:90,y:421,w:485,h:21},
{t:"and often on days off from touring I would fly to Fort Wayne ",p:88,x:90,y:448,w:485,h:21},
{t:"to minister in the church. In the fall of 2006 we played in Fort ",p:88,x:90,y:474,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Wayne, and for me it was a little like two worlds colliding. ",p:88,x:90,y:501,w:487,h:21},
{t:"Friends who I’d always try to see in between Third Day shows ",p:88,x:90,y:528,w:485,h:21},
{t:"were now at a concert for themselves. Students who I had last ",p:88,x:90,y:554,w:485,h:21},
{t:"seen on a spring break mission trip to the UK the previous ",p:88,x:90,y:581,w:488,h:21},
{t:"March were rushing up to me in the lobby with greetings. A ",p:88,x:90,y:608,w:486,h:21},
{t:"young woman who had interned with Ignite in Cardiff a few ",p:88,x:90,y:634,w:486,h:21},
{t:"years before came along with her fiancé. For years, Mac had ",p:88,x:90,y:661,w:486,h:21},
{t:"been gently joking with me about my frequent visits to Fort ",p:88,x:90,y:688,w:487,h:21},
{t:"Wayne, so it was good to finally go there with the band.",p:88,x:90,y:714,w:434,h:21},
{t:"Looking back over the last six or seven years, I believe ",p:88,x:120,y:741,w:458,h:21},
{t:"one of the most important concert memories was in Belfast on ",p:88,x:90,y:768,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Third Day’s first UK tour. I had been traveling with the band ",p:88,x:90,y:794,w:486,h:21},
{t:"for up to ten weeks a year; and through all that my wife, Gill, ",p:88,x:90,y:821,w:485,h:21},
{t:"had faithfully looked after our children, run our home, worked ",p:88,x:90,y:848,w:485,h:21},
{t:"full-time as a teacher, and released me to travel with the guys. ",p:88,x:90,y:874,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   81",p:88,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:42 AM",p:88,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"82",p:89,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:89,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"At long last, at the Belfast concert Gill would see the band ",p:89,x:90,y:101,w:488,h:21},
{t:"perform live for the first time and meet the guys face to face. ",p:89,x:90,y:127,w:486,h:21},
{t:"One or two of the band members had often spoken to Gill by ",p:89,x:90,y:154,w:486,h:21},
{t:"phone and expressed their gratitude, but in Belfast, Mac made ",p:89,x:90,y:181,w:485,h:21},
{t:"a special point of mentioning Gill and me from the stage.",p:89,x:90,y:207,w:442,h:21},
{t:"When Gill saw the show and saw thousands of people wor-",p:89,x:120,y:234,w:449,h:21},
{t:"shiping the Lord and being thoroughly blessed by the music, ",p:89,x:90,y:261,w:486,h:21},
{t:"she realized that the time I spent with Third Day was worth ",p:89,x:90,y:288,w:487,h:21},
{t:"it. Sitting in the hotel after the concert, chatting and relaxing ",p:89,x:90,y:314,w:486,h:21},
{t:"with the guys, Gill was able to get to know them a little and ",p:89,x:90,y:341,w:486,h:21},
{t:"understand even more about the heart of Third Day. David Carr ",p:89,x:90,y:368,w:484,h:21},
{t:"is my wife’s favorite, but don’t let the other guys in on that ",p:89,x:90,y:394,w:487,h:21},
{t:"secret.",p:89,x:90,y:421,w:48,h:21},
{t:"Third Day combined with Michael W. Smith and Max Lu-",p:89,x:120,y:448,w:449,h:21},
{t:"cado for the Come Together and Worship tour, and we would ",p:89,x:90,y:474,w:486,h:21},
{t:"listen every night to Max speaking from stage about the first ",p:89,x:90,y:501,w:486,h:21},
{t:"mention of worship in the Bible. It was in the story of God ask-",p:89,x:90,y:528,w:480,h:21},
{t:"ing Abraham to sacrifice his son on the altar. Max used to ex-",p:89,x:90,y:554,w:479,h:21},
{t:"plain that if we had no other example of worship in the whole ",p:89,x:90,y:581,w:485,h:21},
{t:"of Scripture, then this one would be enough. The boy Isaac was ",p:89,x:90,y:608,w:484,h:21},
{t:"the biggest thing that had happened to Abraham and his wife ",p:89,x:90,y:634,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Sarah, and God was testing Abraham to see if he was prepared ",p:89,x:90,y:661,w:485,h:21},
{t:"to offer his “biggest thing.” ",p:89,x:90,y:688,w:215,h:21},
{t:"Over recent years Christians might have often thought ",p:89,x:120,y:714,w:460,h:21},
{t:"worship to be a song style, but actually it’s a lifestyle. Max re-",p:89,x:90,y:741,w:479,h:21},
{t:"minded us that worshiping God doesn’t mean just giving Him a ",p:89,x:90,y:768,w:484,h:21},
{t:"few verses of a song or a Bible verse or a couple of hours of our ",p:89,x:90,y:794,w:484,h:21},
{t:"time, but it means giving Him our “biggest thing.” Worship in-",p:89,x:90,y:821,w:479,h:21},
{t:"volves sacrifice, and the theme of worship has often appeared ",p:89,x:90,y:848,w:485,h:21},
{t:"in our devotional times. Abraham was prepared to sacrifice his ",p:89,x:90,y:874,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   82",p:89,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:43 AM",p:89,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"83",p:90,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Sing a Song",p:90,x:494,y:41,w:76,h:21},
{t:"biggest thing, but the rich young ruler who wouldn’t give up ",p:90,x:90,y:101,w:486,h:21},
{t:"his wealth wanted to keep his biggest thing for himself.",p:90,x:90,y:127,w:427,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   83",p:90,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:43 AM",p:90,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"84",p:91,x:90,y:944,w:17,h:21},
{t:"AN AUDIENCE oF oNE",p:91,x:120,y:353,w:304,h:48},
{t:"We can learn so much about worship ",p:91,x:120,y:429,w:408,h:36},
{t:"from the story of Mary and Martha in the ",p:91,x:120,y:465,w:448,h:36},
{t:"gospels of Luke and John. ",p:91,x:120,y:501,w:284,h:36},
{t:"As Jesus and the disciples continued on their way to Jerusalem, ",p:91,x:157,y:599,w:409,h:21},
{t:"they came to a village where a woman named Martha welcomed ",p:91,x:157,y:626,w:413,h:21},
{t:"them into her home. Her sister, Mary, sat at the Lord’s feet, lis-",p:91,x:157,y:652,w:400,h:21},
{t:"tening to what he taught. But Martha was worrying over the big ",p:91,x:157,y:679,w:410,h:21},
{t:"dinner she was preparing. She came to Jesus and said, “Lord, ",p:91,x:157,y:706,w:399,h:21},
{t:"doesn’t it seem unfair to you that my sister just sits here while I ",p:91,x:157,y:732,w:412,h:21},
{t:"do all the work? Tell her to come and help me.” ",p:91,x:157,y:759,w:303,h:21},
{t:"But the Lord said to her, “My dear Martha, you are so upset ",p:91,x:157,y:786,w:380,h:21},
{t:"over all these details! There is really only one thing worth being ",p:91,x:157,y:812,w:409,h:21},
{t:"concerned about. Mary has discovered it—and I won’t take it ",p:91,x:157,y:839,w:396,h:21},
{t:"away from her.”—Luke 10:38–42 nlt",p:91,x:157,y:866,w:235,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   84",p:91,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:43 AM",p:91,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"85",p:92,x:552,y:944,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Martha showed hospitality and compassion. She wanted to get the ",p:92,x:105,y:100,w:440,h:21},
{t:"details right so that Jesus would be welcomed on His visit. What she ",p:92,x:90,y:127,w:455,h:21},
{t:"did was good, but it wasn’t the most important thing to be concerned ",p:92,x:90,y:154,w:454,h:21},
{t:"about. Mary, however, had her priorities correct and realized that Jesus ",p:92,x:90,y:180,w:453,h:21},
{t:"was the real worship leader, that worship is all about being preoccu-",p:92,x:90,y:207,w:449,h:21},
{t:"pied with the Lord Himself, and that true worship focuses on an audi-",p:92,x:90,y:234,w:449,h:21},
{t:"ence of one—God. Even when we’d rather do something else, we need ",p:92,x:90,y:260,w:454,h:21},
{t:"to worship—that’s where the sacrifce comes in!",p:92,x:90,y:287,w:312,h:21},
{t:"What we call worship in contemporary settings the Bible really de-",p:92,x:105,y:314,w:434,h:21},
{t:"fnes as praise. There are three Hebrew words that might accurately ",p:92,x:90,y:340,w:455,h:21},
{t:"describe our modern-day praise and worship: halal, making a noise; ",p:92,x:90,y:367,w:455,h:22},
{t:"zamar, singing or playing music; and zada, bodily actions or gestures. ",p:92,x:90,y:394,w:454,h:22},
{t:"However, we would do well to digest Paul’s plea: “Therefore, I urge you, ",p:92,x:90,y:420,w:453,h:21},
{t:"brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacri-",p:92,x:90,y:447,w:449,h:21},
{t:"fces, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship” ",p:92,x:90,y:474,w:454,h:21},
{t:"(Romans 12:1 niv). Worship is about life, not just lips. Our instruments ",p:92,x:90,y:500,w:454,h:21},
{t:"don’t actually lead the worship—they just lead to the worship.",p:92,x:90,y:527,w:401,h:22},
{t:"In John 11, Mary and Martha give us another contrast in attitudes. ",p:92,x:105,y:554,w:440,h:21},
{t:"Their brother Lazarus has died, and they speak the same words to Jesus. ",p:92,x:90,y:580,w:453,h:21},
{t:"“Martha said to Jesus, ‘Lord, if you had been here, my brother would ",p:92,x:90,y:607,w:455,h:21},
{t:"not have died. But even now I know that God will give you whatever you ",p:92,x:90,y:634,w:453,h:21},
{t:"ask’” (John 11:21–22 nlt). Mary, however, speaks from a position of ",p:92,x:90,y:660,w:456,h:21},
{t:"worship at the feet of Jesus. “When Mary arrived and saw Jesus, she fell ",p:92,x:90,y:687,w:453,h:21},
{t:"down at his feet and said, ‘Lord, if you had been here, my brother would ",p:92,x:90,y:714,w:453,h:21},
{t:"not have died’” (John 11:32 nlt). It is after the words of Mary that Jesus ",p:92,x:90,y:740,w:453,h:21},
{t:"acts and raises Lazarus from the dead. In the middle of all the despair ",p:92,x:90,y:767,w:453,h:21},
{t:"and pain, Mary worships.",p:92,x:90,y:794,w:160,h:21},
{t:"God loves our attention and delights when we want to give Him our ",p:92,x:105,y:820,w:439,h:21},
{t:"worship. Whenever the people of God give, then He turns up, especially ",p:92,x:90,y:847,w:454,h:21},
{t:"when we offer heartfelt praise and worship—even more so when we do ",p:92,x:90,y:874,w:453,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   85",p:92,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:44 AM",p:92,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"86",p:93,x:90,y:944,w:17,h:21},
{t:"it sacrifcially, when we count the cost, when it’s hard to worship, but ",p:93,x:120,y:100,w:454,h:21},
{t:"we do so anyway. The Bible talks about the shekinah glory of God—the ",p:93,x:120,y:127,w:453,h:22},
{t:"immediate, intense, holy presence of God. That’s when our spirits get ",p:93,x:120,y:154,w:454,h:21},
{t:"ignited by God’s holy fre, and then anything could happen!",p:93,x:120,y:180,w:377,h:21},
{t:"On the fall leg of the Wherever You Are tour, I shared these two verses ",p:93,x:135,y:207,w:438,h:22},
{t:"from Revelation with the band: ",p:93,x:120,y:234,w:201,h:21},
{t:"I, John, your brother and companion in the suffering and king-",p:93,x:157,y:290,w:397,h:21},
{t:"dom and patient endurance that are ours in Jesus, was on the ",p:93,x:157,y:317,w:400,h:21},
{t:"island of Patmos because of the word of God and the testimony ",p:93,x:157,y:344,w:408,h:21},
{t:"of Jesus. On the Lord’s Day I was in the Spirit, and I heard be-",p:93,x:157,y:370,w:393,h:21},
{t:"hind me a loud voice like a trumpet.”—Revelation 1:9–10 niv",p:93,x:157,y:397,w:391,h:21},
{t:"We studied the key phrase “I was in the Spirit,” which in the New ",p:93,x:135,y:454,w:440,h:21},
{t:"Living Translation reads, “I was worshiping in the Spirit.” John was in ",p:93,x:120,y:480,w:454,h:22},
{t:"exile on the island of Patmos, which was essentially a Roman penal ",p:93,x:120,y:507,w:455,h:21},
{t:"colony. His circumstances were not good, and all around him he would ",p:93,x:120,y:534,w:454,h:21},
{t:"have seen reminders that he was in captivity.",p:93,x:120,y:560,w:290,h:21},
{t:"Yet he was able to go beyond his situation and his circumstances ",p:93,x:135,y:587,w:440,h:21},
{t:"and could worship in the Spirit. The lesson we learned from this was ",p:93,x:120,y:614,w:455,h:21},
{t:"that if John could be “in the Spirit,” then by defnition he could also ",p:93,x:120,y:640,w:455,h:21},
{t:"be “out of the Spirit” or “not in the Spirit.” We made an honest ap-",p:93,x:120,y:667,w:449,h:21},
{t:"praisal of ourselves and recognized there are times when we aren’t in ",p:93,x:120,y:694,w:454,h:21},
{t:"the Spirit, even acknowledging that it’s possible (but not desirable) to ",p:93,x:120,y:720,w:454,h:21},
{t:"pray, preach, minister, and even worship and sing from the fesh rather ",p:93,x:120,y:747,w:453,h:21},
{t:"than from the Spirit. ",p:93,x:120,y:774,w:134,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   86",p:93,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:45 AM",p:93,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"87",p:94,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Sing a Song",p:94,x:494,y:41,w:76,h:21},
{t:"In our prayer time directly after this study, you would have ",p:94,x:120,y:101,w:454,h:21},
{t:"found us pleading with God for us to be in the Spirit and to be ",p:94,x:90,y:127,w:485,h:21},
{t:"led by Him rather than by human instinct or direction. During ",p:94,x:90,y:154,w:485,h:21},
{t:"the concert that evening, Mac saw a group of women together ",p:94,x:90,y:181,w:485,h:21},
{t:"in the audience and sensed that they had story to tell. He called ",p:94,x:90,y:207,w:484,h:21},
{t:"one of them up to the stage and gave her the microphone—a ",p:94,x:90,y:234,w:485,h:23},
{t:"very risky and unusual strategy. The woman explained that ",p:94,x:90,y:261,w:488,h:21},
{t:"she had been praying for an opportunity to say something. ",p:94,x:90,y:288,w:488,h:21},
{t:"She went on to describe how her husband and child had been ",p:94,x:90,y:314,w:485,h:21},
{t:"tragically killed in a house explosion a year or so before but ",p:94,x:90,y:341,w:486,h:21},
{t:"that she and one other child had been rescued. For the past ",p:94,x:90,y:368,w:487,h:21},
{t:"several months the Wherever You Are album had been a real ",p:94,x:90,y:394,w:486,h:21},
{t:"comfort to her. She was at the concert with a group of friends ",p:94,x:90,y:421,w:485,h:21},
{t:"who had been a great support for her. As she was sharing this ",p:94,x:90,y:448,w:485,h:21},
{t:"poignant story, the crowd fell silent, and most of us, band in-",p:94,x:90,y:474,w:480,h:21},
{t:"cluded, had tears in our eyes. Afterward we recognized that the ",p:94,x:90,y:501,w:484,h:21},
{t:"whole episode was an “in the Spirit” moment, and we thanked ",p:94,x:90,y:528,w:485,h:21},
{t:"God for it.",p:94,x:90,y:554,w:79,h:21},
{t:"As well as the very powerful spiritual element of Third Day ",p:94,x:120,y:581,w:454,h:21},
{t:"concerts, the band has been a powerful influence in other ar-",p:94,x:90,y:608,w:480,h:21},
{t:"eas. The guys have constantly looked for new and innovative ",p:94,x:90,y:634,w:486,h:21},
{t:"ways of touring and have headed in directions both geographi-",p:94,x:90,y:661,w:480,h:21},
{t:"cally and commercially that others haven’t walked. Third Day’s ",p:94,x:90,y:688,w:484,h:21},
{t:"concert tours have often been industry leaders, not least in ",p:94,x:90,y:714,w:488,h:21},
{t:"the area of sponsorship. When the band first partnered with a ",p:94,x:90,y:741,w:485,h:21},
{t:"commercial company, the news attracted coverage in national ",p:94,x:90,y:768,w:485,h:21},
{t:"newspapers and on TV chat shows. The move wasn’t without ",p:94,x:90,y:794,w:486,h:21},
{t:"criticism from within the Christian community. Mac explains:",p:94,x:90,y:821,w:475,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   87",p:94,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:46 AM",p:94,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"88",p:95,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:95,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"Our sponsorship with Chevrolet was pioneering, but it wasn’t ",p:95,x:131,y:100,w:412,h:22},
{t:"always well received or spoken about positively. We believed ",p:95,x:153,y:127,w:417,h:22},
{t:"it helped to add legitimacy to our ministry in the wider world ",p:95,x:158,y:153,w:413,h:22},
{t:"outside the Christian community. As believers we always want ",p:95,x:158,y:180,w:413,h:22},
{t:"to do things for the glory of God, but we also want to reach ",p:95,x:155,y:207,w:403,h:22},
{t:"people outside the church.",p:95,x:136,y:234,w:181,h:22},
{t:"Te Chevy sponsorship allows us to have a beter show and a cheaper ",p:95,x:90,y:260,w:477,h:22},
{t:"ticket price so that fans get a beter concert all round! Chevrolet, for its ",p:95,x:90,y:287,w:476,h:22},
{t:"part, has been able to showcase its product to our fans and has done ",p:95,x:90,y:314,w:467,h:22},
{t:"so discreetly. Tey have never told us what we can and cannot say; they ",p:95,x:90,y:340,w:481,h:22},
{t:"have allowed us to be who we are and do what we do. I’m all for the ",p:95,x:90,y:367,w:465,h:22},
{t:"relationship with Chevy!",p:95,x:90,y:394,w:160,h:22},
{t:"Mac Powell, November 2006",p:95,x:366,y:427,w:203,h:23},
{t:"One of my all-time-favorite movies is Groundhog Day with ",p:95,x:120,y:471,w:454,h:21},
{t:"Bill Murray, where he relives the same day over and over again. ",p:95,x:90,y:497,w:484,h:21},
{t:"Life on the road can sometimes feel like that unless you make ",p:95,x:90,y:524,w:485,h:21},
{t:"some effort.",p:95,x:90,y:551,w:91,h:21},
{t:"You find yourself with a great deal of time to fill, and it’s ",p:95,x:120,y:577,w:456,h:21},
{t:"no wonder that one-time keyboard player Geof Barkley and I ",p:95,x:90,y:604,w:486,h:21},
{t:"managed to watch a whole season of 24 on DVD over a pe-",p:95,x:90,y:631,w:479,h:21},
{t:"riod of just four days. If you asked me in which cities we did ",p:95,x:90,y:658,w:486,h:21},
{t:"that, and on which one of the tours, my memory banks don’t ",p:95,x:90,y:684,w:486,h:21},
{t:"hold that information any longer. Venues, cities, concerts, even ",p:95,x:90,y:711,w:484,h:21},
{t:"whole tours, sometimes blend into each other after a while. It’s ",p:95,x:90,y:738,w:484,h:21},
{t:"not surprising that toward the end of a tour, the final question ",p:95,x:90,y:764,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Mac will ask before he strides onto the stage is, “What city are ",p:95,x:90,y:791,w:485,h:21},
{t:"we in tonight?”",p:95,x:90,y:818,w:119,h:21},
{t:"I’ve described a typical day in the life of a touring band ",p:95,x:120,y:844,w:457,h:21},
{t:"in a previous chapter, but here’s David’s view of a day on the ",p:95,x:90,y:871,w:486,h:21},
{t:"road: ",p:95,x:90,y:898,w:45,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   88",p:95,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:46 AM",p:95,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"89",p:96,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Sing a Song",p:96,x:494,y:41,w:76,h:21},
{t:"Te interesting thing about being on the road for a group ",p:96,x:90,y:100,w:390,h:22},
{t:"like Tird Day is that every day is almost completely diferent ",p:96,x:90,y:127,w:406,h:22},
{t:"from the one before. Te characters remain the same; but ",p:96,x:90,y:153,w:388,h:22},
{t:"the scenery, the food, the Internet connection, and the water ",p:96,x:90,y:180,w:409,h:22},
{t:"pressure in the shower change (if there is a shower). Don’t feel ",p:96,x:90,y:207,w:416,h:22},
{t:"bad for us though; there is still the tour bus, the satellite television, and ",p:96,x:90,y:234,w:470,h:22},
{t:"Fruit Loops to make us feel at home, wherever we are. ",p:96,x:90,y:260,w:364,h:22},
{t:"Today, we are in Ames, Iowa. We don ’t ofen make it to Iowa, and ",p:96,x:90,y:287,w:452,h:22},
{t:"what a shame that is, because every time we do come this way, we’re ",p:96,x:90,y:314,w:473,h:22},
{t:"greeted with good old midwestern hospitality and warmth that we’re ",p:96,x:90,y:340,w:475,h:22},
{t:"used to in the Deep South. I believe the building that we’re in today, ",p:96,x:90,y:367,w:473,h:22},
{t:"the Stephens Auditorium at Iowa State University, is one of the only ",p:96,x:90,y:394,w:464,h:22},
{t:"places we’ve ever played in Iowa. So while I haven’t got much to go ",p:96,x:90,y:420,w:467,h:22},
{t:"on as far as a real impression of Iowa goes, I still nonetheless have ",p:96,x:90,y:447,w:447,h:22},
{t:"fond memories of play ing here. Not sure what else the day w ill bring: ",p:96,x:90,y:474,w:476,h:22},
{t:"a movie, the mall, an electronics store, or a bookstore? Or maybe ",p:96,x:90,y:500,w:451,h:22},
{t:"we’ll just chill a litle and enjoy each other",p:96,x:90,y:527,w:282,h:22},
{t:"’",p:96,x:373,y:527,w:2,h:22},
{t:"s company. We are now ",p:96,x:374,y:527,w:168,h:22},
{t:"seven shows into the tour, tonight being number eight. Time really ",p:96,x:90,y:554,w:457,h:22},
{t:"fies when you are going from place to place and having a blast play-",p:96,x:90,y:580,w:470,h:22},
{t:"ing rock shows to enthusiastic fans. I’m just amazed and humbled that ",p:96,x:90,y:607,w:471,h:22},
{t:"afer all these years we still have fans who are into what we do. It ’s the ",p:96,x:90,y:634,w:477,h:22},
{t:"biggest compliment in the world! Tough some of the venues we’ve ",p:96,x:90,y:660,w:471,h:22},
{t:"been playing are a bit diferent from what we’re used to, we still go ",p:96,x:90,y:687,w:462,h:22},
{t:"out and make the best of it since the fans don ’t really care too much ",p:96,x:90,y:714,w:467,h:22},
{t:"about how cool the room is or how many people are there. We know ",p:96,x:90,y:740,w:484,h:22},
{t:"that you paid for your ticket just like everybody else and that you ",p:96,x:90,y:767,w:451,h:22},
{t:"deserve the same show we give to an audience of seven thousand in ",p:96,x:90,y:794,w:477,h:22},
{t:"an ultraplush arena. Spiritually speaking, we are in a really cool place ",p:96,x:90,y:820,w:467,h:22},
{t:"these days. I feel like God is stirring our hearts a litle more these days, ",p:96,x:90,y:847,w:480,h:22},
{t:"and the message of “Cry Out to Jesus” is becoming more real to us ",p:96,x:90,y:874,w:457,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   89",p:96,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:46 AM",p:96,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"90",p:97,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:97,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"individually. Trust us, even with sold-out shows, adoring fans, and our ",p:97,x:90,y:100,w:473,h:22},
{t:"great jobs in general, we still have a lot to “cry out ” for.",p:97,x:90,y:127,w:368,h:22},
{t:"David Carr, Wherever We Are tour, February 26, 2006",p:97,x:195,y:160,w:374,h:23},
{t:"On Third Day’s weblog, Mark Lee will most times post the ",p:97,x:120,y:204,w:455,h:21},
{t:"set list after a concert, and these days rarely are two concert ",p:97,x:90,y:231,w:486,h:21},
{t:"set lists exactly the same. I’ve taken the liberty here of head-",p:97,x:90,y:257,w:480,h:21},
{t:"ing off into fantasy land and choosing my own Third Day set ",p:97,x:90,y:284,w:485,h:21},
{t:"list. To my knowledge they have never played this set list, nor ",p:97,x:90,y:311,w:485,h:21},
{t:"are they likely to, but it gives you an idea of my favorite Third ",p:97,x:90,y:337,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Day songs. ",p:97,x:90,y:364,w:89,h:21},
{t:"A rock block to start:",p:97,x:120,y:406,w:163,h:21},
{t:"“I Got a Feeling”",p:97,x:150,y:447,w:128,h:21},
{t:"“’Til the Day I Die”",p:97,x:150,y:474,w:145,h:21},
{t:"“Did You Mean It?”",p:97,x:150,y:501,w:149,h:21},
{t:"“Get On”",p:97,x:150,y:527,w:68,h:21},
{t:"“Took My Place”",p:97,x:150,y:554,w:128,h:21},
{t:"“Sweet Home Alabama”",p:97,x:150,y:581,w:183,h:21},
{t:"Then some acoustic stuff:",p:97,x:120,y:622,w:196,h:21},
{t:"“Sing a Song”",p:97,x:150,y:664,w:108,h:21},
{t:"“Still Listening”",p:97,x:150,y:691,w:121,h:21},
{t:"“These Thousand Hills”",p:97,x:150,y:717,w:177,h:21},
{t:"“You Are Mine”",p:97,x:150,y:744,w:121,h:21},
{t:"Into a rock worship section:",p:97,x:120,y:786,w:215,h:21},
{t:"“My Hope Is You”",p:97,x:150,y:827,w:137,h:21},
{t:"“Carry My Cross”",p:97,x:150,y:854,w:133,h:21},
{t:"“Consuming Fire”",p:97,x:150,y:881,w:136,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   90",p:97,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:46 AM",p:97,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"91",p:98,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Sing a Song",p:98,x:494,y:41,w:76,h:21},
{t:"Back into some more rock ’n’ roll to finish the set:",p:98,x:120,y:101,w:387,h:21},
{t:"“I Can Feel It”",p:98,x:150,y:127,w:108,h:21},
{t:"“What Good”",p:98,x:150,y:154,w:102,h:21},
{t:"“Come Together”",p:98,x:150,y:181,w:129,h:21},
{t:"The encore:",p:98,x:120,y:222,w:89,h:21},
{t:"“Creed”",p:98,x:150,y:264,w:57,h:21},
{t:"“Cry Out to Jesus”",p:98,x:150,y:291,w:140,h:21},
{t:"“God of Wonders”",p:98,x:150,y:318,w:139,h:21},
{t:"Now that’s what I call a concert! Of course, by the time you ",p:98,x:120,y:359,w:454,h:21},
{t:"read this, I might have some new favorites, and my set list will ",p:98,x:90,y:386,w:485,h:21},
{t:"have changed!",p:98,x:90,y:413,w:111,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   91",p:98,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:46 AM",p:98,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"6",p:99,x:350,y:-45,w:222,h:600},
{t:"There Is ",p:99,x:66,y:455,w:192,h:43},
{t:"Hope for the Helpless",p:99,x:66,y:498,w:500,h:43},
{t:"-CrY out to Jesus-",p:99,x:185,y:585,w:299,h:55},
{t:"there is hope for the helpless",p:99,x:155,y:659,w:364,h:40},
{t:"rest for the weary",p:99,x:220,y:693,w:237,h:40},
{t:"Love for the broken heart",p:99,x:179,y:731,w:322,h:40},
{t:"there is grace and forgiveness",p:99,x:151,y:769,w:379,h:40},
{t:"mercy and healing",p:99,x:219,y:803,w:247,h:40},
{t:"He’ll meet you wherever you are",p:99,x:145,y:842,w:397,h:40},
{t:"Cry out to Jesus",p:99,x:253,y:875,w:185,h:40},
{t:"Cry out to Jesus",p:99,x:254,y:912,w:185,h:40},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   93",p:99,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:47 AM",p:99,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"94",p:100,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:100,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"Everyone gets a tiny taste of love sometime in his or her life ",p:100,x:151,y:100,w:399,h:22},
{t:"that serves as a picture of what it could be: energizing, purify-",p:100,x:160,y:127,w:408,h:22},
{t:"ing, and freeing. Suddenly, in one fatal moment, life happens, ",p:100,x:160,y:153,w:406,h:22},
{t:"and fragments of hope and love scater. Scrambling to pro-",p:100,x:158,y:180,w:393,h:22},
{t:"tect ourselves, we construct fortresses to shelter our batered ",p:100,x:143,y:207,w:410,h:22},
{t:"hearts. What was built to keep us safe eventually becomes our prison. ",p:100,x:90,y:234,w:468,h:22},
{t:"When we realize our need to escape, we fnd ourselves institutional-",p:100,x:90,y:260,w:457,h:22},
{t:"ized and unable to engage. Tat ’s when love busts through the walls ",p:100,x:90,y:287,w:457,h:22},
{t:"and sets us free.",p:100,x:90,y:314,w:106,h:22},
{t:"Brad Avery on the song “Love Heals Your Heart”",p:100,x:240,y:355,w:330,h:23},
{t:"-Love HeaLs Your Heart-",p:100,x:124,y:487,w:402,h:57},
{t:"when you think your life is shattered",p:100,x:96,y:566,w:461,h:40},
{t:"and there’s no way to be fixed again",p:100,x:100,y:606,w:456,h:40},
{t:"Love heals your heart",p:100,x:201,y:642,w:257,h:40},
{t:"at a time you least expected",p:100,x:153,y:684,w:355,h:40},
{t:"You’re alive like you have never been",p:100,x:111,y:725,w:443,h:40},
{t:"Love heals your heart",p:100,x:205,y:762,w:257,h:40},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   94",p:100,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:48 AM",p:100,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"95",p:101,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Tere Is Hope for the Helpless",p:101,x:368,y:41,w:202,h:21},
{t:"I’ve been to so many Third Day concerts over the years, in so ",p:101,x:90,y:91,w:485,h:69},
{t:"many different towns and cities, that sometimes it’s difficult ",p:101,x:107,y:127,w:467,h:21},
{t:"to remember exactly what happened when; and days, concerts, ",p:101,x:90,y:154,w:484,h:21},
{t:"even whole tours get blurred and confused. Every so often ",p:101,x:90,y:181,w:488,h:21},
{t:"though, something so significant happens that helps to imprint ",p:101,x:90,y:207,w:484,h:21},
{t:"a particular day or venue on my memory banks forever.",p:101,x:90,y:234,w:431,h:21},
{t:"That is the case when I look back to a concert at Willow ",p:101,x:120,y:261,w:456,h:21},
{t:"Creek Community Church, just outside Chicago, on the spring ",p:101,x:90,y:288,w:485,h:21},
{t:"leg of the Wherever You Are tour in 2006. The occasion was ",p:101,x:90,y:314,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Willow Creeks’ youth leader’s conference, and Third Day’s con-",p:101,x:90,y:341,w:480,h:21},
{t:"cert was going to close the event. ",p:101,x:90,y:368,w:263,h:21},
{t:"The previous couple of months had been difficult ones for ",p:101,x:120,y:394,w:455,h:21},
{t:"me. At Christmas time my wife had become very ill and was ",p:101,x:90,y:421,w:486,h:21},
{t:"not able to work until Easter time. To make things more com-",p:101,x:90,y:448,w:480,h:21},
{t:"plicated, at Christmas we had paid a sum of money as deposit ",p:101,x:90,y:474,w:485,h:21},
{t:"on three acres of land in southern India where we were going ",p:101,x:90,y:501,w:485,h:21},
{t:"to build a school. My wife, Gill, is a teacher and was excited ",p:101,x:90,y:528,w:486,h:21},
{t:"about a vision that our Indian pastor friend had. His name was ",p:101,x:90,y:554,w:484,h:21},
{t:"Prasad, and his vision was to open up a school in one of the ",p:101,x:90,y:581,w:486,h:21},
{t:"villages he ministered in. I had visited with Prasad the previ-",p:101,x:90,y:608,w:480,h:21},
{t:"ous year and had identified the land to be bought. Gill agreed ",p:101,x:90,y:634,w:485,h:21},
{t:"to head up the fundraising project for the school, and we used ",p:101,x:90,y:661,w:485,h:21},
{t:"some of our savings for the deposit. The agreement with the ",p:101,x:90,y:688,w:487,h:21},
{t:"landowner was that we would pay the remainder of the cost by ",p:101,x:90,y:714,w:484,h:21},
{t:"Easter time. That was my dilemma. I’d agreed to travel with the ",p:101,x:90,y:741,w:484,h:21},
{t:"band for ten days or so in February and another three weeks ",p:101,x:90,y:768,w:486,h:21},
{t:"in March, but could I leave my wife alone? And who was go-",p:101,x:90,y:794,w:480,h:21},
{t:"ing to spearhead the fundraising for the land while she was ill? ",p:101,x:90,y:821,w:484,h:21},
{t:"Would we lose our deposit and the land? Could I let the band ",p:101,x:90,y:848,w:486,h:21},
{t:"down and not tour? In the end our eldest daughter, Rachel, ",p:101,x:90,y:874,w:487,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   95",p:101,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:49 AM",p:101,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"96",p:102,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:102,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"agreed to move back home for a week to give Gill some com-",p:102,x:90,y:101,w:479,h:21},
{t:"pany, and our youngest daughter, Bethan, came with me to the ",p:102,x:90,y:127,w:484,h:21},
{t:"USA.  She stayed with friends in Fort Wayne and managed to ",p:102,x:90,y:154,w:485,h:21},
{t:"see Third Day once in Indiana at the start of her trip and again ",p:102,x:90,y:181,w:485,h:21},
{t:"at Willow Creek before we flew home the next day.",p:102,x:90,y:207,w:394,h:21},
{t:"Third Day has a practice of giving a percentage of ticket ",p:102,x:120,y:234,w:457,h:21},
{t:"sales at each concert to good causes. We were early enough in ",p:102,x:90,y:261,w:485,h:21},
{t:"the tour that these good causes hadn’t been identified for ev-",p:102,x:90,y:288,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ery concert on the tour. We were sitting outside Willow Creek ",p:102,x:90,y:314,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Church on the tour bus, and the conversation got around to the ",p:102,x:90,y:341,w:484,h:21},
{t:"projects that could be supported. Now the pressure of the fund-",p:102,x:90,y:368,w:480,h:21},
{t:"raising, or non-fundraising as it was, for the Indian school was ",p:102,x:90,y:394,w:484,h:21},
{t:"really getting to me, and I’d been praying about it constantly. ",p:102,x:90,y:421,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Have you heard the saying, “If you know how to worry, then ",p:102,x:90,y:448,w:486,h:21},
{t:"you know how to meditate”? Well, I’m not too sure which one ",p:102,x:90,y:474,w:485,h:21},
{t:"I was doing, but I was concerned. I wanted to ask the guys if ",p:102,x:90,y:501,w:486,h:21},
{t:"they’d get involved with the Indian school project, but before I ",p:102,x:90,y:528,w:485,h:21},
{t:"could do that, one of them said, “Hey, Nige, we should help you ",p:102,x:90,y:554,w:484,h:21},
{t:"out with whatever you’re doing in India!” Everyone quickly ",p:102,x:90,y:581,w:487,h:21},
{t:"agreed, and before too long we had identified five concerts on ",p:102,x:90,y:608,w:485,h:21},
{t:"the tour where a small percentage of ticket sales would go to ",p:102,x:90,y:634,w:486,h:21},
{t:"help buy three acres of land in a small Indian village. I was ",p:102,x:90,y:661,w:487,h:21},
{t:"thrilled, shed a tear, and cried out my thanks to God.",p:102,x:90,y:688,w:407,h:21},
{t:"Gill was equally pleased when I got home and explained ",p:102,x:120,y:714,w:457,h:21},
{t:"the situation to her. Over the next few weeks, the money raised ",p:102,x:90,y:741,w:484,h:21},
{t:"by the Third Day concerts came in, and we transferred it over ",p:102,x:90,y:768,w:485,h:21},
{t:"to the school account in India. It covered the balance of money ",p:102,x:90,y:794,w:484,h:21},
{t:"needed to buy the land almost to the exact penny!",p:102,x:90,y:821,w:388,h:21},
{t:"The following September I headed out to India again with a ",p:102,x:120,y:848,w:454,h:21},
{t:"team of people. We were part of the official opening ceremony ",p:102,x:90,y:874,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   96",p:102,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:49 AM",p:102,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"97",p:103,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Tere Is Hope for the Helpless",p:103,x:368,y:41,w:202,h:21},
{t:"and foundation-stone laying in the village of Undeswaparum ",p:103,x:90,y:101,w:486,h:21},
{t:"in the state of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. To honor ",p:103,x:90,y:127,w:488,h:21},
{t:"Third Day, we had called the land the Come Together Com-",p:103,x:90,y:154,w:480,h:21},
{t:"pound, and the vision now stretches past a school to an or-",p:103,x:90,y:181,w:479,h:21},
{t:"phanage as well. I’ve shown plenty of photos and films of the ",p:103,x:90,y:207,w:485,h:21},
{t:"project to the band, but my hope is that some day members of ",p:103,x:90,y:234,w:485,h:21},
{t:"the band will visit Undeswaparum and see the Come Together ",p:103,x:90,y:261,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Compound in real life. ",p:103,x:90,y:288,w:177,h:21},
{t:"Each guy in Third Day has overseas-mission experience for ",p:103,x:120,y:314,w:454,h:21},
{t:"himself and can articulate what it means to offer spiritual and ",p:103,x:90,y:341,w:485,h:21},
{t:"practical hope to people. Here are David’s thoughts: ",p:103,x:90,y:368,w:403,h:21},
{t:"When I went to Guatemala in 1995, we’d been a band for two ",p:103,x:90,y:423,w:423,h:22},
{t:"years or so. Tree weeks in Guatemala and Honduras opened ",p:103,x:90,y:450,w:418,h:22},
{t:"my eyes to a diferent situation and made me realize that we ",p:103,x:90,y:476,w:405,h:22},
{t:"can be very insular in the USA. Tere are so many reasons ",p:103,x:90,y:503,w:389,h:22},
{t:"not to leave America because we have it all, but that trip ",p:103,x:90,y:530,w:379,h:22},
{t:"opened up my soul to the fact that there are other cultures in ",p:103,x:90,y:556,w:413,h:22},
{t:"this world and that many of them are hurting and experiencing poverty ",p:103,x:90,y:583,w:478,h:22},
{t:"and hardships. I tried to bring back more of a global perspective to the ",p:103,x:90,y:610,w:478,h:22},
{t:"band. Everyone was appreciative, but it ’s difcult to understand that ",p:103,x:90,y:636,w:454,h:22},
{t:"stuf unless you ’ve really experienced it. Tat short mission trip gave me ",p:103,x:90,y:663,w:476,h:22},
{t:"more of a mission mindedness about Tird Day. Now everyone in the ",p:103,x:90,y:690,w:468,h:22},
{t:"band has experienced overseas mission in some shape or form. ",p:103,x:90,y:716,w:425,h:22},
{t:"To be honest, my mission perspective has faded in and out over the ",p:103,x:90,y:743,w:459,h:22},
{t:"years; and while I’m excited to see T ai so passionate about Africa, for ex-",p:103,x:90,y:770,w:479,h:22},
{t:"ample, I need to go on a mission trip again myself to rekindle that per-",p:103,x:90,y:796,w:466,h:22},
{t:"spective in my own life. I’ve seen all the flms and heard all the statistics, ",p:103,x:90,y:823,w:472,h:22},
{t:"but when you go and experience a situation for yourself, it connects ",p:103,x:90,y:850,w:457,h:22},
{t:"with your heart. Having said that, we can use our profle as a band and ",p:103,x:90,y:876,w:473,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   97",p:103,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:49 AM",p:103,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"98",p:104,x:90,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:104,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"our concert platorm to raise awareness of countries and peoples in real ",p:104,x:90,y:100,w:482,h:22},
{t:"need and encourage our fans to help. If we think Tird Day can solve all ",p:104,x:90,y:126,w:481,h:23},
{t:"the world’s problems, then we’ve already lost; but we can bring practi-",p:104,x:90,y:153,w:467,h:22},
{t:"cal, fnancial, and spiritual help into the places we believe that God has ",p:104,x:90,y:180,w:473,h:22},
{t:"placed on our hearts. ",p:104,x:90,y:207,w:147,h:22},
{t:"I’ve also begun to realize true poverty is something that reaches into the ",p:104,x:90,y:233,w:483,h:22},
{t:"innermost part of the human experience. It is not solely a lack of stuf, ",p:104,x:90,y:260,w:460,h:22},
{t:"necessities, or luxuries, but something far more intense. Tere are many ",p:104,x:90,y:287,w:472,h:22},
{t:"people who have nothing yet seem to have a relationship with the ",p:104,x:90,y:314,w:447,h:22},
{t:"Father that I can only dream of, while many of us in western society have ",p:104,x:90,y:340,w:482,h:22},
{t:"so much yet are so impoverished in our souls. Tat is a debatable and ",p:104,x:90,y:367,w:469,h:22},
{t:"lengthy discussion we can have together, but for now we in Tird Day ",p:104,x:90,y:394,w:467,h:22},
{t:"want to reach out to our audiences and ofer a glimmer of hope wher-",p:104,x:90,y:420,w:470,h:22},
{t:"ever they are. Many times I feel like saying I have everything I could ",p:104,x:90,y:447,w:451,h:22},
{t:"ever want—health, wealth, family, friends, you name it—yet I still feel ",p:104,x:90,y:474,w:453,h:22},
{t:"empty and lonely inside. I sometimes feel guilty for feeling this way, but ",p:104,x:90,y:500,w:474,h:22},
{t:"I recognize that apart from Christ, nothing else can fll me and give me ",p:104,x:90,y:527,w:468,h:22},
{t:"true identity and purpose, so I’m prompted to cry out to Jesus. I hope ",p:104,x:90,y:554,w:469,h:22},
{t:"that you will recognize the truth that Jesus is the one who gives you ",p:104,x:90,y:580,w:448,h:22},
{t:"your name, your purpose, and your sense of self-worth—three things ",p:104,x:90,y:607,w:465,h:22},
{t:"that are essential to the life of a believer. Going through the religious ",p:104,x:90,y:634,w:458,h:22},
{t:"motions won’t get you anywhere if you don’t start with brokenness and ",p:104,x:90,y:660,w:476,h:22},
{t:"willingness to cry out.",p:104,x:90,y:687,w:141,h:22},
{t:"David Carr, November 2006",p:104,x:370,y:713,w:200,h:23},
{t:"David is so right when he articulates the same thing that ",p:104,x:120,y:772,w:456,h:21},
{t:"Jesus talked about: the poor in spirit are not just those who ",p:104,x:90,y:798,w:487,h:21},
{t:"are materially impoverished. Having traveled to many places ",p:104,x:90,y:825,w:487,h:21},
{t:"of material poverty, I can honestly say it is in the western cul-",p:104,x:90,y:852,w:480,h:21},
{t:"tures such as the US and the UK where I see people who are ",p:104,x:90,y:878,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   98",p:104,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:49 AM",p:104,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"99",p:105,x:552,y:943,w:17,h:21},
{t:"Tere Is Hope for the Helpless",p:105,x:368,y:41,w:202,h:21},
{t:"most spiritually poor. Conversely, I can remember standing in ",p:105,x:90,y:101,w:486,h:21},
{t:"a remote Indian village, about to speak in a small church in ",p:105,x:90,y:127,w:487,h:21},
{t:"a leprosy colony. The whole congregation was made up of se-",p:105,x:90,y:154,w:480,h:21},
{t:"vere leprosy sufferers; their bodies were disfigured, they were ",p:105,x:90,y:181,w:486,h:21},
{t:"experiencing physical pain, and they lived in the poorest of ",p:105,x:90,y:207,w:487,h:21},
{t:"circumstances. I swallowed hard and wondered deep down if ",p:105,x:90,y:234,w:486,h:21},
{t:"my preaching would make any difference to these unfortunate ",p:105,x:90,y:261,w:485,h:21},
{t:"folk. My friend Pastor Prasad encouraged me to share that as ",p:105,x:90,y:288,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Christians our bodies aren’t a permanent residence and that ",p:105,x:90,y:314,w:488,h:21},
{t:"our spirits will be with God for eternity. I spoke a few words,  ",p:105,x:90,y:341,w:486,h:21},
{t:"then we worshiped together. I have never experienced such an ",p:105,x:90,y:368,w:485,h:21},
{t:"intense time of worship with people whose circumstances could ",p:105,x:90,y:394,w:484,h:21},
{t:"have made them very angry with God. Instead, they raised ",p:105,x:90,y:421,w:488,h:21},
{t:"their deformed arms, lifted their broken faces heavenward, and ",p:105,x:90,y:448,w:484,h:21},
{t:"celebrated God’s love for them. Very few people in the western ",p:105,x:90,y:474,w:485,h:21},
{t:"world would want to experience the life of those lepers, but ",p:105,x:90,y:501,w:487,h:21},
{t:"they would yearn for the spiritual peace and contentment those ",p:105,x:90,y:528,w:484,h:21},
{t:"lepers enjoy.",p:105,x:90,y:554,w:95,h:21},
{t:"So how do the guys in Third Day aim to make a differ-",p:105,x:120,y:581,w:449,h:21},
{t:"ence?",p:105,x:90,y:608,w:43,h:21},
{t:"Let me take you back a few years. It’s a hot Saturday on ",p:105,x:120,y:634,w:456,h:21},
{t:"the spring leg of the Come Together tour. The concert will not ",p:105,x:90,y:661,w:485,h:21},
{t:"start until eight o’clock in the evening, and we have the whole ",p:105,x:90,y:688,w:485,h:21},
{t:"day to do what we want. We’re all jammed into the back of a ",p:105,x:90,y:714,w:485,h:21},
{t:"minivan—our destination isn’t a ball game, a shopping mall, or ",p:105,x:90,y:741,w:484,h:23},
{t:"a movie theater, or even a bookstore signing session. Instead, ",p:105,x:90,y:768,w:486,h:21},
{t:"we are on the way to a Habitat for Humanity housing project ",p:105,x:90,y:794,w:486,h:21},
{t:"to put in some “sweat equity” and help a family build its new ",p:105,x:90,y:821,w:485,h:21},
{t:"home. A short while later I find myself hammering nails into ",p:105,x:90,y:848,w:486,h:21},
{t:"a piece of wood and then cutting and fitting the wood on the ",p:105,x:90,y:874,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   99",p:105,x:16,y:1055,w:186,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:49 AM",p:105,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"100",p:106,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:106,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"roof of a nearly completed house. We are helping a single-",p:106,x:90,y:101,w:479,h:21},
{t:"parent mom put the finishing touches on her first-ever home. ",p:106,x:90,y:127,w:486,h:21},
{t:"She’d been working on it herself in her spare time for weeks. ",p:106,x:90,y:154,w:486,h:21},
{t:"David Carr is very good at DIY (Do It Yourself), so he knew ",p:106,x:90,y:181,w:487,h:21},
{t:"exactly how to get started. Most of the others guys were enthu-",p:106,x:90,y:207,w:479,h:21},
{t:"siastic helpers, and Tai roamed around in an advisory capacity, ",p:106,x:90,y:234,w:484,h:21},
{t:"taking lots of pictures.",p:106,x:90,y:261,w:172,h:21},
{t:"Later that day when I called home, my wife was amazed ",p:106,x:120,y:288,w:457,h:21},
{t:"that I’d actually done something as practical as helping build ",p:106,x:90,y:314,w:486,h:21},
{t:"a house, because my lack of skill with a hammer, screwdriver, ",p:106,x:90,y:341,w:485,h:21},
{t:"and paintbrush is legendary in our family.",p:106,x:90,y:368,w:324,h:21},
{t:"The scene at the Habitat for Humanity house was to be ",p:106,x:120,y:394,w:458,h:21},
{t:"regularly repeated at various locations during the Come To-",p:106,x:90,y:421,w:480,h:21},
{t:"gether tour and the Come Together and Worship tour. The band ",p:106,x:90,y:448,w:484,h:21},
{t:"didn’t make a big deal of it. Sometimes the press showed up, ",p:106,x:90,y:474,w:486,h:21},
{t:"and sometimes they didn’t. Habitat for Humanity had a booth ",p:106,x:90,y:501,w:485,h:21},
{t:"at every concert, and often we’d see the family we’d been help-",p:106,x:90,y:528,w:480,h:21},
{t:"ing that day in the audience of the show. I didn’t really need ",p:106,x:90,y:554,w:486,h:21},
{t:"reminding, but the way the guys willingly helped build these ",p:106,x:90,y:581,w:486,h:21},
{t:"houses told me and others that they didn’t just talk a good ",p:106,x:90,y:608,w:488,h:21},
{t:"game about using their privileged position to help others, but ",p:106,x:90,y:634,w:486,h:21},
{t:"they actually got up and did it.",p:106,x:90,y:661,w:239,h:21},
{t:"We have had the honor of being able to partner with World Vision ",p:106,x:90,y:716,w:455,h:22},
{t:"for almost ten years now. Until just a couple of years ago, none ",p:106,x:138,y:743,w:420,h:22},
{t:"of us in the band had been on a trip to see World Vision ",p:106,x:155,y:770,w:385,h:22},
{t:"in action. Recently, T ai, Mark, and I made our way to a very ",p:106,x:158,y:796,w:392,h:22},
{t:"small country in southern Africa called Lesotho. Since I had ",p:106,x:158,y:823,w:393,h:22},
{t:"never been anywhere in Africa, I had no idea what to expect. ",p:106,x:151,y:850,w:412,h:22},
{t:"I had always pictured myself on just such a trip. For some reason ",p:106,x:128,y:876,w:428,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   100",p:106,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:49 AM",p:106,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"101",p:107,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Tere Is Hope for the Helpless",p:107,x:368,y:41,w:202,h:21},
{t:"I imagined that each sponsored child was living in some sort of uto-",p:107,x:90,y:100,w:448,h:22},
{t:"pian environment where all of his or her wants and needs were being ",p:107,x:90,y:127,w:468,h:22},
{t:"met. I also assumed that children who had yet to be sponsored were ",p:107,x:90,y:153,w:462,h:22},
{t:"outsiders looking in, just waiting and hoping for their opportunity. How ",p:107,x:90,y:180,w:477,h:22},
{t:"tremendously life altering to be the child living in that rescued oasis. ",p:107,x:90,y:207,w:453,h:22},
{t:"Conversely, how dreadful to be outside the gates with only a hope that ",p:107,x:90,y:234,w:480,h:22},
{t:"someday it could all change. Obviously, my assumptions were wrong. I ",p:107,x:90,y:260,w:470,h:22},
{t:"never really understood the process until I saw it frsthand.",p:107,x:90,y:287,w:385,h:22},
{t:"We turned of the highway onto a gravel road that would lead us to a ",p:107,x:90,y:314,w:468,h:22},
{t:"very small village school, visible about a half mile away. Immediately we ",p:107,x:90,y:340,w:473,h:22},
{t:"saw throngs of children pouring out of the school. Tey recognized the ",p:107,x:90,y:367,w:478,h:22},
{t:"white and orange World Vision pickup trucks and SUVs. As we con-",p:107,x:90,y:394,w:452,h:22},
{t:"tinued toward the village, the children were running, dancing, singing, ",p:107,x:90,y:420,w:466,h:22},
{t:"shouting, and waving to us. Te smiles on their faces and the joy in their ",p:107,x:90,y:447,w:478,h:22},
{t:"eyes are images that will never be forgoten. We stuck our arms out ",p:107,x:90,y:474,w:451,h:22},
{t:"the windows, and they grabbed onto us and wouldn’t let go, walking ",p:107,x:90,y:500,w:461,h:22},
{t:"and running beside our vehicles, holding on to our hands and arms ",p:107,x:90,y:527,w:452,h:22},
{t:"and singing joyous welcome songs. I wondered if heaven could have ",p:107,x:90,y:554,w:462,h:22},
{t:"more joy. We spent the next couple of hours with the kids. Te children ",p:107,x:90,y:580,w:480,h:22},
{t:"danced and sang songs as we visited their school and the rest of their ",p:107,x:90,y:607,w:467,h:22},
{t:"surroundings and ate a local traditional meal. I was excited to see what ",p:107,x:90,y:634,w:469,h:22},
{t:"World Vision was doing there and in other local villages. Still, I wasn’t ",p:107,x:90,y:660,w:457,h:22},
{t:"sure how the process worked.",p:107,x:90,y:687,w:200,h:22},
{t:"I started asking questions about benefts of being a sponsored child in ",p:107,x:90,y:714,w:471,h:22},
{t:"comparison to one not yet sponsored. I found out that when World ",p:107,x:90,y:740,w:458,h:22},
{t:"Vision assimilates into a village, the entire community benefts from its ",p:107,x:90,y:767,w:461,h:22},
{t:"eforts. A clean water source is provided for drinking and cooking. Te ",p:107,x:90,y:794,w:473,h:22},
{t:"children get to go to school each day and receive a solid meal. Medical ",p:107,x:90,y:820,w:481,h:22},
{t:"services are available. Town meetings are facilitated to open commu-",p:107,x:90,y:847,w:459,h:22},
{t:"nication and educate adults on farming techniques, social issues, and ",p:107,x:90,y:874,w:455,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   101",p:107,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:50 AM",p:107,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"102",p:108,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:108,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"disease prevention. Ultimately, World Vision acts as the hands and feet ",p:108,x:90,y:100,w:473,h:22},
{t:"of Christ.  Tey meet people and their needs right where they are and ",p:108,x:90,y:127,w:476,h:22},
{t:"exemplify the love of God through service and sacrifce. It is an incred-",p:108,x:90,y:153,w:470,h:22},
{t:"ible work that helps meet incredible needs. Te more children spon-",p:108,x:90,y:180,w:459,h:22},
{t:"sored in a community, the more resources World Vision has to make a ",p:108,x:90,y:207,w:469,h:22},
{t:"tremendous impact there. We count it an honor to be a part of such ",p:108,x:90,y:234,w:460,h:22},
{t:"an important work being done around the globe, and we continue to ",p:108,x:90,y:260,w:470,h:22},
{t:"challenge our audiences to come alongside this efort to impact the ",p:108,x:90,y:287,w:455,h:22},
{t:"world with the love of Jesus Christ.",p:108,x:90,y:314,w:228,h:22},
{t:"Brad Avery, October 2006",p:108,x:381,y:340,w:188,h:23},
{t:"One of my earliest memories of Third Day, even before I ",p:108,x:120,y:383,w:457,h:21},
{t:"was actually touring with them, came in Denver on the News-",p:108,x:90,y:410,w:479,h:21},
{t:"boys’ Step Up to the Microphone tour. Arriving in Denver on ",p:108,x:90,y:437,w:486,h:21},
{t:"the Newsboys’ bus, I spotted John Poitevent, who was then ",p:108,x:90,y:463,w:488,h:21},
{t:"Third Day’s traveling pastor. I asked him where the guys were. ",p:108,x:90,y:490,w:485,h:21},
{t:"He was really pumped up and explained that David, Mac, Tai, ",p:108,x:90,y:517,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Brad, and Mark had decided to take every piece of food on their ",p:108,x:90,y:543,w:484,h:21},
{t:"tour bus—bread, chips, snacks, cookies, cold meats, cheeses, ",p:108,x:90,y:570,w:487,h:23},
{t:"and bottles of water—down to a local park to distribute it to ",p:108,x:90,y:596,w:486,h:23},
{t:"the homeless people in the park. The guys weren’t doing this ",p:108,x:90,y:623,w:486,h:21},
{t:"as a publicity stunt, or to appease an organization or ministry, ",p:108,x:90,y:650,w:485,h:21},
{t:"but simply because they had seen a crowd of homeless people ",p:108,x:90,y:677,w:485,h:21},
{t:"and had seen them through the eyes of Jesus. I stored that little ",p:108,x:90,y:703,w:484,h:21},
{t:"incident in my memory banks and often referred to it later ",p:108,x:90,y:730,w:488,h:21},
{t:"when we were discussing living out our faith. During one tour ",p:108,x:90,y:757,w:485,h:21},
{t:"we studied the Book of James together, and here is what the ",p:108,x:90,y:783,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Lord taught us:",p:108,x:90,y:810,w:117,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   102",p:108,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:50 AM",p:108,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"103",p:109,x:544,y:944,w:25,h:21},
{t:"FAITH IN ACTIoN",p:109,x:90,y:352,w:234,h:48},
{t:"The book of James helps us discover just how practical our faith is ",p:109,x:105,y:430,w:439,h:21},
{t:"supposed to be. Although there are four men called James in the New ",p:109,x:90,y:456,w:454,h:21},
{t:"Testament, the most likely author of this book is James, the brother ",p:109,x:90,y:483,w:455,h:21},
{t:"of Jesus and leader of the Jerusalem Council. Originally James didn’t ",p:109,x:90,y:510,w:455,h:21},
{t:"understand the mission of Jesus and even publicly disagreed with Him, ",p:109,x:90,y:536,w:453,h:21},
{t:"but by the time he writes this book, he has a strong grasp on the idea ",p:109,x:90,y:563,w:454,h:21},
{t:"that faith is as good as dead if it isn’t accompanied by action:",p:109,x:90,y:590,w:400,h:21},
{t:"Dear brothers and sisters, what’s the use of saying you have ",p:109,x:105,y:646,w:388,h:21},
{t:"faith if you don’t prove it by your actions? That kind of faith ",p:109,x:105,y:673,w:383,h:21},
{t:"can’t save anyone. Suppose you see a brother or sister who ",p:109,x:105,y:700,w:379,h:21},
{t:"needs food or clothing, and you say, “Well, good-bye and God ",p:109,x:105,y:726,w:392,h:21},
{t:"bless you; stay warm and eat well,”—but then you don’t give ",p:109,x:105,y:753,w:396,h:21},
{t:"that person any food or clothing. What good does that do? ",p:109,x:105,y:780,w:373,h:21},
{t:"So you see, it isn’t enough just to have faith. Faith that ",p:109,x:120,y:806,w:356,h:21},
{t:"doesn’t show itself by good deeds is no faith at all—it is dead ",p:109,x:105,y:833,w:404,h:21},
{t:"and useless. ",p:109,x:105,y:860,w:84,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   103",p:109,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:51 AM",p:109,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"104",p:110,x:90,y:944,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Now someone may argue, “Some people have faith; others ",p:110,x:172,y:100,w:374,h:21},
{t:"have good deeds.” I say, “I can’t see your faith if you don’t ",p:110,x:157,y:127,w:377,h:21},
{t:"have good deeds, but I will show you my faith through my good ",p:110,x:157,y:154,w:405,h:21},
{t:"deeds.” ",p:110,x:157,y:180,w:52,h:21},
{t:"Do you still think it’s enough just to believe that there is one ",p:110,x:172,y:207,w:387,h:21},
{t:"God? Well, even the demons believe this, and they tremble in ",p:110,x:157,y:234,w:391,h:21},
{t:"terror! Fool! When will you ever learn that faith that does not ",p:110,x:157,y:260,w:392,h:21},
{t:"result in good deeds is useless?—James 2:14–20 nlt",p:110,x:157,y:287,w:340,h:21},
{t:"At frst glance this passage might appear to be going against the ",p:110,x:135,y:344,w:440,h:21},
{t:"biblical truth that we are saved by faith and not by works, but James ",p:110,x:120,y:370,w:454,h:21},
{t:"doesn’t intend to contradict this at all. He is simply saying that acting ",p:110,x:120,y:397,w:454,h:21},
{t:"righteously toward the poor and disadvantaged is the genuine evidence ",p:110,x:120,y:424,w:453,h:21},
{t:"of a saving faith. He exposes the lie that there can be some believers ",p:110,x:120,y:450,w:454,h:21},
{t:"who are just “faith” people and others who are purely “deeds” people.",p:110,x:120,y:477,w:447,h:21},
{t:"James challenges us that head knowledge isn’t the be-all and end-",p:110,x:135,y:504,w:435,h:21},
{t:"all. We can be theologically correct and know all the right doctrine, but ",p:110,x:120,y:530,w:453,h:21},
{t:"how consistent are we about transforming theory into practice?",p:110,x:120,y:557,w:404,h:21},
{t:"In the times when our faith is challenged and when we see others ",p:110,x:135,y:584,w:440,h:21},
{t:"suffering and in deep need, can we be people who demonstrate faith ",p:110,x:120,y:610,w:454,h:21},
{t:"and love in deeds as well as words?",p:110,x:120,y:637,w:229,h:21},
{t:"Real faith and real love don’t display prejudice, selfshness, ",p:110,x:186,y:679,w:386,h:21},
{t:"•	",p:110,x:156,y:678,w:13,h:23},
{t:"or favoritism.",p:110,x:186,y:705,w:85,h:21},
{t:"Real faith and real love don’t show halfheartedness, apa-",p:110,x:186,y:732,w:369,h:21},
{t:"•	",p:110,x:156,y:731,w:13,h:23},
{t:"thy, or indifference.",p:110,x:186,y:759,w:123,h:21},
{t:"Real faith and real love take us away from ourselves, our ",p:110,x:186,y:786,w:367,h:21},
{t:"•	",p:110,x:156,y:784,w:13,h:23},
{t:"comfortable worlds, and our preoccupations into the suffer-",p:110,x:186,y:812,w:381,h:21},
{t:"ing and broken world of those around us.",p:110,x:186,y:839,w:261,h:21},
{t:"Real faith and real love are most perfectly demonstrated in ",p:110,x:186,y:866,w:381,h:21},
{t:"•	",p:110,x:156,y:864,w:13,h:23},
{t:"the life of Jesus.",p:110,x:186,y:892,w:103,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   104",p:110,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:52 AM",p:110,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"105",p:111,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"James gives us two examples from the Old Testament of people who ",p:111,x:105,y:100,w:439,h:21},
{t:"put their faith into practice. First, he reminds us that Abraham was ",p:111,x:90,y:127,w:455,h:21},
{t:"called a “friend of God” and that the Lord declared Abraham to be righ-",p:111,x:90,y:154,w:450,h:21},
{t:"teous. Abraham demonstrated that he was indeed a righteous friend ",p:111,x:90,y:180,w:455,h:21},
{t:"of God when he was willing to sacrifce his son Isaac, proving that his ",p:111,x:90,y:207,w:454,h:21},
{t:"faith and his love for the Lord were real.",p:111,x:90,y:234,w:255,h:21},
{t:"The second example James draws to our attention is a surprising ",p:111,x:105,y:260,w:441,h:21},
{t:"one, the prostitute Rahab. James wasn’t trying to justify her job, but ",p:111,x:90,y:287,w:455,h:21},
{t:"he tells us that she too was seen as righteous in the eyes of the Lord ",p:111,x:90,y:314,w:454,h:21},
{t:"because of her actions in protecting a bunch of Israelite spies.",p:111,x:90,y:340,w:400,h:21},
{t:"The lesson to learn from the writings of James is that our faith must ",p:111,x:105,y:367,w:438,h:21},
{t:"be alive and practical and not just confned to a set of beliefs.",p:111,x:90,y:394,w:398,h:21},
{t:"In 2005, Third Day, like all Americans and most people all ",p:111,x:120,y:481,w:455,h:21},
{t:"over the world, was shocked to see the terrible effects of Hur-",p:111,x:90,y:508,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ricane Katrina. Almost immediately they knew they should do ",p:111,x:90,y:535,w:485,h:21},
{t:"something to help. Mark Lee takes up the story:",p:111,x:90,y:561,w:366,h:21},
{t:"Afer the tragic events in the Gulf region, we tried to fnd ways we as a ",p:111,x:90,y:617,w:465,h:22},
{t:"band could get involved. So when KSBJ, a radio station in Hous-",p:111,x:90,y:643,w:419,h:22},
{t:"ton, contacted us about taking part in its beneft concert for ",p:111,x:90,y:670,w:396,h:22},
{t:"evacuees in that area, we knew this was something we wanted ",p:111,x:90,y:697,w:410,h:22},
{t:"to be a part of. A large number of people have migrated to ",p:111,x:90,y:723,w:398,h:22},
{t:"that area in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and people in Hous-",p:111,x:90,y:750,w:415,h:22},
{t:"ton have been responding in a big way . Literally hours afer the ",p:111,x:90,y:777,w:417,h:22},
{t:"frst evacuees arrived in Houston, KSBJ started a campaign called Cards ",p:111,x:90,y:803,w:469,h:22},
{t:"for Katrina where people could donate gif cards to help out those in ",p:111,x:90,y:830,w:461,h:22},
{t:"need. Te goal of Concert for Katrina, which also featured TobyMac, the ",p:111,x:90,y:857,w:481,h:22},
{t:"Crabb Family, and Natalie Grant, was to raise gif cards for this project. ",p:111,x:90,y:883,w:460,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   105",p:111,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:53 AM",p:111,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"106",p:112,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:112,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"We arrived in Houston early in the afernoon and immediately traveled ",p:112,x:90,y:100,w:478,h:22},
{t:"to the Reliant Center where most of the remaining evacuees were stay-",p:112,x:90,y:127,w:472,h:22},
{t:"ing. We had the opportunity to help serve lunch at the shelter and then ",p:112,x:90,y:153,w:483,h:22},
{t:"took a brief tour. We got the chance to talk with several people who ",p:112,x:90,y:180,w:460,h:22},
{t:"had been staying there since the hurricane. It is overwhelming to go ",p:112,x:90,y:207,w:455,h:22},
{t:"into situations like this—you don’t really know what to say to somebody ",p:112,x:90,y:234,w:480,h:22},
{t:"who’s lost so much. All you can do is try to love people and help them ",p:112,x:90,y:260,w:474,h:22},
{t:"think about something else for a while. We all were deeply impacted ",p:112,x:90,y:287,w:463,h:22},
{t:"by this experience. ",p:112,x:90,y:314,w:128,h:22},
{t:"Te concert itself was amazing. Other than Toby, we hadn’t seen any of ",p:112,x:90,y:340,w:476,h:22},
{t:"the other artists play live before, so it was fun to watch Natalie Grant ’s ",p:112,x:90,y:367,w:463,h:22},
{t:"and the Crabb Family",p:112,x:90,y:394,w:143,h:22},
{t:"’",p:112,x:234,y:394,w:2,h:22},
{t:"s performances. And Toby, as always, totally blew ",p:112,x:235,y:394,w:330,h:22},
{t:"the roof of. Tose were some hard acts to follow. Our performance ",p:112,x:90,y:420,w:458,h:22},
{t:"was one we won’t soon forget. Te crowd was amazing, and we ",p:112,x:90,y:447,w:429,h:22},
{t:"brought out TobyMac and Diverse City and the Crabb Family onstage ",p:112,x:90,y:474,w:474,h:22},
{t:"with us for the encore. ",p:112,x:90,y:500,w:152,h:22},
{t:"Even beter than the concert was the generosity of the fans—3,460 ",p:112,x:90,y:527,w:451,h:22},
{t:"gif cards were collected! Oh, and one last thing. Right before we went ",p:112,x:90,y:554,w:475,h:22},
{t:"onstage, we were presented with a plaque for our humanitarian eforts ",p:112,x:90,y:580,w:474,h:22},
{t:"and were informed that September 19, 2005, was “Tird Day Day” ",p:112,x:90,y:607,w:447,h:22},
{t:"in Houston. Now it all made sense. I had noticed that the birds were ",p:112,x:90,y:634,w:457,h:22},
{t:"singing a litle louder, the sun was shining a litle brighter, and the food ",p:112,x:90,y:660,w:467,h:22},
{t:"even tasted a litle bit beter. But I couldn’t quite put my fnger on it. ",p:112,x:90,y:687,w:453,h:22},
{t:"Now I knew why—it was Tird Day Day! (I hope you’re picking up on ",p:112,x:90,y:714,w:466,h:22},
{t:"the sarcasm here.) Seriously, what an honor that was. And we took it ",p:112,x:90,y:740,w:451,h:22},
{t:"as more of a sign of the generosity of our fans than anything we had ",p:112,x:90,y:767,w:455,h:22},
{t:"done. So thanks again to you, Houston Gomers, for your support and ",p:112,x:90,y:794,w:466,h:22},
{t:"your generosity in making this night a success, and also for your amazing ",p:112,x:90,y:820,w:479,h:22},
{t:"response to the needs brought on by the hurricane.",p:112,x:90,y:847,w:347,h:22},
{t:"Mark Lee, Aid Relief Concert, Houston, Texas, September 19, 2005",p:112,x:115,y:881,w:455,h:23},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   106",p:112,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:53 AM",p:112,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"107",p:113,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Tere Is Hope for the Helpless",p:113,x:368,y:41,w:202,h:21},
{t:"My personal memory of Houston comes from the fall leg of ",p:113,x:120,y:101,w:454,h:21},
{t:"the Wherever You Are tour when on a hot and humid Saturday ",p:113,x:90,y:127,w:484,h:21},
{t:"afternoon I went along with the guys in the band to take part ",p:113,x:90,y:154,w:485,h:21},
{t:"in the Gulu Walk. On Saturday, October 21, 2006, Gulu-Walk ",p:113,x:90,y:181,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Day, we joined over thirty thousand people in eighty-two cities ",p:113,x:90,y:207,w:484,h:21},
{t:"and fifteen different countries as we took to the streets to urge ",p:113,x:90,y:234,w:485,h:21},
{t:"communities to support peace in northern Uganda. The event ",p:113,x:90,y:261,w:486,h:21},
{t:"also raised over fifty thousand dollars for programs that support ",p:113,x:90,y:288,w:483,h:21},
{t:"youth education, training, and child-soldier rehabilitation. The ",p:113,x:90,y:314,w:485,h:21},
{t:"band has been involved with ministry in Uganda for a while, ",p:113,x:90,y:341,w:486,h:21},
{t:"and Tai was able to kick off the walk with a short message of ",p:113,x:90,y:368,w:485,h:21},
{t:"encouragement to the assembled walkers, who included many ",p:113,x:90,y:394,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Gomers. Our leisurely stroll through a downtown Houston park ",p:113,x:90,y:421,w:484,h:21},
{t:"was quite demanding, given the heat and the humidity. It was ",p:113,x:90,y:448,w:485,h:21},
{t:"a stark reminder that thousands of young people walk longer ",p:113,x:90,y:474,w:486,h:21},
{t:"distances every night in northern Uganda simply to find a safe ",p:113,x:90,y:501,w:485,h:21},
{t:"place to sleep. So much of the Wherever You Are album was ",p:113,x:90,y:528,w:486,h:21},
{t:"written from a perspective of giving hope to the hopeless, and ",p:113,x:90,y:554,w:485,h:21},
{t:"here Mac explains the album’s opening song:",p:113,x:90,y:581,w:349,h:21},
{t:"-tunneL-",p:113,x:257,y:632,w:159,h:48},
{t:"i wo n’t pretend to",p:113,x:158,y:701,w:214,h:38},
{t:" kno w what yo",p:113,x:347,y:696,w:153,h:38},
{t:"u’re ",p:113,x:484,y:692,w:46,h:38},
{t:"thinking",p:113,x:295,y:735,w:101,h:37},
{t:"i can’t begin to",p:113,x:143,y:776,w:184,h:37},
{t:" kno w what yo",p:113,x:300,y:770,w:153,h:38},
{t:"u’re going",p:113,x:438,y:768,w:116,h:37},
{t:"through",p:113,x:305,y:808,w:82,h:37},
{t:"i wo n’t deny the pain that yo",p:113,x:139,y:849,w:339,h:38},
{t:"u’re feeling",p:113,x:432,y:841,w:133,h:37},
{t:"But i’m go nna try and give a little hope",p:113,x:136,y:884,w:468,h:40},
{t:"to yo u",p:113,x:319,y:917,w:51,h:38},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   107",p:113,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:54 AM",p:113,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"108",p:114,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:114,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"I don’t want to sound like a broken record in regard to burdens ",p:114,x:135,y:100,w:427,h:22},
{t:"and hardships, but we play to a lot of people and talk with ",p:114,x:153,y:127,w:393,h:22},
{t:"them aferward, and we realize that everyone carries burdens. ",p:114,x:158,y:153,w:415,h:22},
{t:"None of us have all the answers, but we want to bring a ",p:114,x:158,y:180,w:374,h:22},
{t:"message of hope. It seems that we have trials for one of three ",p:114,x:153,y:207,w:412,h:22},
{t:"reasons:",p:114,x:133,y:234,w:52,h:22},
{t:"•	",p:114,x:105,y:275,w:10,h:22},
{t:"We	bring	them	on	ourselves	because	of	what	we	have	done	or	",p:114,x:120,y:275,w:428,h:22},
{t:"decisions we have made.",p:114,x:120,y:302,w:166,h:22},
{t:"•	",p:114,x:105,y:336,w:10,h:22},
{t:"Someone	else	is	bringing	them	on	us.",p:114,x:120,y:336,w:248,h:22},
{t:"•	",p:114,x:105,y:370,w:10,h:22},
{t:"Tey	are	what	God	allows	us	to	walk	through	to	draw	us	closer	to	",p:114,x:120,y:370,w:440,h:22},
{t:"Him and make us stronger .",p:114,x:120,y:397,w:175,h:22},
{t:"Tough we don’t have all of the answers, we know who does. So, as we ",p:114,x:90,y:439,w:478,h:22},
{t:"are going though a trial, we have to ask ourselves: Why is it happening? ",p:114,x:90,y:465,w:478,h:22},
{t:"How is it happening? And why is God allowing us to walk through it? ",p:114,x:90,y:492,w:465,h:22},
{t:"And ultimately, how can we grow from it? We know that we don’t have ",p:114,x:90,y:519,w:477,h:22},
{t:"all the answers, but we do want to be real. One of the verses says, “I ",p:114,x:90,y:545,w:453,h:22},
{t:"won’t pretend to know what you’re thinking / I can’t begin to know what ",p:114,x:90,y:572,w:483,h:22},
{t:"you’re going through.” We cannot know what you are going through, ",p:114,x:90,y:599,w:459,h:22},
{t:"but we can bring the hopeful message that there is a light at the end of ",p:114,x:90,y:625,w:476,h:22},
{t:"the tunnel.",p:114,x:90,y:652,w:69,h:22},
{t:"Mac Powell",p:114,x:487,y:678,w:82,h:23},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   108",p:114,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:54 AM",p:114,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"7",p:115,x:352,y:-45,w:222,h:600},
{t:"Feels Like I ’m ",p:115,x:277,y:470,w:284,h:43},
{t:"a Million Miles Away",p:115,x:93,y:517,w:457,h:43},
{t:"-san angeLo-",p:115,x:221,y:613,w:217,h:44},
{t:"what do you know",p:115,x:222,y:677,w:215,h:40},
{t:"and tell me do yo",p:115,x:98,y:717,w:235,h:40},
{t:"u have so",p:115,x:309,y:717,w:99,h:40},
{t:"mething to",p:115,x:395,y:717,w:142,h:40},
{t:" say",p:115,x:523,y:717,w:43,h:40},
{t:"Don’t get me wrong",p:115,x:199,y:757,w:262,h:40},
{t:"But i miss my home",p:115,x:204,y:797,w:251,h:40},
{t:"and it feels like i’m a million ",p:115,x:128,y:837,w:416,h:40},
{t:"miles away",p:115,x:265,y:877,w:129,h:40},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   109",p:115,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:55 AM",p:115,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"110",p:116,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:116,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"I’m starting this chapter sitting in David Carr’s fantastic new ",p:116,x:90,y:91,w:485,h:69},
{t:"home in Roswell, Georgia. David is a touch disappointed ",p:116,x:107,y:127,w:471,h:21},
{t:"because he’s just found out that the picturesque woodlands ",p:116,x:90,y:154,w:488,h:21},
{t:"surrounding the property will make it impossible for satellite ",p:116,x:90,y:181,w:486,h:21},
{t:"reception, so his TV plans have been thrown into confusion. ",p:116,x:90,y:207,w:487,h:21},
{t:"Before we head off to catch the tour bus tonight for an over-",p:116,x:90,y:234,w:480,h:21},
{t:"night trip to a summer festival, we both are taking the op-",p:116,x:90,y:261,w:479,h:21},
{t:"portunity to catch up on some work. David’s wife has taken ",p:116,x:90,y:288,w:487,h:21},
{t:"their eldest son to the dentist, and their younger son is taking ",p:116,x:90,y:314,w:485,h:21},
{t:"a nap.",p:116,x:90,y:341,w:47,h:21},
{t:"One of the great privileges of touring with Third Day is ",p:116,x:120,y:368,w:457,h:21},
{t:"seeing how committed each member is to being a husband ",p:116,x:90,y:394,w:488,h:21},
{t:"and a father. Oftentimes this can be tough with a busy touring ",p:116,x:90,y:421,w:485,h:21},
{t:"schedule. It’s a great life being on the road, but it’s no fun hav-",p:116,x:90,y:448,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ing a day off in Boise, Idaho, when your family is hundreds of ",p:116,x:90,y:474,w:485,h:21},
{t:"miles away. Nothing personal about Boise, Idaho—it’s a good ",p:116,x:90,y:501,w:486,h:23},
{t:"place, but when I’ve been on the road for two or three weeks, ",p:116,x:90,y:528,w:486,h:21},
{t:"I’d rather be with my wife and family than in a hotel room ",p:116,x:90,y:554,w:487,h:21},
{t:"thousands of miles across the Atlantic! ",p:116,x:90,y:581,w:304,h:21},
{t:"Anyone who has ever experienced the touring life will tell ",p:116,x:120,y:608,w:455,h:21},
{t:"you that problems with the plumbing, car breakdowns, or fam-",p:116,x:90,y:634,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ily illness always happen when you are away from home—not ",p:116,x:90,y:661,w:485,h:23},
{t:"on your days off! That can be very hard, both for the people on ",p:116,x:90,y:688,w:484,h:21},
{t:"the road and for the people left at home to cope with the situ-",p:116,x:90,y:714,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ation. I can remember a phone conversation with my daughter, ",p:116,x:90,y:741,w:484,h:21},
{t:"who was in the UK, while I was on a golf course with Brad. She ",p:116,x:90,y:768,w:484,h:21},
{t:"was walking along a street near our house and talking to me ",p:116,x:90,y:794,w:486,h:21},
{t:"over the phone when I heard a loud scream and then a shout of ",p:116,x:90,y:821,w:484,h:21},
{t:"“Watch out!” and then the line went dead. You can appreciate ",p:116,x:90,y:848,w:485,h:21},
{t:"that I was imagining all types of ghastly scenarios made worse ",p:116,x:90,y:874,w:484,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   110",p:116,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:55 AM",p:116,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"111",p:117,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Feels Like I'm a Million Miles Away",p:117,x:345,y:41,w:224,h:21},
{t:"by the fact that I couldn’t get hold of her on her cell phone for ",p:117,x:90,y:101,w:485,h:21},
{t:"about ten minutes. When I eventually did, she was fine; she ",p:117,x:90,y:127,w:487,h:21},
{t:"had been shouting to a friend to be careful when crossing the ",p:117,x:90,y:154,w:485,h:21},
{t:"road. It has not been easy for the guys to hear that a child is ill ",p:117,x:90,y:181,w:484,h:21},
{t:"or that one of the wives has had a car accident or that there has ",p:117,x:90,y:207,w:484,h:21},
{t:"been a problem with the house while they have had to remain ",p:117,x:90,y:234,w:485,h:21},
{t:"on the road to fulfill another handful of concerts before being ",p:117,x:90,y:261,w:485,h:21},
{t:"able to return home.",p:117,x:90,y:288,w:156,h:21},
{t:"It’s strange, but I would say that some of the loneliest times ",p:117,x:120,y:314,w:454,h:21},
{t:"of my life have been when I’m traveling from home to meet up ",p:117,x:90,y:341,w:484,h:21},
{t:"with the guys in Third Day. The car trip to the airport and the ",p:117,x:90,y:368,w:485,h:21},
{t:"outgoing flight to the US are the instances when homesickness ",p:117,x:90,y:394,w:485,h:21},
{t:"kicks in, and I have an irrational fear come over me. I know ",p:117,x:90,y:421,w:486,h:21},
{t:"that the Lord will protect my family; I know I will travel safely; ",p:117,x:90,y:448,w:484,h:21},
{t:"I know that the guys in the band will give me a great welcome; ",p:117,x:90,y:474,w:484,h:21},
{t:"but still that fear rises. ",p:117,x:90,y:501,w:178,h:21},
{t:"I’ve learned to hand it over to the Lord and not become ",p:117,x:120,y:528,w:457,h:21},
{t:"dominated by it. As soon as I meet up with the band, all is well, ",p:117,x:90,y:554,w:484,h:21},
{t:"and a reassuring call home always helps. It was even more dif-",p:117,x:90,y:581,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ficult traveling with Newsboys years ago. I didn’t have e-mail ",p:117,x:90,y:608,w:485,h:21},
{t:"or a cell phone that worked in the USA, which meant attempt-",p:117,x:90,y:634,w:480,h:21},
{t:"ing to find a pay phone every other day to stay in touch with ",p:117,x:90,y:661,w:485,h:21},
{t:"my wife. ",p:117,x:90,y:688,w:72,h:21},
{t:"I often say to folks that the greatest ministry challenge ",p:117,x:120,y:714,w:458,h:21},
{t:"God has given me is to be a good husband and a good father. ",p:117,x:90,y:741,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Knowing all the guys as I do, these roles are at the top of their ",p:117,x:90,y:768,w:485,h:21},
{t:"priority lists, too. As Christian communicators, it’s sometimes ",p:117,x:90,y:794,w:486,h:21},
{t:"difficult to live up to the standards we project from the stage; ",p:117,x:90,y:821,w:485,h:21},
{t:"people assume that because we have a public ministry and ",p:117,x:90,y:848,w:488,h:21},
{t:"draw audiences of thousands a night we must be a cross be-",p:117,x:90,y:874,w:480,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   111",p:117,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:55 AM",p:117,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"112",p:118,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:118,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"tween Billy Graham and the apostle Paul. I’ve seen enough of ",p:118,x:90,y:101,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Mac, Mark, Tai, Brad, and David in their family settings to tell ",p:118,x:90,y:127,w:485,h:21},
{t:"you two things. First, they aren’t perfect! Second, they are men ",p:118,x:90,y:154,w:484,h:21},
{t:"of God genuinely honoring Him in their marriages and in their ",p:118,x:90,y:181,w:484,h:21},
{t:"family life.",p:118,x:90,y:207,w:83,h:21},
{t:"Here are some reflections from David:",p:118,x:120,y:234,w:291,h:21},
{t:"It ’ s a fairly constant prayer of ours that God would knit us to-",p:118,x:141,y:289,w:399,h:22},
{t:"gether and bring increasing unity and purpose to our being ",p:118,x:156,y:316,w:404,h:22},
{t:"together. We have heard so ofen from fans that there is an ",p:118,x:160,y:343,w:394,h:22},
{t:"anointing on Tird Day. If that is true, it means that God has ",p:118,x:158,y:369,w:393,h:22},
{t:"put this thing together and that He is the one who sustains it. ",p:118,x:150,y:396,w:406,h:22},
{t:"It ’ s not always easy to work together, running a ministry and a busi-",p:118,x:125,y:423,w:439,h:22},
{t:"ness, especially one as complex as Tird Day. We say all the time that we ",p:118,x:90,y:450,w:482,h:22},
{t:"have the best jobs in the world because we get to make a good living ",p:118,x:90,y:476,w:471,h:22},
{t:"doing what we love to do and also afect the hearts and minds of many ",p:118,x:90,y:503,w:480,h:22},
{t:"people in vast ways.",p:118,x:90,y:530,w:132,h:22},
{t:"One interesting observation about Tird Day is that if it weren’t for ",p:118,x:90,y:556,w:447,h:22},
{t:"the musical common ground and the spiritual calling and direction on ",p:118,x:90,y:583,w:467,h:22},
{t:"the fve of us, some of us probably wouldn’t have become friends by ",p:118,x:90,y:610,w:464,h:22},
{t:"default. It ’s not that we don’t like each other or appreciate one another ’s ",p:118,x:90,y:636,w:484,h:22},
{t:"personality or anything like that, but let ’s face it: we tend to hang out ",p:118,x:90,y:663,w:458,h:22},
{t:"with people of like mind or similar interests more than we do with those ",p:118,x:90,y:690,w:482,h:22},
{t:"who are opposite us. Tankfully, there are the music and our calling to ",p:118,x:90,y:716,w:468,h:22},
{t:"guide us on the same path, because they have taught us, and continue ",p:118,x:90,y:743,w:471,h:22},
{t:"to teach each of us, the importance of majoring on the major things and ",p:118,x:90,y:770,w:481,h:22},
{t:"not on the negative. Te positives far outweigh any negatives anyhow.",p:118,x:90,y:796,w:465,h:22},
{t:"Our wives have a diferent situation to deal with by default. While they ",p:118,x:90,y:823,w:474,h:22},
{t:"don’t dislike each other, there is not as much to bring them together ",p:118,x:90,y:850,w:455,h:22},
{t:"as there is for us in the band. Number one, geographical proximity is ",p:118,x:90,y:876,w:458,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   112",p:118,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:56 AM",p:118,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"113",p:119,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Feels Like I'm a Million Miles Away",p:119,x:345,y:41,w:224,h:21},
{t:"a challenge as some of us live an hour, realistically, from one another ",p:119,x:90,y:100,w:453,h:22},
{t:"thanks to the snail-pace crawl of Atlanta trafc. Also, when we get of ",p:119,x:90,y:127,w:457,h:22},
{t:"the road or out of the studio, we all need a break from each other, so ",p:119,x:90,y:153,w:466,h:22},
{t:"the families don’t get together very ofen. I think that is unfortunate, but ",p:119,x:90,y:180,w:475,h:22},
{t:"it ’ s just a reality. It ’s hard enough to carve out time to hang out with our ",p:119,x:90,y:207,w:472,h:22},
{t:"neighbors sometimes, and they are within walking distance! But our ",p:119,x:90,y:234,w:449,h:22},
{t:"wives all have diferent personalities, not to mention the fact that they ",p:119,x:90,y:260,w:463,h:22},
{t:"are incredibly tied up with the collective fourteen kids in the Tird-",p:119,x:90,y:287,w:447,h:22},
{t:"Day camp. Again, it ’s not a mater of dislike or jealousy, but without the ",p:119,x:90,y:314,w:470,h:22},
{t:"umbrella of Tird Day, most of our wives would not fnd themselves ",p:119,x:90,y:340,w:453,h:22},
{t:"hanging out in the same circles of friends.",p:119,x:90,y:367,w:272,h:22},
{t:"To be honest, I work harder at home than I do when I’m on the road! I ",p:119,x:90,y:394,w:473,h:22},
{t:"guess that ’s one of the dangers of touring life: it can become an escape ",p:119,x:90,y:420,w:476,h:22},
{t:"from the reality of everyday life. I want to enjoy life on the road but ",p:119,x:90,y:447,w:451,h:22},
{t:"never forget that I have a family that needs me and that I want to be ",p:119,x:90,y:474,w:455,h:22},
{t:"with.",p:119,x:90,y:500,w:29,h:22},
{t:"David Carr, November 2006",p:119,x:370,y:526,w:200,h:23},
{t:"In the fall of 2005, we embark ed upon a low-key promotion-",p:119,x:120,y:570,w:449,h:21},
{t:"al tour for the release of the Wherever You Are album, and on ",p:119,x:90,y:597,w:486,h:21},
{t:"our days off I stayed with Mac and his family",p:119,x:90,y:623,w:352,h:21},
{t:". This gave me the ",p:119,x:432,y:623,w:142,h:21},
{t:"chance to see how he handled family life. It was so cool to join",p:119,x:90,y:650,w:491,h:21},
{t:"hands with Mac, his wife, and their children around the dinner",p:119,x:90,y:677,w:491,h:21},
{t:"table to give thanks for the food, to watch some newly created",p:119,x:90,y:703,w:491,h:21},
{t:"family movies, and also to see that just occasionally Mac gets",p:119,x:90,y:730,w:491,h:21},
{t:"a little stressed when driving his family around town! Mac has",p:119,x:90,y:757,w:491,h:21},
{t:"a great philosophy about watching movies when we are on the",p:119,x:90,y:783,w:490,h:21},
{t:"road. However much he wants to watch a new release, if it’s one",p:119,x:90,y:810,w:491,h:21},
{t:"his wife would like to see too, he will wait until he’s home and",p:119,x:90,y:837,w:488,h:21},
{t:"take her to see it. During the time I was staying with them, they",p:119,x:90,y:863,w:491,h:21},
{t:"headed off to see the film about Johnny Cash, ",p:119,x:90,y:890,w:359,h:21},
{t:"Walk the Line. ",p:119,x:441,y:890,w:113,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   113",p:119,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:56 AM",p:119,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"114",p:120,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:120,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"All of the guys much prefer to catch a red-eye flight home ",p:120,x:120,y:101,w:455,h:21},
{t:"to see wives and family on off days on the road rather than ",p:120,x:90,y:127,w:487,h:21},
{t:"have the luxury of a late rise in a hotel room somewhere. When ",p:120,x:90,y:154,w:484,h:21},
{t:"Mark lived in Nashville and I was in town, he and his wife ",p:120,x:90,y:181,w:487,h:21},
{t:"would often welcome me on a family trip out to eat. Their ",p:120,x:90,y:207,w:488,h:21},
{t:"young daughter would always steal the show. It was on one ",p:120,x:90,y:234,w:487,h:21},
{t:"of these occasions that we discovered that we shared the same ",p:120,x:90,y:261,w:485,h:21},
{t:"name for our cats!",p:120,x:90,y:288,w:141,h:21},
{t:"Brad and I do a lot of talking on the golf course, and family ",p:120,x:120,y:314,w:454,h:21},
{t:"life is most often the topic. Looking fifteen years or so down the ",p:120,x:90,y:341,w:484,h:21},
{t:"road, Brad sees himself as a professional golfer on a golf course ",p:120,x:90,y:368,w:484,h:21},
{t:"in Florida with his wife in her dream job working at Disney! ",p:120,x:90,y:394,w:486,h:21},
{t:"I’m going to keep in contact with that family—free tickets to ",p:120,x:90,y:421,w:486,h:23},
{t:"Florida golf and to a theme park are too good to miss! ",p:120,x:90,y:448,w:424,h:21},
{t:"Obviously, God has granted us extreme blessings in our careers to ",p:120,x:106,y:503,w:445,h:22},
{t:"be able to make beautiful music that we enjoy, provide for ",p:120,x:145,y:530,w:393,h:22},
{t:"our families, point others to Him, and ultimately bring honor ",p:120,x:156,y:556,w:401,h:22},
{t:"and glory to His name. However, success is a double-edged ",p:120,x:158,y:583,w:405,h:22},
{t:"sword. On one hand, it afords us the opportunity to enjoy ",p:120,x:156,y:610,w:397,h:22},
{t:"touring on a level that many artists never get to enjoy. On the ",p:120,x:146,y:636,w:412,h:22},
{t:"other hand, it demands more of our time. ",p:120,x:113,y:663,w:280,h:22},
{t:"On our very frst ofcial tour ten years ago, most of us were newlyweds. ",p:120,x:90,y:690,w:481,h:22},
{t:"We had no idea how to manage and protect our time, let alone our ",p:120,x:90,y:716,w:458,h:22},
{t:"barely born marriages. Tat year we were gone over 250 days from ",p:120,x:90,y:743,w:456,h:22},
{t:"home. We had to learn the lesson the hard way. We formed an ac-",p:120,x:90,y:770,w:442,h:22},
{t:"countability board of pastors who could help us maneuver through ",p:120,x:90,y:796,w:453,h:22},
{t:"tough decisions and scheduling demands. We commited to God and ",p:120,x:90,y:823,w:471,h:22},
{t:"our families never to be gone for more than two weeks at a time. It has ",p:120,x:90,y:850,w:474,h:22},
{t:"served us well to put them frst—our premier calling. Now ten years ",p:120,x:90,y:876,w:456,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   114",p:120,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:56 AM",p:120,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"115",p:121,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Feels Like I'm a Million Miles Away",p:121,x:345,y:41,w:224,h:21},
{t:"later, we get home a couple of days a week during the heavy touring ",p:121,x:90,y:100,w:463,h:22},
{t:"seasons. It may not be the most proftable business model, but it is the ",p:121,x:90,y:127,w:468,h:22},
{t:"plan God has given us to be the best husbands, fathers, friends, and ",p:121,x:90,y:153,w:453,h:22},
{t:"Tird Day we can ultimately be.",p:121,x:90,y:180,w:208,h:22},
{t:"Brad Avery, October 2006",p:121,x:381,y:206,w:188,h:23},
{t:"Most of my touring experiences with Third Day have been ",p:121,x:120,y:250,w:455,h:21},
{t:"very pleasant. I started traveling with the band long after their ",p:121,x:90,y:277,w:485,h:21},
{t:"early days of driving their own trucks and personally loading ",p:121,x:90,y:303,w:486,h:21},
{t:"their own merchandise. My travels have always been on tour ",p:121,x:90,y:330,w:486,h:21},
{t:"buses or planes. Now and then, however, I have begun to think ",p:121,x:90,y:357,w:484,h:21},
{t:"that I’m getting too old for sleeping in a bunk on a bus, even if ",p:121,x:90,y:383,w:484,h:21},
{t:"that bunk does have air conditioning and a DVD player. I can ",p:121,x:90,y:410,w:485,h:21},
{t:"vividly remember driving aimlessly around the city of Belfast ",p:121,x:90,y:437,w:486,h:21},
{t:"in the early hours of the morning in a sleeper bus with our ",p:121,x:90,y:463,w:487,h:21},
{t:"hired driver attempting to find the hotel we were to stay in. The ",p:121,x:90,y:490,w:484,h:21},
{t:"three-hour journey from Dublin became closer to five hours. To ",p:121,x:90,y:517,w:484,h:21},
{t:"make matters worse, we had managed to rent the worst sleeper ",p:121,x:90,y:543,w:484,h:21},
{t:"bus in the UK, one with diesel fumes constantly seeping into ",p:121,x:90,y:570,w:486,h:21},
{t:"the sleeping area and an unusable toilet. At one stage it be-",p:121,x:90,y:597,w:479,h:21},
{t:"came so desperate that we considered paying a taxi to drive to ",p:121,x:90,y:623,w:485,h:21},
{t:"the hotel just so the bus driver could follow the cab! ",p:121,x:90,y:650,w:408,h:21},
{t:"Even more frustrating can be those incidents that happen ",p:121,x:120,y:677,w:456,h:21},
{t:"back at home when we are on the road. It’s actually quite easy ",p:121,x:90,y:703,w:485,h:21},
{t:"to slip into a negative mindset when traveling. The big secret ",p:121,x:90,y:730,w:486,h:21},
{t:"to so much of road life, like the Christian journey in general, ",p:121,x:90,y:757,w:486,h:21},
{t:"is all about maintaining a positive attitude and not allowing ",p:121,x:90,y:783,w:487,h:21},
{t:"oneself to become cynical or morose.",p:121,x:90,y:810,w:285,h:21},
{t:"Mark Lee is the man who updates Third Day’s weblog from ",p:121,x:120,y:837,w:454,h:21},
{t:"the road, so some of his observations and reflections will help ",p:121,x:90,y:863,w:485,h:21},
{t:"give you a sense of the band’s perspective about touring life as ",p:121,x:90,y:890,w:484,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   115",p:121,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:56 AM",p:121,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"116",p:122,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:122,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"it really is. Mark wrote regularly on the fall leg of the Wherever ",p:122,x:90,y:101,w:485,h:21},
{t:"You Are tour. In the following excerpts you’ll see his honesty ",p:122,x:90,y:127,w:486,h:21},
{t:"come through.",p:122,x:90,y:154,w:111,h:21},
{t:"First of all, if you ask what we did today, the answer would be basically ",p:122,x:90,y:209,w:469,h:22},
{t:"“nothing. ” Yup, it ’s geting to be toward the middle of the tour when ",p:122,x:90,y:236,w:452,h:22},
{t:"you’re just trying to grind it out and get through it. When I say ",p:122,x:140,y:263,w:416,h:22},
{t:"that, it has nothing to do with the actual shows. Tose have ",p:122,x:156,y:289,w:393,h:22},
{t:"been going quite well. It ’s just that sort of funk that can set in ",p:122,x:160,y:316,w:402,h:22},
{t:"when you ’ve been away from home a lot over a short period ",p:122,x:160,y:343,w:413,h:22},
{t:"of time. I’m sure it was during one of these times when Mac ",p:122,x:151,y:369,w:397,h:22},
{t:"wrote “San Angelo” with the classic line “though you’re surrounded ",p:122,x:128,y:396,w:445,h:22},
{t:"you still feel so alone” (or something like that). ",p:122,x:90,y:423,w:304,h:22},
{t:"Okay, having said we did nothing, a good deal of things happened, ",p:122,x:90,y:450,w:453,h:22},
{t:"albeit of the somewhat mundane sort. Tai and David got out and ",p:122,x:90,y:476,w:436,h:22},
{t:"enjoyed a nearby greenway trail that featured a visit to Johnny Apple-",p:122,x:90,y:503,w:464,h:22},
{t:"seed’s grave. And we hung out on the bus quite a bit watching college ",p:122,x:90,y:530,w:474,h:22},
{t:"football (Mac ’s team won, so he was in prety good spirits) and a new ",p:122,x:90,y:556,w:464,h:22},
{t:"British series Nigel brought out. Speaking of Nigel, he has a lot of ties ",p:122,x:90,y:583,w:459,h:22},
{t:"with Fort Wayne. He’s got some friends in the area, and he ofen speaks ",p:122,x:90,y:610,w:479,h:22},
{t:"at local churches and colleges. One of his good friends, Andy, was here ",p:122,x:90,y:636,w:477,h:22},
{t:"today, so it was cool to hang out with him. Also, our good friend David ",p:122,x:90,y:663,w:473,h:22},
{t:"Mullins and his family were at the show. Nigel led us in another study to-",p:122,x:90,y:690,w:479,h:22},
{t:"night based on Philippians 1, and we had a great time of prayer before ",p:122,x:90,y:716,w:477,h:22},
{t:"the show.",p:122,x:90,y:743,w:62,h:22},
{t:"Mark Lee, October 2006, Fort Wayne, Indiana",p:122,x:255,y:776,w:314,h:23},
{t:"Fort Wayne was a significant concert for me because I had ",p:122,x:120,y:820,w:455,h:21},
{t:"so many friends in town, but for the guys in the band it was ",p:122,x:90,y:847,w:486,h:21},
{t:"just another show in the middle of the tour to “grind through.” ",p:122,x:90,y:874,w:484,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   116",p:122,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:57 AM",p:122,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"117",p:123,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Feels Like I'm a Million Miles Away",p:123,x:345,y:41,w:224,h:21},
{t:"That’s not being disrespectful to Fort Wayne or to the guys in ",p:123,x:90,y:101,w:485,h:21},
{t:"the band, but it’s the reality—touring life can sometimes be ",p:123,x:90,y:127,w:487,h:23},
{t:"long and arduous. I’m always amazed that the same show can ",p:123,x:90,y:154,w:485,h:21},
{t:"be fantastic from a guitarist’s point of view but be a disaster ",p:123,x:90,y:181,w:486,h:21},
{t:"from the keyboard player’s perspective; or it can be a triumph ",p:123,x:90,y:207,w:485,h:21},
{t:"for the vocalist but really difficult for the drummer.",p:123,x:90,y:234,w:396,h:21},
{t:"It can be disappointing coming off stage having played ",p:123,x:120,y:261,w:458,h:21},
{t:"to a few thousand people knowing that you’ve had technical ",p:123,x:90,y:288,w:486,h:21},
{t:"problems or that you simply weren’t in the zone. Mark explains ",p:123,x:90,y:314,w:484,h:21},
{t:"much better than I’m able to:",p:123,x:90,y:341,w:225,h:21},
{t:"Before I get to the heart of this post, let it be known that we love play-",p:123,x:90,y:396,w:467,h:22},
{t:"ing in South Carolina. It was the frst place we ever played outside our ",p:123,x:90,y:423,w:471,h:22},
{t:"home state of Georgia, and they",p:123,x:90,y:450,w:215,h:22},
{t:"’ve always been very good to ",p:123,x:306,y:450,w:202,h:22},
{t:"us. So if any of the following comments seem negative, it has ",p:123,x:90,y:476,w:402,h:22},
{t:"nothing to do with the fans or the crowd, or even the show ",p:123,x:90,y:503,w:399,h:22},
{t:"as a whole. I just thought you guys might like to hear our side ",p:123,x:90,y:530,w:407,h:22},
{t:"of the picture. Sometimes you leave the stage going, “Wow! ",p:123,x:90,y:556,w:403,h:22},
{t:"Tat was an amazing show. ” Sometimes it ’s more like, “Tat was a ",p:123,x:90,y:583,w:424,h:22},
{t:"terrible show.” Tonight was neither. I think we all lef the stage, scratched ",p:123,x:90,y:610,w:477,h:22},
{t:"our heads, and wondered what in the world just happened. Tere ",p:123,x:90,y:636,w:447,h:22},
{t:"were some excellent moments. Maybe because it ’s almost the end of ",p:123,x:90,y:663,w:462,h:22},
{t:"the show and we were leting our proverbial hair down, but the acous-",p:123,x:90,y:690,w:474,h:22},
{t:"tic set was expanded to feature our second-ever performance of “Born ",p:123,x:90,y:716,w:478,h:22},
{t:"in Bethlehem.” But we didn’t stop there. We took requests and found ",p:123,x:90,y:743,w:461,h:22},
{t:"ourselves playing “Give,” “Never Bow Down,” and even “Rockstar .” Tat ",p:123,x:90,y:770,w:463,h:22},
{t:"would have been awesome. We tried to keep it going and did “Take ",p:123,x:90,y:796,w:463,h:22},
{t:"My Life” instead of “Love Song. ” Somebody in the crowd tried to start ",p:123,x:90,y:823,w:465,h:22},
{t:"a clap in the middle of the song, and I don’t think the song ever found ",p:123,x:90,y:850,w:471,h:22},
{t:"a tempo. And there was some kind of vortex happening on my side ",p:123,x:90,y:876,w:455,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   117",p:123,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:57 AM",p:123,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"118",p:124,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:124,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"of the stage. Tere’s an audio term called “out of phase,” which means ",p:124,x:90,y:100,w:461,h:22},
{t:"two microphones or sound sources are set up in a fashion where they ",p:124,x:90,y:127,w:469,h:22},
{t:"cancel out each other. I think I was “out of phase” for the beter part of ",p:124,x:90,y:153,w:469,h:22},
{t:"the evening. If I zigged, everyone else zagged. It all seemed to start with ",p:124,x:90,y:180,w:480,h:22},
{t:"the frst song when my mandolin wasn’t working. And it was a down-",p:124,x:90,y:207,w:453,h:22},
{t:"ward spiral from there. Sometimes you’re the windshield; sometimes ",p:124,x:90,y:234,w:455,h:22},
{t:"you’re the bug. Overall, I think it was a fun show, and I think anyone who ",p:124,x:90,y:260,w:481,h:22},
{t:"atended probably had a great time. But in the interest of total access ",p:124,x:90,y:287,w:462,h:22},
{t:"and honesty here, I thought I’d share how it felt from my perspective.",p:124,x:90,y:314,w:456,h:22},
{t:"Mark Lee, November 2006, Columbia, South Carolina",p:124,x:202,y:347,w:367,h:23},
{t:"In my role as pastor, one of the things I try to do as soon ",p:124,x:120,y:391,w:456,h:21},
{t:"as a concert has ended is to find out from the guys how they ",p:124,x:90,y:417,w:486,h:21},
{t:"think it went and what the general feeling about the show is. ",p:124,x:90,y:444,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Oftentimes what I think has been a great show will only be ",p:124,x:90,y:471,w:487,h:21},
{t:"a good show from the band’s perspective (perhaps I’m easily ",p:124,x:90,y:497,w:487,h:21},
{t:"pleased!) Sometimes because I’ve been in conversation with ",p:124,x:90,y:524,w:488,h:21},
{t:"people backstage on and off during the concert, I’ll have to-",p:124,x:90,y:551,w:479,h:21},
{t:"tally missed out on the fact that the guys are having a fantastic ",p:124,x:90,y:577,w:484,h:21},
{t:"night! Many of the devotions we share on the road focus on ",p:124,x:90,y:604,w:486,h:21},
{t:"challenging us to rise above the circumstances, whatever they ",p:124,x:90,y:631,w:485,h:21},
{t:"may be, and to seek the Lord’s strength to persevere. The real ",p:124,x:90,y:658,w:486,h:21},
{t:"pleasure comes from seeing this happen. Here’s Mark again, ",p:124,x:90,y:684,w:487,h:21},
{t:"talking about a concert:",p:124,x:90,y:711,w:184,h:21},
{t:"Great show tonight. Te day started, like all frst shows of a run on this ",p:124,x:105,y:766,w:464,h:22},
{t:"tour, with us fying in from Atlanta. Prety uneventul fight (good ",p:124,x:145,y:793,w:423,h:22},
{t:"thing), although the weather in both Atlanta and Cincinnati ",p:124,x:158,y:819,w:392,h:22},
{t:"was prety nasty today. Ten it hit us hard before the show ",p:124,x:160,y:846,w:392,h:22},
{t:"that, with all the travel and everything built up over the last ",p:124,x:158,y:873,w:394,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   118",p:124,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:57 AM",p:124,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"119",p:125,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Feels Like I'm a Million Miles Away",p:125,x:345,y:41,w:224,h:21},
{t:"few weeks, we were prety tired. Don’t get me wrong—the shows have ",p:125,x:90,y:100,w:478,h:22},
{t:"been awesome. It ’s everything else that makes it tough. But shows like ",p:125,x:90,y:127,w:462,h:22},
{t:"tonight make me want to keep this tour going indefnitely. Te audience ",p:125,x:90,y:153,w:481,h:22},
{t:"was amazing: loud, fun, and, I’ll be honest, a litle crazy. We stuck to our ",p:125,x:90,y:180,w:470,h:22},
{t:"guns on the set list and played the rocking set we’ve been doing the ",p:125,x:90,y:207,w:461,h:22},
{t:"last couple of weeks. Te thing I’ll take away from tonight is the dancing ",p:125,x:90,y:234,w:475,h:22},
{t:"that went on in the frst couple of rows and a lot of air guitar too—quite ",p:125,x:90,y:260,w:484,h:22},
{t:"interesting—and the people taking pictures. Someone would run up ",p:125,x:90,y:287,w:462,h:22},
{t:"to the front of the stage, and a couple of us would jump in to pose for ",p:125,x:90,y:314,w:472,h:22},
{t:"pictures with them. It was prety hilarious.",p:125,x:90,y:340,w:270,h:22},
{t:"Mark Lee, November 2006, Cincinnati, Ohio ",p:125,x:266,y:374,w:308,h:23},
{t:"Touring life can be a strange mix of highs and lows, plea-",p:125,x:120,y:417,w:449,h:21},
{t:"sures and hardships, fun and frustration. In a way it’s a micro-",p:125,x:90,y:444,w:479,h:21},
{t:"cosm of life itself and especially the Christian journey.",p:125,x:90,y:471,w:418,h:21},
{t:"-mountain oF goD-",p:125,x:169,y:614,w:314,h:54},
{t:"after all that i’ve been through",p:125,x:127,y:690,w:403,h:40},
{t:"now i realize the truth",p:125,x:176,y:728,w:306,h:40},
{t:"that i must go through the valley",p:125,x:115,y:770,w:431,h:40},
{t:"to stand upon the mountain of god",p:125,x:114,y:796,w:436,h:55},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   119",p:125,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:21:58 AM",p:125,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"120",p:126,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:126,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"We’ve all had those mountaintop experiences. You feel so close to ",p:126,x:90,y:100,w:446,h:22},
{t:"God. You can see for miles. Visions galore. Ten life happens, ",p:126,x:143,y:127,w:409,h:22},
{t:"the valley, the struggles. We ofen think that the valley is a ",p:126,x:156,y:153,w:382,h:22},
{t:"consequence for the sin of our life. But maybe it ’s just our ",p:126,x:158,y:180,w:385,h:22},
{t:"life. We’re all promised struggle. We all experience sufering. ",p:126,x:158,y:207,w:402,h:22},
{t:"Te hope we have is wonderfully expressed in a line from this ",p:126,x:150,y:234,w:415,h:22},
{t:"song: “You were there with me.” We don’t have to go through the ",p:126,x:121,y:260,w:439,h:22},
{t:"inevitable trials of life on our own.",p:126,x:90,y:287,w:225,h:22},
{t:"Tai Anderson on the song “Mountain of God”",p:126,x:258,y:320,w:311,h:23},
{t:"Here’s a devotion we shared together on the Wherever You ",p:126,x:120,y:364,w:455,h:21},
{t:"Are tour, when we all felt we were running on empty and ",p:126,x:90,y:391,w:488,h:21},
{t:"needed some energy, enthusiasm, and a fresh perspective to ",p:126,x:90,y:417,w:488,h:21},
{t:"help us finish well.",p:126,x:90,y:444,w:145,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   120",p:126,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:00 AM",p:126,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"121",p:127,x:544,y:944,w:25,h:21},
{t:"AS THE SPIRIT ENABLED THEM",p:127,x:90,y:355,w:426,h:48},
{t:"If I were choosing my team to conquer the world, I’d be looking for ",p:127,x:105,y:433,w:440,h:21},
{t:"intelligent, affuent people with good looks, organizational ability, great ",p:127,x:90,y:459,w:453,h:21},
{t:"communication skills; and I’d be looking for a blend of youth and ex-",p:127,x:90,y:486,w:449,h:21},
{t:"perience, an ethnic and gender mix; and I’d probably want to throw in ",p:127,x:90,y:513,w:454,h:21},
{t:"musical aptitude and a capacity to connect with a younger generation. ",p:127,x:90,y:539,w:453,h:21},
{t:"When I begin to think like this, two points strike home to me. First, I ",p:127,x:90,y:566,w:455,h:21},
{t:"wouldn’t pass my own selection process! Second, I don’t think I’d have ",p:127,x:90,y:593,w:453,h:21},
{t:"ever selected the team Jesus did!",p:127,x:90,y:619,w:213,h:21},
{t:"I’m always amazed by the way Jesus managed to fnd a bunch of ",p:127,x:105,y:646,w:440,h:21},
{t:"misfts like the disciples to change the world. He got Matthew, a tax col-",p:127,x:90,y:673,w:449,h:21},
{t:"lector for the Romans, to work alongside Simon the Zealot, who wanted ",p:127,x:90,y:699,w:453,h:21},
{t:"nothing more than to do damage to anything Roman! He transformed ",p:127,x:90,y:726,w:454,h:21},
{t:"a bunch of fshermen into fshers of men. He used the hotheaded Pe-",p:127,x:90,y:753,w:450,h:21},
{t:"ter and the equally thunderous James and John to bring peace into ",p:127,x:90,y:779,w:456,h:21},
{t:"people’s lives.",p:127,x:90,y:806,w:89,h:21},
{t:"One small, seemingly insignifcant phrase helps us understand how ",p:127,x:105,y:833,w:439,h:21},
{t:"the disciples changed from fear to faith, from confusion to courage, ",p:127,x:90,y:859,w:455,h:21},
{t:"from misunderstanding to ministry. In Acts 2 we read the familiar pas-",p:127,x:90,y:886,w:450,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   121",p:127,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:00 AM",p:127,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"122",p:128,x:90,y:944,w:25,h:21},
{t:"sage about the Holy Spirit coming down from heaven on the day of ",p:128,x:120,y:100,w:456,h:21},
{t:"Pentecost:",p:128,x:120,y:127,w:66,h:21},
{t:"When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one ",p:128,x:157,y:184,w:399,h:21},
{t:"place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came ",p:128,x:157,y:210,w:413,h:21},
{t:"from heaven and flled the whole house where they were sitting. ",p:128,x:157,y:237,w:410,h:21},
{t:"They saw what seemed to be tongues of fre that separated and ",p:128,x:157,y:264,w:409,h:21},
{t:"came to rest on each of them. All of them were flled with the ",p:128,x:157,y:290,w:393,h:21},
{t:"Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit ",p:128,x:157,y:317,w:389,h:21},
{t:"enabled them.—Acts 2:1–4 niv",p:128,x:157,y:344,w:198,h:21},
{t:"Without getting drawn into too much theology, I want to focus on the ",p:128,x:135,y:400,w:438,h:21},
{t:"simple words “as the Spirit enabled them.”  It’s these words that help ",p:128,x:120,y:427,w:454,h:21},
{t:"us understand how the disciples were transformed into world chang-",p:128,x:120,y:454,w:449,h:21},
{t:"ers. God’s presence was upon them, and He gave them the power and ",p:128,x:120,y:480,w:454,h:21},
{t:"the ability to carry out the Great Commission.",p:128,x:120,y:507,w:290,h:21},
{t:"Andrew preached in what we now call Bulgaria and Georgia and died ",p:128,x:135,y:534,w:438,h:21},
{t:"on a cross in a Greek colony. James the brother of John preached in ",p:128,x:120,y:560,w:455,h:21},
{t:"Judea and was beheaded, while John himself was exiled to the island of ",p:128,x:120,y:587,w:453,h:21},
{t:"Patmos and wrote his gospel. Tradition has it that Thaddeus preached ",p:128,x:120,y:614,w:454,h:21},
{t:"to all of Mesopotamia and was killed by arrows, and after writing his ",p:128,x:120,y:640,w:454,h:21},
{t:"gospel, Matthew was crucifed in Alexandria, and Simon the Zealot be-",p:128,x:120,y:667,w:450,h:21},
{t:"came the second bishop of Jerusalem. The frst bishop was James the ",p:128,x:120,y:694,w:454,h:21},
{t:"brother of Jesus, who was thrown from the temple roof and beaten to ",p:128,x:120,y:720,w:454,h:21},
{t:"death. Nathanael preached in India; Philip preached in Turkey, while ",p:128,x:120,y:747,w:455,h:21},
{t:"both Peter and Thomas ended up preaching to about fve signifcant ",p:128,x:120,y:774,w:455,h:21},
{t:"people groups each, before being killed for their faith.",p:128,x:120,y:801,w:344,h:21},
{t:"Now the endings of all those disciples may be quite frightening, but ",p:128,x:135,y:827,w:439,h:21},
{t:"the point is this: God never calls you to a task or a mission without ",p:128,x:120,y:854,w:455,h:21},
{t:"equipping you to carry it out. The Holy Spirit will enable you.",p:128,x:120,y:881,w:381,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   122",p:128,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:01 AM",p:128,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"123",p:129,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Just as the good news of Jesus didn’t end with Jesus, it also didn’t ",p:129,x:105,y:100,w:439,h:21},
{t:"end with the disciples. It carries on with us today—we are no less ",p:129,x:90,y:127,w:456,h:21},
{t:"charged with the Great Commission than were those frst followers of ",p:129,x:90,y:154,w:454,h:21},
{t:"Jesus. They weren’t simply spectators, and neither are we. We are called ",p:129,x:90,y:180,w:453,h:21},
{t:"to serve and to share and to bring light into a dark world. At times we ",p:129,x:90,y:207,w:454,h:21},
{t:"may feel daunted and ill equipped; often we will be tired and discour-",p:129,x:90,y:234,w:449,h:21},
{t:"aged; occasionally we may believe we have little to offer or have been ",p:129,x:90,y:260,w:454,h:21},
{t:"disqualifed from the task; but because the Holy Spirit enables us, we ",p:129,x:90,y:287,w:454,h:21},
{t:"can rely on the power of God and not on our own feelings or abilities.",p:129,x:90,y:314,w:437,h:21},
{t:"But when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, you will receive power ",p:129,x:105,y:370,w:430,h:21},
{t:"and will tell people about me everywhere—in Jerusalem, through-",p:129,x:105,y:397,w:422,h:21},
{t:"out Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.—Acts 1:8 nlt",p:129,x:105,y:424,w:420,h:21},
{t:"On one particular tour we were playing just outside Wash-",p:129,x:120,y:511,w:450,h:21},
{t:"ington, DC, and the band had an opportunity to go on a guided ",p:129,x:90,y:538,w:484,h:21},
{t:"tour of the White House. Unfortunately, because I was not a US ",p:129,x:90,y:565,w:484,h:21},
{t:"citizen and my details hadn’t been submitted well in advance, ",p:129,x:90,y:591,w:485,h:21},
{t:"I wasn’t able to enter the White House. The actual wording ",p:129,x:90,y:618,w:488,h:21},
{t:"of the explanation was that I was “an alien,” a foreigner in ",p:129,x:90,y:645,w:487,h:21},
{t:"a strange land, which immediately made me think of Third ",p:129,x:90,y:671,w:488,h:21},
{t:"Day’s song “Alien,” but also reminded me of the fact that I was ",p:129,x:90,y:698,w:484,h:21},
{t:"indeed many, many miles from my home. Sitting in a coffee ",p:129,x:90,y:725,w:487,h:21},
{t:"shop just around the corner from arguably the most famous ",p:129,x:90,y:751,w:487,h:21},
{t:"home in the world (after Buckingham Palace), I reflected on the ",p:129,x:90,y:778,w:484,h:21},
{t:"incredible privileges and opportunities that come with being ",p:129,x:90,y:805,w:487,h:21},
{t:"a touring Christian rock band and also on the sacrifices and ",p:129,x:90,y:831,w:487,h:21},
{t:"challenges that come with this, especially for those of us who ",p:129,x:90,y:858,w:486,h:21},
{t:"are married. ",p:129,x:90,y:885,w:97,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   123",p:129,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:02 AM",p:129,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"124",p:130,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:130,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"If I felt alien in Washington, DC, that day, the times when ",p:130,x:120,y:101,w:455,h:21},
{t:"I most need to call on the Holy Spirit’s power and presence are ",p:130,x:90,y:127,w:485,h:21},
{t:"on my journeys home to the UK. The twenty-four hours before ",p:130,x:90,y:154,w:485,h:21},
{t:"I am due to leave the band and head home are inevitably cha-",p:130,x:90,y:181,w:479,h:21},
{t:"otic with last-chance conversations, decisions, future planning, ",p:130,x:90,y:207,w:484,h:21},
{t:"and a quick dash to a hotel room or an airport. It’s often in this ",p:130,x:90,y:234,w:484,h:21},
{t:"process, when I’m physically and spiritually drained, that God ",p:130,x:90,y:261,w:485,h:21},
{t:"offers me divine opportunities to share with people about Je-",p:130,x:90,y:288,w:480,h:21},
{t:"sus. On an overnight flight back from Washington to London, I ",p:130,x:90,y:314,w:484,h:21},
{t:"had been upgraded to business class (a perk of frequent flying) ",p:130,x:90,y:341,w:485,h:21},
{t:"and was sitting next to an American lawyer who was flying ",p:130,x:90,y:368,w:487,h:21},
{t:"on to Iraq to help with the rebuilding of the Iraqi constitution. ",p:130,x:90,y:394,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Bill was a loud, larger-than-life, opinionated, heavy-drinking ",p:130,x:90,y:421,w:486,h:21},
{t:"character who, once he’d heard that I was a Christian, auto-",p:130,x:90,y:448,w:479,h:21},
{t:"matically assumed we were direct opposites and had nothing in ",p:130,x:90,y:474,w:484,h:21},
{t:"common. Eight hours later he had changed his opinion. Despite ",p:130,x:90,y:501,w:484,h:21},
{t:"desperately needing some sleep and feeling like I had nothing ",p:130,x:90,y:528,w:485,h:21},
{t:"much left to give after being on the road for five of the previous ",p:130,x:90,y:554,w:484,h:21},
{t:"seven weeks, I conversed with Bill for almost the whole flight; ",p:130,x:90,y:581,w:485,h:21},
{t:"and at one stage we were getting so excited and animated that ",p:130,x:90,y:608,w:485,h:21},
{t:"the passenger in the seat in front had to tell us to keep quiet. ",p:130,x:90,y:634,w:486,h:21},
{t:"A shared love of rock music, Bill’s time at an English univer-",p:130,x:90,y:661,w:479,h:21},
{t:"sity as a student, his fondness of many things British, and his ",p:130,x:90,y:688,w:485,h:21},
{t:"strong humanitarian conviction actually gave us many points ",p:130,x:90,y:714,w:485,h:21},
{t:"of reference; and I was able to be an effective spokesman both ",p:130,x:90,y:741,w:485,h:21},
{t:"for the good news of Jesus and for evangelical Christians. Bill ",p:130,x:90,y:768,w:485,h:21},
{t:"was both amused and amazed about the concept of Christian ",p:130,x:90,y:794,w:486,h:21},
{t:"rock music, so I made sure to send a copy of the Wherever You ",p:130,x:90,y:821,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Are CD to his office as soon as I was able.",p:130,x:90,y:848,w:323,h:21},
{t:"On another occasion I was traveling home from Nashville. ",p:130,x:120,y:874,w:455,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   124",p:130,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:02 AM",p:130,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"125",p:131,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Feels Like I'm a Million Miles Away",p:131,x:345,y:41,w:224,h:21},
{t:"I’d shared a room with David Carr for a night, and we’d talked ",p:131,x:90,y:101,w:485,h:21},
{t:"long into the early hours. Then there came tornado warnings, ",p:131,x:90,y:127,w:486,h:21},
{t:"and being in a room on the tenth floor of a hotel didn’t seem ",p:131,x:90,y:154,w:486,h:21},
{t:"like a great idea. When I eventually arrived at the airport on ",p:131,x:90,y:181,w:486,h:21},
{t:"the following day, almost inevitably my flight to Washington ",p:131,x:90,y:207,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Dulles was delayed. Tired, aching, and desperate to go home, ",p:131,x:90,y:234,w:486,h:21},
{t:"I opted for a back and shoulder massage while waiting for the ",p:131,x:90,y:261,w:485,h:21},
{t:"delayed flight when I spotted someone I knew in the massage ",p:131,x:90,y:288,w:486,h:21},
{t:"chair next to me. I had no energy or inclination to even lean ",p:131,x:90,y:314,w:486,h:21},
{t:"over and say hello. Besides, he looked like he was blissfully en-",p:131,x:90,y:341,w:479,h:21},
{t:"joying his massage, and I didn’t want to disturb his enjoyment. ",p:131,x:90,y:368,w:484,h:21},
{t:"Wandering down to the departure gate, I got myself into an ",p:131,x:90,y:394,w:487,h:21},
{t:"antisocial mode in readiness for the journey ahead, only to be ",p:131,x:90,y:421,w:485,h:21},
{t:"asked by a woman carrying about five bags if she’d missed the ",p:131,x:90,y:448,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Washington flight. When I told her it was delayed, she rushed ",p:131,x:90,y:474,w:485,h:21},
{t:"off to the smoking lounge. ",p:131,x:90,y:501,w:210,h:21},
{t:"Boarding the plane a couple of hours later, I was relieved ",p:131,x:120,y:528,w:456,h:21},
{t:"to see that it looked as though I had an empty seat next to ",p:131,x:90,y:554,w:487,h:21},
{t:"me—just what I needed to stretch out and snooze. The flight ",p:131,x:90,y:581,w:486,h:23},
{t:"attendant told us that they were waiting for one passenger and ",p:131,x:90,y:608,w:484,h:21},
{t:"then we’d be good to go. Now some of you may be ahead of me ",p:131,x:90,y:634,w:484,h:21},
{t:"in this story already. . . yes, you’ve guessed it; the passenger ",p:131,x:90,y:661,w:486,h:21},
{t:"we were waiting for was the woman who had gone off to the ",p:131,x:90,y:688,w:486,h:21},
{t:"smoking lounge. As she struggled down the aisle with the two ",p:131,x:90,y:714,w:485,h:21},
{t:"large bags she’d managed to bring on, I just knew where she’d ",p:131,x:90,y:741,w:485,h:21},
{t:"be heading—to the empty seat next to me, which I graciously ",p:131,x:90,y:767,w:485,h:23},
{t:"helped her into after stowing her bags in the overhead bins. ",p:131,x:90,y:794,w:487,h:21},
{t:"Now I had a choice ahead of me. Actually, I had a few op-",p:131,x:90,y:821,w:479,h:21},
{t:"tions: I could ignore her and get some sleep, I could engage in ",p:131,x:90,y:848,w:485,h:21},
{t:"some lighthearted chat as she was actually quite an attractive ",p:131,x:90,y:874,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   125",p:131,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:02 AM",p:131,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"126",p:132,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:132,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"person, or I could trust God and open up a more meaningful ",p:132,x:90,y:101,w:486,h:21},
{t:"dialogue. Fortunately, the Holy Spirit prompted me to do the ",p:132,x:90,y:127,w:486,h:21},
{t:"latter, and after exchanging some small talk and finding out ",p:132,x:90,y:154,w:487,h:21},
{t:"why we both had been in Nashville and where we were travel-",p:132,x:90,y:181,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ing to, the conversation took on a spiritual dimension. ",p:132,x:90,y:207,w:425,h:21},
{t:"The woman named Irene was half Norwegian and half ",p:132,x:120,y:234,w:459,h:21},
{t:"Greek and had parents who were involved with a Christian ",p:132,x:90,y:261,w:488,h:21},
{t:"relief agency working in the Middle East and Africa. Before too ",p:132,x:90,y:288,w:484,h:21},
{t:"long she confided in me that she didn’t believe she was good ",p:132,x:90,y:314,w:486,h:21},
{t:"enough to serve God in the way that her parents and I did, and ",p:132,x:90,y:341,w:484,h:21},
{t:"that in many ways she felt she was lost and without purpose ",p:132,x:90,y:368,w:486,h:21},
{t:"in life. In fact, if I were searching for someone to ask the opti-",p:132,x:90,y:394,w:480,h:21},
{t:"mum questions to begin talking about the good news of Jesus, ",p:132,x:90,y:421,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Irene was that person! I began to encourage her that God loves ",p:132,x:90,y:448,w:484,h:21},
{t:"lost people and told her the stories of the lost son and the lost ",p:132,x:90,y:474,w:485,h:21},
{t:"sheep. I explained that although she thought smoking, drink-",p:132,x:90,y:501,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ing, and other lifestyle issues meant she wasn’t good enough ",p:132,x:90,y:528,w:486,h:21},
{t:"for God, actually none of us were good enough for God and ",p:132,x:90,y:554,w:486,h:21},
{t:"that He judges us by the state of our heart, not just our outward ",p:132,x:90,y:581,w:484,h:21},
{t:"actions. I was able to describe to her how the death, resur-",p:132,x:90,y:608,w:479,h:21},
{t:"rection, and new life of Jesus had changed my own life and ",p:132,x:90,y:634,w:487,h:21},
{t:"given me forgiveness, faith, power, and purpose. Irene listened ",p:132,x:90,y:661,w:485,h:21},
{t:"intently and readily accepted my suggestion that I send her a ",p:132,x:90,y:688,w:486,h:21},
{t:"book to read. I’d thought that Purpose Driven Life by Rick War-",p:132,x:90,y:714,w:480,h:21},
{t:"ren would be a great help to her and promised to send it to her ",p:132,x:90,y:741,w:485,h:21},
{t:"if she e-mailed me her address. ",p:132,x:90,y:768,w:244,h:21},
{t:"As we prepared to depart from the plane at Washington ",p:132,x:120,y:794,w:457,h:21},
{t:"Dulles, two surprising things happened. First, the young guy ",p:132,x:90,y:821,w:487,h:21},
{t:"in the seat ahead of us waited to speak to me as we walked ",p:132,x:90,y:848,w:487,h:21},
{t:"off. He’d heard every word of our conversation and wanted to ",p:132,x:90,y:874,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   126",p:132,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:03 AM",p:132,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"127",p:133,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Feels Like I'm a Million Miles Away",p:133,x:345,y:41,w:224,h:21},
{t:"thank me for being so inspirational. He was a youth pastor re-",p:133,x:90,y:101,w:479,h:21},
{t:"turning from the very conference in Nashville where Third Day ",p:133,x:90,y:127,w:484,h:21},
{t:"had been performing and had never had the courage to witness ",p:133,x:90,y:154,w:484,h:21},
{t:"to someone on a plane. I was very humbled and imagined what ",p:133,x:90,y:181,w:484,h:21},
{t:"he would have been thinking if I’d just engaged Irene in small ",p:133,x:90,y:207,w:485,h:21},
{t:"talk for the whole flight or worse still had tried to mildly flirt ",p:133,x:90,y:234,w:486,h:21},
{t:"with her. Second, I realized that Purpose Driven Life was very ",p:133,x:90,y:261,w:485,h:21},
{t:"likely to be available in an airport bookshop, so I rushed off to ",p:133,x:90,y:288,w:485,h:21},
{t:"find a shop and the book. Thirty minutes later I was making ",p:133,x:90,y:314,w:486,h:21},
{t:"my way to the departure gate for the Munich flight because ",p:133,x:90,y:341,w:487,h:21},
{t:"Irene was flying there on her way to Athens. I’d arrived at the ",p:133,x:90,y:368,w:485,h:21},
{t:"gate before she did (remember she was carrying a load of bags), ",p:133,x:90,y:394,w:484,h:21},
{t:"and as she approached the gate, I was standing there nervous-",p:133,x:90,y:421,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ly clutching Purpose Driven Life in a brown paper bag. I ex-",p:133,x:90,y:448,w:479,h:21},
{t:"plained to her about buying the book, handed it over to her for ",p:133,x:90,y:474,w:484,h:21},
{t:"some reading on the flight to Munich, and asked her to e-mail ",p:133,x:90,y:501,w:485,h:21},
{t:"me with her observations about the book once she had read a ",p:133,x:90,y:528,w:485,h:21},
{t:"few chapters. Irene was overcome by the moment, amazed that ",p:133,x:90,y:554,w:484,h:21},
{t:"a complete stranger would buy her a book and search her out ",p:133,x:90,y:581,w:485,h:21},
{t:"at the airport in order to give it to her. With a tear in her eye ",p:133,x:90,y:608,w:486,h:21},
{t:"she hugged me, and we went our separate ways. A week or so ",p:133,x:90,y:634,w:485,h:21},
{t:"later I got an e-mail from Irene. In it she said this:",p:133,x:90,y:661,w:387,h:21},
{t:"I wish to thank you for the book and the effort you ",p:133,x:150,y:703,w:395,h:21},
{t:"made to give it to me! To me an experience like that ",p:133,x:120,y:729,w:427,h:21},
{t:"proves that there is a God! I guess God does these ac-",p:133,x:120,y:756,w:419,h:21},
{t:"tions to remind us that he is around! I have read four ",p:133,x:120,y:783,w:426,h:21},
{t:"chapters and I find it very peaceful and soothing for my ",p:133,x:120,y:810,w:424,h:21},
{t:"precious little soul!",p:133,x:120,y:836,w:147,h:21},
{t:"It’s likely Irene and my paths may never cross again, but I ",p:133,x:120,y:878,w:455,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   127",p:133,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:03 AM",p:133,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"128",p:134,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:134,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"firmly believe that on April 3, 2006, God brought us together ",p:134,x:90,y:101,w:486,h:21},
{t:"on that flight so that He could use me to share something of ",p:134,x:90,y:127,w:486,h:21},
{t:"the love and hope of Jesus with her. I’m so glad I rose above ",p:134,x:90,y:154,w:486,h:21},
{t:"tiredness and my self-centeredness and managed to be obedi-",p:134,x:90,y:181,w:480,h:21},
{t:"ent to the prompting of the Holy Spirit.",p:134,x:90,y:207,w:303,h:21},
{t:"Most times a Third Day tour will finish in Atlanta. Some-",p:134,x:120,y:234,w:450,h:21},
{t:"times I’m at the Atlanta show, and sometimes I’m not, depend-",p:134,x:90,y:261,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ing on my schedule and available flights. The Atlanta concert ",p:134,x:90,y:288,w:485,h:21},
{t:"is a homecoming for the guys, with family, friends, and mem-",p:134,x:90,y:314,w:480,h:21},
{t:"bers of their churches packing out the audience. It’s always a ",p:134,x:90,y:341,w:486,h:21},
{t:"highlight, but quite draining too—coming at the end of a tour. ",p:134,x:90,y:367,w:485,h:23},
{t:"Here’s a reflection from Mark Lee written in Alabama the day ",p:134,x:90,y:394,w:485,h:21},
{t:"before the last show of the Wherever You Are tour:",p:134,x:90,y:421,w:393,h:21},
{t:"Tai made a great point right afer the show tonight that this could have ",p:134,x:90,y:476,w:471,h:22},
{t:"been the best show we’ve ever had. Tink about it. If it was the ",p:134,x:133,y:503,w:422,h:22},
{t:"best show of this tour, and we’re all confdent that this is the ",p:134,x:153,y:530,w:398,h:22},
{t:"best tour we’ve ever done, then this was our best show ever. ",p:134,x:160,y:556,w:408,h:22},
{t:"All that is debatable, but let it be known that tonight was one ",p:134,x:160,y:583,w:410,h:22},
{t:"of those kinds of shows. Before I get to that, let me fll you in a ",p:134,x:155,y:609,w:413,h:23},
{t:"bit on what we’ve been up to today. ",p:134,x:136,y:636,w:247,h:22},
{t:"We had a long haul and didn’t get in until about ten this morning. We ",p:134,x:90,y:663,w:466,h:22},
{t:"watched some of the bonus footage from Slingblade on the bus. In case ",p:134,x:90,y:689,w:484,h:23},
{t:"you were wondering, that ’s one of our collective favorite movies. Ten ",p:134,x:90,y:716,w:473,h:22},
{t:"we did an extended interview with American Family Radio. Te afer-",p:134,x:90,y:743,w:459,h:22},
{t:"noon was spent watching the Iron Bowl. It was cool to be in the state of ",p:134,x:90,y:769,w:477,h:22},
{t:"Alabama to witness (on TV at least) one of the classic rivalries in college ",p:134,x:90,y:796,w:478,h:22},
{t:"football. It didn’t go Mac ’s way, but it was still cool. Ten we rehearsed ",p:134,x:90,y:823,w:468,h:22},
{t:"for the upcoming Tanksgiving event we were doing in Atlanta the next ",p:134,x:90,y:849,w:481,h:22},
{t:"week. ",p:134,x:90,y:876,w:42,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   128",p:134,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:03 AM",p:134,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"129",p:135,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Feels Like I'm a Million Miles Away",p:135,x:345,y:41,w:224,h:21},
{t:"Tat night we featured a slight change right at the beginning. We ",p:135,x:90,y:100,w:433,h:22},
{t:"opened with “’Til the Day I Die.” We weren’t expecting much of a ",p:135,x:90,y:127,w:435,h:22},
{t:"response—we were just doing it for us. But the crowd was way into it. ",p:135,x:90,y:153,w:467,h:23},
{t:"Tat let us know that this was a great crowd and that it was going to be ",p:135,x:90,y:180,w:474,h:22},
{t:"a special night. Tat feeling just seemed to grow with every song. By the ",p:135,x:90,y:207,w:480,h:22},
{t:"acoustic set, it was really happening, and by the end of the main set, it ",p:135,x:90,y:233,w:467,h:22},
{t:"was defnitely on.",p:135,x:90,y:260,w:114,h:22},
{t:"During the encore someone held up a sign for us to play “Rockstar . ” You ",p:135,x:90,y:287,w:480,h:22},
{t:"know the deal: if you hold up a sign, we might play your request. So we ",p:135,x:90,y:312,w:479,h:24},
{t:"played it. And it was amazing. Tank you, Alabama. I’ll be honest—we ",p:135,x:90,y:340,w:465,h:22},
{t:"were more than a litle surprised. When we saw this show on the list of ",p:135,x:90,y:367,w:472,h:22},
{t:"cities, we weren’t expecting much. But you guys showed up in a major ",p:135,x:90,y:394,w:468,h:22},
{t:"way. I don’t know why we expected any less. You guys are amazing. ",p:135,x:90,y:420,w:447,h:22},
{t:"Tomorrow marks the last day of the tour. It ’s a bitersweet feeling, and it ",p:135,x:90,y:447,w:477,h:22},
{t:"will be fun to fnish strong in our home city. But let me tell you, it will be ",p:135,x:90,y:474,w:475,h:22},
{t:"next to impossible to top tonight.",p:135,x:90,y:500,w:221,h:22},
{t:"Mark Lee, November 2006, Mobile., Alabama",p:135,x:256,y:526,w:313,h:23},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   129",p:135,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:03 AM",p:135,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"8",p:136,x:348,y:-45,w:222,h:600},
{t:"This Is the Body",p:136,x:202,y:479,w:367,h:43},
{t:"-Communion-",p:136,x:227,y:681,w:226,h:44},
{t:"this is the body ",p:136,x:246,y:746,w:201,h:40},
{t:"this is the blood",p:136,x:242,y:786,w:196,h:40},
{t:"Broken and poured out",p:136,x:200,y:826,w:281,h:40},
{t:"For all of us",p:136,x:264,y:866,w:152,h:40},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   131",p:136,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:04 AM",p:136,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"132",p:137,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:137,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"Changi International Airport in Singapore must be the best ",p:137,x:90,y:91,w:485,h:69},
{t:"airport in the world. It has a swimming pool, a golf course, ",p:137,x:123,y:127,w:451,h:21},
{t:"two hotels, a well-equipped gym, and hundreds of shops all ",p:137,x:90,y:154,w:487,h:21},
{t:"just in the transit area. It’s an airport most people visit on ",p:137,x:90,y:181,w:488,h:21},
{t:"their way to somewhere else, and here in January 2007 I’m no ",p:137,x:90,y:207,w:485,h:21},
{t:"different. I’m sitting in a departure lounge and waiting for a ",p:137,x:90,y:234,w:487,h:21},
{t:"flight to Melbourne in order to meet Third Day and their crew ",p:137,x:90,y:261,w:485,h:21},
{t:"for a series of concerts in Australia and New Zealand. It’s been ",p:137,x:90,y:288,w:485,h:21},
{t:"a mammoth journey for me, commencing by leaving home on ",p:137,x:90,y:314,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Saturday evening and eventually meeting the band on Tuesday ",p:137,x:90,y:341,w:484,h:21},
{t:"morning. We’ll be doing four concerts in six days, with travel ",p:137,x:90,y:368,w:485,h:21},
{t:"every day, so we’ll be tired but determined to serve the body of ",p:137,x:90,y:394,w:484,h:21},
{t:"believers in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and at the Parachute ",p:137,x:90,y:421,w:484,h:21},
{t:"Festival in New Zealand. When we toured Australia and New ",p:137,x:90,y:448,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Zealand two years ago, it was a special time with some memo-",p:137,x:90,y:474,w:479,h:21},
{t:"rable concerts, especially at Hillsong in Sydney. Now refreshed ",p:137,x:90,y:501,w:485,h:21},
{t:"after a stopover in Singapore, I’m ready for action. Even after ",p:137,x:90,y:528,w:485,h:21},
{t:"years of doing this, I’m still thrilled at the opportunity to min-",p:137,x:90,y:554,w:480,h:21},
{t:"ister alongside and to Third Day, to meet Christians from dif-",p:137,x:90,y:581,w:480,h:21},
{t:"ferent parts of the world, and to be reminded that the body of ",p:137,x:90,y:608,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Christ here on earth is immense. I take seriously the privilege ",p:137,x:90,y:634,w:486,h:21},
{t:"of my role as road pastor and place a high priority on “body ",p:137,x:90,y:661,w:486,h:21},
{t:"life”—interacting together as followers of Jesus.",p:137,x:90,y:687,w:370,h:23},
{t:"In the introduction to this book, I mentioned the two ques-",p:137,x:120,y:714,w:449,h:21},
{t:"tions everyone asks me when first finding out that I travel with ",p:137,x:90,y:741,w:484,h:21},
{t:"Third Day as their road pastor. The first question is, “How did ",p:137,x:90,y:768,w:486,h:21},
{t:"you get the job?” And the second question is, “Can I come and ",p:137,x:90,y:794,w:485,h:21},
{t:"carry your bags?” If people ask a third question it is most often, ",p:137,x:90,y:821,w:484,h:21},
{t:"“What exactly do you do as a road pastor?” It’s a great ques-",p:137,x:90,y:848,w:480,h:21},
{t:"tion and one I’ll attempt to answer now.",p:137,x:90,y:874,w:309,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   132",p:137,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:04 AM",p:137,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"133",p:138,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Tis Is the Body",p:138,x:466,y:41,w:103,h:21},
{t:"All of the guys in the band, and their families, are involved ",p:138,x:120,y:101,w:454,h:21},
{t:"in local churches back in the Atlanta area; and all of them ",p:138,x:90,y:127,w:488,h:21},
{t:"have close Christian friends and church leaders they look up ",p:138,x:90,y:154,w:487,h:21},
{t:"to. My role is simply to help the band, and sometimes the crew, ",p:138,x:90,y:181,w:484,h:21},
{t:"have church on the move as we travel from city to city across ",p:138,x:90,y:207,w:485,h:21},
{t:"America.",p:138,x:90,y:234,w:68,h:21},
{t:"-keeP on sHinin’-",p:138,x:180,y:293,w:289,h:52},
{t:"Despite all your tendencies, god sees ",p:138,x:101,y:368,w:465,h:40},
{t:"it differently ",p:138,x:242,y:404,w:186,h:40},
{t:"Your struggle’s a time to grow",p:138,x:138,y:447,w:382,h:40},
{t:"and you, you’re a miracle, anything ",p:138,x:109,y:488,w:456,h:40},
{t:"but typical",p:138,x:266,y:523,w:130,h:40},
{t:"it’s time for the whole wide world to ",p:138,x:104,y:554,w:471,h:54},
{t:"know",p:138,x:306,y:600,w:56,h:42},
{t:"When we frst started touring, it was a rare Sunday that we would be ",p:138,x:90,y:690,w:462,h:22},
{t:"able to atend our home churches. As we’ve atempted to bal-",p:138,x:90,y:717,w:416,h:22},
{t:"ance our home and road lives over the last couple of years, ",p:138,x:90,y:744,w:400,h:22},
{t:"we’ve made it a point not only to atend church whenever ",p:138,x:90,y:770,w:393,h:22},
{t:"we get the chance but also to be actively involved in what ’s ",p:138,x:90,y:797,w:400,h:22},
{t:"going on. If you ’ve been even remotely paying atention, it ’s ",p:138,x:90,y:824,w:401,h:22},
{t:"apparent that God has been doing some cool things through the ",p:138,x:90,y:851,w:438,h:22},
{t:"church over the last couple of years. Tis song is a song of encourage-",p:138,x:90,y:877,w:465,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   133",p:138,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:05 AM",p:138,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"134",p:139,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:139,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"ment to the church, both as a whole and to the average person siting in ",p:139,x:90,y:100,w:483,h:22},
{t:"the pew on Sunday morning. ",p:139,x:90,y:127,w:196,h:22},
{t:"Te frst verse focuses on the church at large. I recently read a book by ",p:139,x:90,y:153,w:474,h:22},
{t:"Hugh Hewit entitled Te Embarrassed Believer . In it he points out that ",p:139,x:90,y:180,w:472,h:23},
{t:"there are literally millions of people atending church in a given week ",p:139,x:90,y:207,w:462,h:22},
{t:"and that the culture should be feeling the efects of that. In the years ",p:139,x:90,y:233,w:457,h:22},
{t:"since the book was published, we’ve seen many brave souls look for ",p:139,x:90,y:260,w:458,h:22},
{t:"new ways to take the gospel beyond church boundaries. Tis is where ",p:139,x:90,y:287,w:471,h:22},
{t:"the “millions of voices singing new choruses” line comes into play. Yet ",p:139,x:90,y:314,w:458,h:22},
{t:"sometimes it ’s “easier said than done. ” Life happens. Tings don’t work ",p:139,x:90,y:340,w:464,h:22},
{t:"out as we planned. Like John Lennon said, “Life is what happens to you ",p:139,x:90,y:367,w:473,h:22},
{t:"while you’re making other plans. ” ",p:139,x:90,y:394,w:219,h:22},
{t:"It ’ s easy at times like these to beat ourselves up and throw in the towel. ",p:139,x:90,y:420,w:473,h:22},
{t:"But if we could see ourselves as God sees us, we’d know that we don’t ",p:139,x:90,y:447,w:471,h:22},
{t:"give ourselves nearly enough credit. In God’s eyes, we’re “a miracle, ",p:139,x:90,y:474,w:448,h:22},
{t:"anything but typical. ” Faith is a response to God’s love for us. When you ",p:139,x:90,y:500,w:477,h:22},
{t:"realize that He sees us in that light and loves us unconditionally, it makes ",p:139,x:90,y:527,w:478,h:22},
{t:"you want to “keep on shinin’” wherever you are or whatever you’re go-",p:139,x:90,y:554,w:472,h:22},
{t:"ing through.",p:139,x:90,y:580,w:79,h:22},
{t:"Mark Lee ",p:139,x:501,y:606,w:72,h:23},
{t:"The band prays together every night before a show, and ",p:139,x:120,y:650,w:457,h:21},
{t:"often we’ll spend some time in a Bible study or discuss a de-",p:139,x:90,y:677,w:479,h:21},
{t:"votional book we’ve been reading. Normally these studies are ",p:139,x:90,y:703,w:486,h:21},
{t:"in our dressing room or on the band tour bus, and most times ",p:139,x:90,y:730,w:485,h:21},
{t:"the only people present will be the guys you see on stage in ",p:139,x:90,y:757,w:486,h:21},
{t:"the band and me. Occasionally there might be others present—",p:139,x:90,y:783,w:480,h:23},
{t:"personal friends, management or record-company people, or ",p:139,x:90,y:810,w:487,h:21},
{t:"other musicians or baseball players from that locality. On one ",p:139,x:90,y:837,w:486,h:21},
{t:"memorable instance in Chicago on the LiveWire tour we wel-",p:139,x:90,y:863,w:479,h:21},
{t:"comed seven of the Atlanta Braves onto the bus for our Bible ",p:139,x:90,y:890,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   134",p:139,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:06 AM",p:139,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"135",p:140,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Tis Is the Body",p:140,x:466,y:41,w:103,h:21},
{t:"study and prayer time together.",p:140,x:90,y:101,w:241,h:21},
{t:"Often I will spend informal time with one or more of the ",p:140,x:120,y:127,w:456,h:21},
{t:"guys—in a mall or a coffee shop with Tai and David, at a ball ",p:140,x:90,y:154,w:485,h:23},
{t:"game with Mac and Mark, or on the golf course with Brad. I ",p:140,x:90,y:181,w:486,h:21},
{t:"can imagine you are already feeling great sympathy for me as ",p:140,x:90,y:207,w:485,h:21},
{t:"you read this! Seriously though, life on the road can be lonely ",p:140,x:90,y:234,w:485,h:21},
{t:"and days can be long, so quality friendship and uplifting con-",p:140,x:90,y:261,w:479,h:21},
{t:"versation can be very important. Here Brad tells us how he ",p:140,x:90,y:288,w:488,h:21},
{t:"maintains his devotional life on the road:",p:140,x:90,y:314,w:319,h:21},
{t:"Many of our fans ask how we keep focused on God out on the road. ",p:140,x:90,y:369,w:463,h:22},
{t:"I think there is an assumption that our time is consumed with ",p:140,x:90,y:396,w:402,h:22},
{t:"media, retail, fans, and sound checks. What most people ",p:140,x:90,y:423,w:376,h:22},
{t:"don’t know is that our lives on the road are very structured. ",p:140,x:90,y:450,w:398,h:22},
{t:"Tey have to be. We actually have tremendous amounts of ",p:140,x:90,y:476,w:397,h:22},
{t:"downtime that require activities and hobbies to help us en-",p:140,x:90,y:503,w:396,h:22},
{t:"dure. Schedules and consistency are important in all daily routines ",p:140,x:90,y:530,w:441,h:22},
{t:"to help maintain balance and sanity. With this in mind, it is almost easier ",p:140,x:90,y:556,w:473,h:22},
{t:"for us to keep our focus and atention on God on the road than at ",p:140,x:90,y:583,w:447,h:22},
{t:"home. Home life tends to have more distractions and surprises that take ",p:140,x:90,y:610,w:480,h:22},
{t:"away from a consistent routine and time in devotion. With wives, kids, ",p:140,x:90,y:636,w:463,h:22},
{t:"friends, e-mail trails, and “honey-do’s, ” time alone to press in to God can ",p:140,x:90,y:663,w:476,h:22},
{t:"be hard to fnd.",p:140,x:90,y:690,w:103,h:22},
{t:"We know we have a tremendous responsibility to God and His calling ",p:140,x:90,y:716,w:471,h:22},
{t:"in our lives. We also know we are accountable to each other, families, ",p:140,x:90,y:743,w:461,h:22},
{t:"friends, and fans to always pursue a growing and mature relationship ",p:140,x:90,y:770,w:457,h:22},
{t:"with the Creator . “To whom much is given, much is required.” We honor ",p:140,x:90,y:796,w:478,h:22},
{t:"that calling and want to continue to hear what God would have for our ",p:140,x:90,y:823,w:477,h:22},
{t:"lives, ministry, and career. ",p:140,x:90,y:850,w:168,h:22},
{t:"I tend to enjoy spending time alone with God frst thing in the morning ",p:140,x:90,y:876,w:476,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   135",p:140,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:06 AM",p:140,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"136",p:141,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:141,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"when I wake up. It seems to be the quietest time on the bus and helps ",p:141,x:90,y:100,w:472,h:22},
{t:"me focus my heart and mind before the day",p:141,x:90,y:127,w:294,h:22},
{t:"’",p:141,x:385,y:127,w:2,h:22},
{t:"s requirements commence. ",p:141,x:387,y:127,w:183,h:22},
{t:"I usually begin by welcoming God to be a part of my entire day and ",p:141,x:90,y:153,w:458,h:22},
{t:"worshiping Him. Ten I spend time reading Scripture and contemplat-",p:141,x:90,y:180,w:467,h:22},
{t:"ing what I’ve read. With God’s Spirit as my guide, I can work through ",p:141,x:90,y:207,w:455,h:22},
{t:"thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Finally, I spend time in prayer, confess-",p:141,x:90,y:234,w:470,h:22},
{t:"ing my sin, giving thanks for God’s abundant blessing and answers to ",p:141,x:90,y:260,w:456,h:22},
{t:"prayer, and interceding for family and friends.",p:141,x:90,y:287,w:300,h:22},
{t:"I am always blessed to be able to carve out time with God, and I know ",p:141,x:90,y:314,w:474,h:22},
{t:"that He joins me there in those quiet moments.",p:141,x:90,y:340,w:311,h:22},
{t:"Brad Avery, October 2006",p:141,x:381,y:374,w:188,h:23},
{t:"One of my main priorities on the road is to ensure that, if ",p:141,x:120,y:417,w:456,h:21},
{t:"we have a concert on a Sunday, we find time to have a short ",p:141,x:90,y:444,w:486,h:21},
{t:"church service together. It’s rarely possible because of traveling ",p:141,x:90,y:471,w:484,h:21},
{t:"and time constraints that we actually get to a local church on ",p:141,x:90,y:497,w:485,h:21},
{t:"the road, so normally we will share a Communion service for ",p:141,x:90,y:524,w:486,h:21},
{t:"band, crew, management, and local tour personnel sometime ",p:141,x:90,y:551,w:487,h:21},
{t:"on a Sunday afternoon. I have a very special memory of the ",p:141,x:90,y:577,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Communion service at a show on the Come Together and Wor-",p:141,x:90,y:604,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ship tour with Third Day, Michael W. Smith, and Max Lucado. ",p:141,x:90,y:631,w:485,h:21},
{t:"It was memorable for two reasons: first, because Max Lucado ",p:141,x:90,y:658,w:486,h:21},
{t:"was gracious enough to suggest that he and I share the tour ",p:141,x:90,y:684,w:487,h:21},
{t:"devotional responsibilities. The humility of that world-famous ",p:141,x:90,y:711,w:485,h:21},
{t:"author and speaker was amazing. He encouragingly sat in on ",p:141,x:90,y:738,w:486,h:21},
{t:"my devotions a couple of times a week, just as I enthusiasti-",p:141,x:90,y:764,w:480,h:21},
{t:"cally sat in on the ones he led for band and crew.",p:141,x:90,y:791,w:381,h:21},
{t:"The second reason was that when I was leading the Com-",p:141,x:120,y:818,w:449,h:21},
{t:"munion service we happened to be at West Point Military ",p:141,x:90,y:844,w:489,h:23},
{t:"Academy. The guys in Third Day gathered, with Michael and ",p:141,x:90,y:871,w:486,h:21},
{t:"his band, Max, and a number of officer cadets who had been ",p:141,x:90,y:898,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   136",p:141,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:06 AM",p:141,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"137",p:142,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Tis Is the Body",p:142,x:466,y:41,w:103,h:21},
{t:"assigned to help us during the day. As I prayed over the bread ",p:142,x:90,y:101,w:485,h:21},
{t:"and the Communion wine (actually it was grape juice borrowed ",p:142,x:90,y:127,w:484,h:21},
{t:"from catering!), I noticed two people rise gently from their ",p:142,x:90,y:154,w:488,h:21},
{t:"seats, position themselves on either side of me and get ready ",p:142,x:90,y:181,w:486,h:21},
{t:"to act as my Communion stewards and hand out the bread and ",p:142,x:90,y:207,w:484,h:21},
{t:"the wine. I looked up, and Michael W. Smith was to my right ",p:142,x:90,y:234,w:486,h:21},
{t:"and Max Lucado was to my left. Both quietly took the bread ",p:142,x:90,y:261,w:486,h:21},
{t:"and wine and began to serve assembled members of the tour. ",p:142,x:90,y:288,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Michael and Max are both legendary figures in modern Chris-",p:142,x:90,y:314,w:480,h:21},
{t:"tianity, but that day at West Point, their humility as members ",p:142,x:90,y:341,w:486,h:21},
{t:"of the body of Christ and their servant-hearted nature as fol-",p:142,x:90,y:368,w:480,h:21},
{t:"lowers of Jesus shone through.",p:142,x:90,y:394,w:237,h:21},
{t:"Two of the songs on the Wherever You Are CD were inspired by ",p:142,x:90,y:449,w:444,h:23},
{t:"the movie Te Passion of the Christ : “Communion” and “Carry ",p:142,x:90,y:475,w:413,h:23},
{t:"My Cross.” I wanted to have a song that served as a reminder ",p:142,x:90,y:503,w:409,h:22},
{t:"of the sacrifce Jesus had gone through and our need for that ",p:142,x:90,y:529,w:410,h:22},
{t:"sacrifce. Tat ’s where “Communion” came from. Musically, ",p:142,x:90,y:556,w:384,h:22},
{t:"we wanted to write this song as a tool for the church to use in ",p:142,x:90,y:583,w:414,h:22},
{t:"worship. It was meant to be a simple song (just one verse) that could ",p:142,x:90,y:609,w:460,h:22},
{t:"be used in churches, Bible studies, or cell groups with just a guitar or a ",p:142,x:90,y:636,w:468,h:22},
{t:"piano and a few chords or notes, so everyone could worship together. ",p:142,x:90,y:663,w:475,h:22},
{t:"Te song makes me think of the story in John 17 where Jesus was in ",p:142,x:90,y:689,w:449,h:22},
{t:"the garden before He was crucifed. He prayed to the Father to unite ",p:142,x:90,y:716,w:466,h:22},
{t:"His followers together and to Himself, just as He and His Father are ",p:142,x:90,y:743,w:448,h:22},
{t:"united. So, when we participate in Communion, we not only unite ",p:142,x:90,y:770,w:441,h:22},
{t:"with the Father, but also come together with our brothers and sisters in ",p:142,x:90,y:796,w:473,h:22},
{t:"communion.",p:142,x:90,y:823,w:81,h:22},
{t:"Mac Powell",p:142,x:487,y:849,w:82,h:23},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   137",p:142,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:06 AM",p:142,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"138",p:143,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:143,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"It’s good to bring yourself back to the cross and the resur-",p:143,x:120,y:101,w:449,h:21},
{t:"rection of Jesus time and time again. On the early part of the ",p:143,x:90,y:127,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Wherever You Are tour we studied what it meant to be people ",p:143,x:90,y:154,w:485,h:21},
{t:"of the cross. I shared a similar devotion at the Gomer Gathering ",p:143,x:90,y:181,w:484,h:21},
{t:"in Nashville in April 2006.",p:143,x:90,y:207,w:204,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   138",p:143,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:07 AM",p:143,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"139",p:144,x:544,y:944,w:25,h:21},
{t:"PEoPLE oF THE CRoSS",p:144,x:90,y:353,w:324,h:48},
{t:"One day when Jesus was alone praying, He called His disciples to ",p:144,x:105,y:431,w:440,h:21},
{t:"Him and asked them who they thought He was. Then He gave them this ",p:144,x:90,y:458,w:453,h:21},
{t:"warning: ",p:144,x:90,y:484,w:60,h:21},
{t:"“The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by ",p:144,x:105,y:541,w:391,h:21},
{t:"the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and he must ",p:144,x:105,y:568,w:397,h:21},
{t:"be killed and on the third day be raised to life.”",p:144,x:105,y:594,w:302,h:21},
{t:"Then he said to them all: “If anyone would come after me, ",p:144,x:120,y:621,w:373,h:21},
{t:"he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow ",p:144,x:105,y:648,w:387,h:21},
{t:"me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever ",p:144,x:105,y:674,w:402,h:21},
{t:"loses his life for me will save it.”—Luke 9:22–24 niv",p:144,x:105,y:701,w:334,h:21},
{t:"On a later occasion He said to the gathered crowd: ",p:144,x:105,y:758,w:326,h:21},
{t:"“And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me ",p:144,x:120,y:784,w:362,h:21},
{t:"cannot be my disciple.”—Luke 14:27 niv",p:144,x:105,y:811,w:258,h:21},
{t:"So if we are going to be people of the cross, what will we be like?",p:144,x:105,y:868,w:414,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   139",p:144,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:08 AM",p:144,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"140",p:145,x:90,y:944,w:25,h:21},
{t:"—A PERSoN oF DISTINCTIvENESS",p:145,x:120,y:100,w:244,h:24},
{t:"It must have been common in Israel to see condemned men carrying ",p:145,x:135,y:136,w:439,h:21},
{t:"their cross beams out of town to be crucifed along the roads; Jesus ",p:145,x:120,y:162,w:455,h:21},
{t:"worked in the timber trade, so he must have known all about crosses. ",p:145,x:120,y:189,w:454,h:21},
{t:"The man who carried a cross did so under condemnation. He had already ",p:145,x:120,y:216,w:452,h:21},
{t:"been found guilty; he was an outcast, an outsider. So perhaps Jesus is ",p:145,x:120,y:242,w:454,h:21},
{t:"saying that to follow Him we will have to stick out like sore thumbs, we ",p:145,x:120,y:269,w:453,h:21},
{t:"will have to be different from the crowd. But perhaps we don’t want to ",p:145,x:120,y:296,w:454,h:21},
{t:"be different; perhaps we’d rather not carry a cross; perhaps we’d rather ",p:145,x:120,y:322,w:453,h:21},
{t:"blend in than stick out. Yet following Jesus is going to be diffcult; we ",p:145,x:120,y:349,w:454,h:21},
{t:"might be ridiculed, made to look stupid carrying our cross. ",p:145,x:120,y:376,w:377,h:21},
{t:"I sometimes worry about the desire some Christians have to be so ",p:145,x:135,y:403,w:440,h:21},
{t:"culturally relevant that they are afraid to be different and aren’t willing ",p:145,x:120,y:429,w:453,h:21},
{t:"to stick out like a sore thumb on occasions. To have an impact on this ",p:145,x:120,y:456,w:454,h:21},
{t:"society we need to be relevant, but most of all we must be different and ",p:145,x:120,y:483,w:453,h:21},
{t:"accept all the hardships that being different might encompass. How ",p:145,x:120,y:509,w:455,h:21},
{t:"far are we prepared to merge with popular culture without beginning to ",p:145,x:120,y:536,w:453,h:21},
{t:"compromise our faith? Remember that Jesus, of course, was constantly ",p:145,x:120,y:563,w:453,h:21},
{t:"being criticized for getting too much into everyday life; however, he ",p:145,x:120,y:589,w:456,h:21},
{t:"was remembered and noted for being unrivaled, unparalleled, unprec-",p:145,x:120,y:616,w:450,h:21},
{t:"edented, and unique.",p:145,x:120,y:643,w:135,h:21},
{t:"Jesus talked about narrow gates and broad gates; His way was the ",p:145,x:135,y:669,w:439,h:21},
{t:"narrow one. He talked about camels going through the eye of a needle. ",p:145,x:120,y:696,w:454,h:21},
{t:"Many are called but few are chosen. Following Jesus as our leader is ",p:145,x:120,y:723,w:455,h:21},
{t:"going to be tough.",p:145,x:120,y:749,w:116,h:21},
{t:"—A PERSoN oF SACRIFICE",p:145,x:120,y:801,w:195,h:24},
{t:"The cross was often carried by rebel slaves; so when Jesus tells us ",p:145,x:135,y:837,w:440,h:21},
{t:"to carry our cross, He makes sure we understand the type of people we ",p:145,x:120,y:864,w:454,h:21},
{t:"must identify with: the weak, the poor, the oppressed, those who are ",p:145,x:120,y:891,w:455,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   140",p:145,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:08 AM",p:145,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"141",p:146,x:544,y:944,w:25,h:21},
{t:"fghting for freedom. As Christians we are called to make a difference ",p:146,x:90,y:100,w:454,h:21},
{t:"in this world and make our primary concern be for others and not for ",p:146,x:90,y:127,w:455,h:21},
{t:"ourselves. A Christianity that only talks about what we get out of it ",p:146,x:90,y:154,w:455,h:21},
{t:"ourselves is unbalanced. We must stand up for justice, peace, and love. ",p:146,x:90,y:180,w:453,h:21},
{t:"If we experience those things in our own lives because of the grace of ",p:146,x:90,y:207,w:454,h:21},
{t:"God, our response must be to go out to others who have been forced to ",p:146,x:90,y:234,w:454,h:21},
{t:"carry a cross, whatever it is.",p:146,x:90,y:260,w:180,h:21},
{t:"The apostle Paul was prepared to be “the scum of the earth, the re-",p:146,x:105,y:287,w:435,h:21},
{t:"fuse of the world” so that the gospel would be preached (1 Corinthians ",p:146,x:90,y:314,w:453,h:21},
{t:"4:13 niv). He was so compelled by the love of God that he didn’t care ",p:146,x:90,y:340,w:455,h:21},
{t:"if people thought he was mad or sane. If we live a Christian life with ",p:146,x:90,y:367,w:454,h:21},
{t:"the emphasis purely on what others think of us, with endless energy ",p:146,x:90,y:394,w:455,h:21},
{t:"and activity, we miss the point that a personal relationship, not public ",p:146,x:90,y:420,w:453,h:21},
{t:"usefulness to others, is central to the kingdom. ",p:146,x:90,y:447,w:305,h:21},
{t:"Oswald Chambers, the great Bible teacher",p:146,x:105,y:474,w:271,h:21},
{t:", preacher, and writer of the ",p:146,x:367,y:474,w:176,h:21},
{t:"early twentieth century , says this in his book My Utmost for His Highest",p:146,x:90,y:500,w:444,h:22},
{t:":",p:146,x:530,y:500,w:4,h:21},
{t:"It is one thing to follow God’s way of service if you are regarded ",p:146,x:127,y:557,w:406,h:21},
{t:"as a hero, but quite another thing if the road marked out for ",p:146,x:127,y:584,w:387,h:21},
{t:"you by God requires becoming a doormat under other people’s ",p:146,x:127,y:610,w:396,h:21},
{t:"feet. . . . Are you ready to be sacrifced like that? Are you ready ",p:146,x:127,y:637,w:400,h:21},
{t:"to be less than a mere drop in the bucket—to be so totally ",p:146,x:127,y:664,w:378,h:21},
{t:"insignifcant that no one remembers you even if they think of ",p:146,x:127,y:690,w:392,h:21},
{t:"those you served? Are you willing to give and be poured out until ",p:146,x:127,y:717,w:414,h:21},
{t:"you are used up and exhausted?",p:146,x:127,y:744,w:205,h:21},
{t:"By ignoring the invitation of Jesus to take up your cross, you ",p:146,x:127,y:771,w:386,h:21},
{t:"may become more prosperous and successful from the world’s ",p:146,x:127,y:797,w:400,h:21},
{t:"perspective, and you’ll have more leisure time and will be more ",p:146,x:127,y:824,w:407,h:21},
{t:"in control of your own life. But are you content with that, or are ",p:146,x:127,y:851,w:404,h:21},
{t:"you prepared to take up your cross? If you are ready to be a dis-",p:146,x:127,y:877,w:405,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   141",p:146,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:10 AM",p:146,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"142",p:147,x:90,y:944,w:25,h:21},
{t:"ciple and to sacrifce yourself, then you must be ready to accept ",p:147,x:157,y:100,w:411,h:21},
{t:"the consequences as they come, without complaints in spite of ",p:147,x:157,y:127,w:405,h:21},
{t:"what God might send your way. (Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1935)",p:147,x:157,y:154,w:409,h:21},
{t:"—A PERSoN oN A JoURNEY",p:147,x:120,y:221,w:196,h:24},
{t:"It’ s so important to remember that when we become Christians, it ",p:147,x:135,y:257,w:440,h:21},
{t:"is not the end of our journey of faith but rather just the start. Every ",p:147,x:120,y:284,w:455,h:21},
{t:"day should be an adventure; every day should bring a new challenge. ",p:147,x:120,y:310,w:454,h:21},
{t:"We should be constantly growing as we journey nearer to our eternal ",p:147,x:120,y:337,w:455,h:21},
{t:"destination with the Lord.",p:147,x:120,y:364,w:163,h:21},
{t:"Jesus says, “Come, follow me,” and that means going against the ",p:147,x:135,y:390,w:440,h:21},
{t:"fow. As the saying goes: Any old dead fsh can foat downstream, but it ",p:147,x:120,y:417,w:453,h:21},
{t:"needs life and determination to swim against the tide! We’ll be able to ",p:147,x:120,y:444,w:453,h:21},
{t:"discover God’s presence in the hardest times and in the most diffcult ",p:147,x:120,y:470,w:454,h:21},
{t:"places in life. We’ll carry our crosses daily as if each day were our last, ",p:147,x:120,y:497,w:453,h:21},
{t:"each day symbolizing death and new life.",p:147,x:120,y:524,w:263,h:21},
{t:"So taking up my cross means being exceptional in the ordinary things ",p:147,x:135,y:550,w:438,h:21},
{t:"of life and being holy on the ordinary streets, among ordinary people.",p:147,x:120,y:577,w:439,h:21},
{t:"—A PERSoN WITH A MESSAGE",p:147,x:120,y:629,w:216,h:24},
{t:"I know very well how foolish the message of the cross sounds to ",p:147,x:157,y:688,w:410,h:21},
{t:"those who are on the road to destruction. But we who are being ",p:147,x:157,y:714,w:407,h:21},
{t:"saved recognize this message as the very power of God. ",p:147,x:157,y:741,w:359,h:21},
{t:"—1 Corinthians 1:18 nlt",p:147,x:157,y:768,w:157,h:21},
{t:"The message of Jesus is, above all, good news! Yet so often Chris-",p:147,x:135,y:824,w:435,h:21},
{t:"tians sound as if we are bad news. We become known for all the things ",p:147,x:120,y:851,w:453,h:21},
{t:"we are against and all the issues we oppose. Instead, we should be ",p:147,x:120,y:878,w:455,h:21},
{t:"messengers of hope, forgiveness, and redemption. ",p:147,x:120,y:904,w:325,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   142",p:147,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:11 AM",p:147,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"143",p:148,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"—A PERSoN oF vICToRY",p:148,x:90,y:100,w:179,h:24},
{t:"The cross of shame and pain is also the cross of resurrection and the ",p:148,x:127,y:158,w:445,h:21},
{t:"cross of victory. The apostle Paul confrms this for us: “How we thank ",p:148,x:127,y:185,w:445,h:21},
{t:"God, who gives us victory over sin and death through Jesus Christ ",p:148,x:127,y:212,w:423,h:21},
{t:"our Lord!”—1 Corinthians 15:57 nlt",p:148,x:127,y:238,w:231,h:21},
{t:"And when we have carried our cross here on earth, we have a crown ",p:148,x:127,y:302,w:435,h:21},
{t:"waiting for us in heaven: “God blesses the people who patiently ",p:148,x:127,y:329,w:410,h:21},
{t:"endure testing. Afterward they will receive the crown of life that God ",p:148,x:127,y:356,w:438,h:21},
{t:"has promised to those who love him.”—James 1:12 nlt",p:148,x:127,y:382,w:351,h:21},
{t:"-CarrY mY Cross-",p:148,x:187,y:520,w:286,h:53},
{t:"so i’ll carry my cross",p:148,x:195,y:592,w:275,h:42},
{t:"and i’ll carry the shame",p:148,x:174,y:634,w:320,h:40},
{t:"to the end of the road",p:148,x:191,y:674,w:288,h:40},
{t:"through the struggle and pain",p:148,x:141,y:716,w:390,h:40},
{t:"and i’ll do it for love",p:148,x:196,y:754,w:284,h:40},
{t:"no, it won’t be in vain",p:148,x:197,y:794,w:284,h:40},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   143",p:148,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:13 AM",p:148,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"144",p:149,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:149,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"We all have crosses to carry. Maybe it ’s the guilt of sin. Maybe it ’s a loss ",p:149,x:90,y:100,w:472,h:22},
{t:"or temptation. Maybe it ’s a personal or emotional afiction. Te ",p:149,x:128,y:127,w:426,h:22},
{t:"weight of those burdens can keep us paralyzed. Jesus carries ",p:149,x:151,y:153,w:404,h:22},
{t:"them for us. But that ’s not all. Tough we will always have ",p:149,x:158,y:180,w:377,h:22},
{t:"struggles, God gives us not just another burden. God gives us ",p:149,x:158,y:207,w:413,h:22},
{t:"a yoke that is light. We can sign up with His kingdom and be ",p:149,x:155,y:234,w:403,h:22},
{t:"a part of the incredible tale of human history with a unique and ",p:149,x:138,y:260,w:426,h:22},
{t:"meaningful purpose.",p:149,x:90,y:287,w:136,h:22},
{t:"Tai Anderson, on the song “Carry My Cross”",p:149,x:269,y:320,w:300,h:23},
{t:"On a couple of occasions I’ve gone to church with Tai and ",p:149,x:120,y:364,w:455,h:21},
{t:"his family. The first time he suggested this was on the Satur-",p:149,x:90,y:391,w:479,h:21},
{t:"day night of the U2 show in Atlanta. Sunday morning my cell ",p:149,x:90,y:417,w:485,h:21},
{t:"phone rang at 8:45 am, and I was still in bed. Tai informed me ",p:149,x:90,y:444,w:485,h:22},
{t:"I had forty minutes or so to get showered, borrow a car from ",p:149,x:90,y:471,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Mac (I was staying with Mac), get directions to the Anderson ",p:149,x:90,y:497,w:486,h:21},
{t:"house, and head over for church. I managed it in time and went ",p:149,x:90,y:524,w:484,h:21},
{t:"along with Tai to Sunday school and then to the worship ser-",p:149,x:90,y:551,w:479,h:21},
{t:"vice. As we walked along a corridor in the church, we peeked ",p:149,x:90,y:577,w:486,h:21},
{t:"into the children’s session to see Tai’s wife acting in the drama. ",p:149,x:90,y:604,w:484,h:21},
{t:"Oftentimes Tai and I had engaged in conversations about the ",p:149,x:90,y:631,w:486,h:21},
{t:"local church, and he’s been willing to share his thoughts here:",p:149,x:90,y:657,w:478,h:21},
{t:"I’m writing a very diferent story here than I would have a year or two ",p:149,x:90,y:713,w:465,h:22},
{t:"ago. To be honest, I’ve never been all that involved in my local church. ",p:149,x:90,y:739,w:472,h:22},
{t:"In high school, I atended a youth group that had a signifcant ",p:149,x:141,y:766,w:409,h:22},
{t:"role in shaping my life. (My youth pastor also had a funda-",p:149,x:156,y:793,w:384,h:22},
{t:"mental role in me being in Tird Day.) But as an adult, church ",p:149,x:158,y:819,w:404,h:22},
{t:"has been more of an exercise of obligation rather than an ",p:149,x:158,y:846,w:385,h:22},
{t:"integral part of who I am. ",p:149,x:150,y:873,w:169,h:22},
{t:"When my wife and I were looking for a place to get married, we ",p:149,x:125,y:899,w:433,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   144",p:149,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:13 AM",p:149,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"145",p:150,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Tis Is the Body",p:150,x:466,y:41,w:103,h:21},
{t:"stumbled upon the church we now atend. Te church has a pitifully ",p:150,x:90,y:100,w:455,h:22},
{t:"unbeautiful sanctuary and would have been a terrible place to have ",p:150,x:90,y:127,w:457,h:22},
{t:"our wedding ceremony, but the secretary was really nice. You see, as ",p:150,x:90,y:153,w:460,h:22},
{t:"we were visiting diferent sanctuaries one week to fnd our wedding ",p:150,x:90,y:180,w:458,h:22},
{t:"chapel, we were told all about the diferent buildings, stained glass, ",p:150,x:90,y:207,w:448,h:22},
{t:"hardwood foors, and fower arrangements. But it was only at my current ",p:150,x:90,y:234,w:482,h:22},
{t:"church that anyone asked us about ourselves. Te secretary congratu-",p:150,x:90,y:260,w:463,h:22},
{t:"lated us on our engagement and invited us to Sunday services. So, we ",p:150,x:90,y:287,w:469,h:22},
{t:"came back. Ten another simple litle miracle happened. A couple ",p:150,x:90,y:314,w:446,h:22},
{t:"introduced themselves to us and invited us to a Sunday school class. We ",p:150,x:90,y:340,w:484,h:22},
{t:"had visited other churches where I felt guilty even taking up a parking ",p:150,x:90,y:367,w:465,h:22},
{t:"space, so it was nice to feel welcome. Tat day we met some of our ",p:150,x:90,y:394,w:453,h:22},
{t:"closest friends with whom we have now spent a good portion of our ",p:150,x:90,y:420,w:464,h:22},
{t:"lives. We began a process that has tied us in communal experiences ",p:150,x:90,y:447,w:453,h:22},
{t:"with a network of other families as we all are doing our best to raise our ",p:150,x:90,y:474,w:481,h:22},
{t:"kids together .",p:150,x:90,y:500,w:88,h:22},
{t:"Fast-forward eight years or so, and you won’t fnd me quite so glowing ",p:150,x:90,y:527,w:472,h:22},
{t:"about the whole operation. Tough we had a very tight circle in our ",p:150,x:90,y:554,w:458,h:22},
{t:"small communal group, Sunday services were leaving me feeling prety ",p:150,x:90,y:580,w:473,h:22},
{t:"fat. Like a lot of churches, my church was going through a pastoral ",p:150,x:90,y:607,w:439,h:22},
{t:"change. Tis would be the second one since we started atending, and ",p:150,x:90,y:634,w:477,h:22},
{t:"it was geting old. During this process, we would hear from any number ",p:150,x:90,y:660,w:476,h:22},
{t:"of speakers on any given Sunday. Now, as a baseline, I travel a lot! So, I ",p:150,x:90,y:687,w:469,h:22},
{t:"probably only make it to church about twenty times a year at most. Dur-",p:150,x:90,y:714,w:478,h:22},
{t:"ing those visits, I was beginning to feel as if I never heard from the same ",p:150,x:90,y:740,w:476,h:22},
{t:"pastor twice, and I was fnding it hard to connect. But all that was just the ",p:150,x:90,y:767,w:483,h:22},
{t:"surface of a major spiritual issue that was lurking underneath.",p:150,x:90,y:794,w:397,h:22},
{t:"I really didn’t value the local church. As a member of a successful Chris-",p:150,x:90,y:820,w:469,h:22},
{t:"tian band, doing the work of ministry myself, I had seen it all. We’d met ",p:150,x:90,y:847,w:470,h:22},
{t:"Billy Graham at a stadium crusade with ffy thousand atendees. I had ",p:150,x:90,y:874,w:461,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   145",p:150,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:13 AM",p:150,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"146",p:151,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:151,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"been “backstage” of almost every denomination in the country, and I’d ",p:151,x:90,y:100,w:470,h:22},
{t:"seen a good bit of the Christian experience in other parts of the world. ",p:151,x:90,y:127,w:478,h:22},
{t:"I felt above it all. I’m being honest here, so let criticism fy as it will. But at ",p:151,x:90,y:153,w:476,h:22},
{t:"the time, no one was being critical. I was in Tird Day! We toured with ",p:151,x:90,y:180,w:468,h:22},
{t:"Max Lucado; we had a pastor who traveled with us on the road; we ",p:151,x:90,y:207,w:455,h:22},
{t:"pray before every show; we’re always doing some sort of Bible study or ",p:151,x:90,y:234,w:483,h:22},
{t:"reading something together. Furthermore, I had already been to Africa ",p:151,x:90,y:260,w:472,h:22},
{t:"twice and was feeling the beginnings of a big draw toward the church’s ",p:151,x:90,y:287,w:475,h:22},
{t:"role as an advocate for social justice. I wasn’t hearing that on Sunday ",p:151,x:90,y:314,w:454,h:22},
{t:"morning. My church looked like another rich, white, suburban country ",p:151,x:90,y:340,w:466,h:22},
{t:"club. So, I began to check out. Church was something good for my wife ",p:151,x:90,y:367,w:477,h:22},
{t:"when I was on the road. Church was good for my kids. I paid my tithe ",p:151,x:90,y:394,w:464,h:22},
{t:"with all the enthusiasm I pay local sales tax, but emotionally and spiritu-",p:151,x:90,y:420,w:466,h:22},
{t:"ally I invested far less than even 10 percent.",p:151,x:90,y:447,w:288,h:22},
{t:"In the summer of 2005, a trip to the UK began to change all that. At the ",p:151,x:90,y:474,w:473,h:22},
{t:"end of our run through England, Wales, Ireland, and Northern Ireland, ",p:151,x:90,y:500,w:460,h:22},
{t:"we had a fnal show in Scotland. Tere we shared the stage with two ",p:151,x:90,y:527,w:453,h:22},
{t:"bands for which I have enormous respect: Delirious? and Newsboys. At ",p:151,x:90,y:554,w:474,h:22},
{t:"the hotel afer the show, I had a rare chance to hang out with some of ",p:151,x:90,y:580,w:461,h:22},
{t:"the guys in Delirious? and specifcally Martin Smith. (It was my birthday , ",p:151,x:90,y:607,w:466,h:22},
{t:"and at some point during the night a bagpipe player walked through the ",p:151,x:90,y:634,w:483,h:22},
{t:"lounge we were in and played “Happy Birthday , ” surely waking up every ",p:151,x:90,y:660,w:477,h:22},
{t:"guest in the hotel, but that ’s a diferent story!) As I was geting to know ",p:151,x:90,y:687,w:461,h:22},
{t:"Martin, who is, without a doubt, one of the most brilliant songwriters and ",p:151,x:90,y:714,w:481,h:22},
{t:"leaders of the modern worship movement, all of his conversation and all ",p:151,x:90,y:740,w:478,h:22},
{t:"of his enthusiasm kept coming back to his local church. Here was a guy ",p:151,x:90,y:767,w:463,h:22},
{t:"who had sung in stadiums, and he was most passionate about singing at ",p:151,x:90,y:794,w:471,h:22},
{t:"his church the following weekend. File that away .",p:151,x:90,y:820,w:314,h:22},
{t:"Ten, on the trip back to the US we were on the same fight as the ",p:151,x:90,y:847,w:446,h:22},
{t:"Newsboys. When we landed in Chicago, Mac and I ate lunch with ",p:151,x:90,y:874,w:444,h:22},
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{t:"3/21/08   8:22:13 AM",p:151,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"147",p:152,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Tis Is the Body",p:152,x:466,y:41,w:103,h:21},
{t:"Peter Furler. We’ve known Peter for years because we opened up for ",p:152,x:90,y:100,w:467,h:22},
{t:"the Newsboys on tour to support both of our frst two records. I’ve ",p:152,x:90,y:127,w:454,h:22},
{t:"always had immense respect for Peter as a shaper of our industry with ",p:152,x:90,y:153,w:467,h:22},
{t:"an incredible business mind and passion for music. But as we sat across ",p:152,x:90,y:180,w:472,h:22},
{t:"the table from him at Chili’s, all he could talk about was his local church, ",p:152,x:90,y:207,w:472,h:22},
{t:"its emphasis on missions, and his passion for this communal network of ",p:152,x:90,y:234,w:468,h:22},
{t:"believers. During our lunch, he directly and specifcally challenged me ",p:152,x:90,y:260,w:468,h:22},
{t:"to get more involved in my local church.",p:152,x:90,y:287,w:267,h:22},
{t:"About a week afer my return from the UK tour, I was to speak at a ",p:152,x:90,y:314,w:445,h:22},
{t:"men’s breakfast at my church. I’ve goten a litle more accustomed to it ",p:152,x:90,y:340,w:465,h:22},
{t:"over the years, but as a rule, dread speaking at these things. I’ve heard ",p:152,x:90,y:367,w:467,h:22},
{t:"some great speakers over the years, so I always feel horribly inadequate, ",p:152,x:90,y:394,w:483,h:22},
{t:"and then there’s the problem of actually having something to say. Well, ",p:152,x:90,y:420,w:471,h:22},
{t:"the upshot of speaking gigs is that they drive you to your knees. Tere ",p:152,x:90,y:447,w:470,h:22},
{t:"I was, locked in my study, Bible open, Internet search engine humming, ",p:152,x:90,y:474,w:470,h:22},
{t:"trying to think of something meaningful to say to this group of mostly ",p:152,x:90,y:500,w:459,h:22},
{t:"older men from my church who would come to hear me speak. I had ",p:152,x:90,y:527,w:463,h:22},
{t:"nothing, so I thought I’d give God a chance to pipe in.",p:152,x:90,y:554,w:359,h:22},
{t:"Over the course of that week, God slowly but deliberately convicted ",p:152,x:90,y:580,w:466,h:22},
{t:"me of the unbiblical and errant way I was living my life. Te breakdown ",p:152,x:90,y:607,w:474,h:22},
{t:"was simple. Like a bad spy movie, I was living a double life that God ",p:152,x:90,y:634,w:453,h:22},
{t:"(and my wife) could see right through. Tere was “Tird Day T ai,” and ",p:152,x:90,y:660,w:459,h:22},
{t:"then there was “Home T ai.” On the road, I was a Super Christian who ",p:152,x:90,y:687,w:458,h:22},
{t:"was passionate about Africa, commited to supporting youth ministry, ",p:152,x:90,y:714,w:462,h:22},
{t:"and a leader of worship. At home, I slid into the back of the service ",p:152,x:90,y:740,w:450,h:22},
{t:"and headed for the car as soon as I could grab the kids out of Sunday ",p:152,x:90,y:767,w:469,h:22},
{t:"school. I wasn’t talking to anyone about my experiences in Africa. I wasn’t ",p:152,x:90,y:794,w:483,h:22},
{t:"having any impact on the youth in my own community, and my only ad-",p:152,x:90,y:820,w:475,h:22},
{t:"dition to morning worship was that of a music critic. Who needs that?",p:152,x:90,y:847,w:461,h:22},
{t:"In frm rebuke, God was calling me toward adulthood, spiritual maturity, ",p:152,x:90,y:874,w:477,h:22},
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{t:"3/21/08   8:22:13 AM",p:152,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"148",p:153,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:153,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"and consistency. It was high time that I started being the same person ",p:153,x:90,y:100,w:462,h:22},
{t:"on the road and at home. It was time to stop criticizing the church and ",p:153,x:90,y:127,w:470,h:22},
{t:"start participating.",p:153,x:90,y:153,w:117,h:22},
{t:"My men’s breakfast talk ended up being much more of a confession and ",p:153,x:90,y:180,w:483,h:22},
{t:"invitation to the men of my church to hold me accountable as a fellow ",p:153,x:90,y:207,w:468,h:22},
{t:"man, not as some celebrity Christian. Last year, I had a discipleship ",p:153,x:90,y:234,w:440,h:22},
{t:"group of six high school seniors I did my best not to totally screw up ",p:153,x:90,y:260,w:457,h:22},
{t:"right before they headed of to college. I’ve also found some incred-",p:153,x:90,y:287,w:458,h:22},
{t:"ible core relationships, including one with the young adults pastor who ",p:153,x:90,y:314,w:475,h:22},
{t:"has also felt God’s calling to and passion for Africa. In addition, I have ",p:153,x:90,y:340,w:460,h:22},
{t:"a direct and meaningful relationship with our new pastor, who is one ",p:153,x:90,y:367,w:458,h:22},
{t:"of the few African American pastors on the north side of Atlanta and is ",p:153,x:90,y:394,w:473,h:22},
{t:"already impacting great change and movement toward beter diversity ",p:153,x:90,y:420,w:476,h:22},
{t:"in our congregation.",p:153,x:90,y:447,w:134,h:22},
{t:"I’m not at the end of this road. My church isn’t perfect, and neither is ",p:153,x:90,y:474,w:456,h:22},
{t:"yours. But I can honestly tell you that my church home is shaping and im-",p:153,x:90,y:500,w:478,h:22},
{t:"pacting me more now than I ever imagined possible. I’m excited about ",p:153,x:90,y:527,w:474,h:22},
{t:"a future not only where I receive sound teaching, but also where I hope ",p:153,x:90,y:554,w:483,h:22},
{t:"I am having an impact as part of a body of believers being perfected to ",p:153,x:90,y:580,w:482,h:22},
{t:"our ultimate role and calling as a beautiful bride—but with the callused ",p:153,x:90,y:607,w:476,h:22},
{t:"hands of a carpenter .",p:153,x:90,y:634,w:139,h:22},
{t:"Tai Anderson, October 2006",p:153,x:365,y:667,w:204,h:23},
{t:"One of the things I’ve learned about the Christian music ",p:153,x:120,y:711,w:457,h:21},
{t:"industry is that it is very difficult to be a part of it and really ",p:153,x:90,y:738,w:486,h:21},
{t:"flourish without being involved in a local church. You may be ",p:153,x:90,y:764,w:485,h:21},
{t:"able to get away with it for a year or two, an album or two, ",p:153,x:90,y:791,w:486,h:21},
{t:"a tour or two; but, ultimately, being in public ministry will ",p:153,x:90,y:818,w:488,h:21},
{t:"become too demanding, and your spiritual life will diminish, ",p:153,x:90,y:844,w:487,h:21},
{t:"without being plugged into local church. I firmly believe that ",p:153,x:90,y:871,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Third Day would never have lasted as long as they have with-",p:153,x:90,y:898,w:480,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   148",p:153,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:13 AM",p:153,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"149",p:154,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Tis Is the Body",p:154,x:466,y:41,w:103,h:21},
{t:"out a devotional focus on the road and a commitment to local ",p:154,x:90,y:101,w:485,h:21},
{t:"church when they are home. Both of these priorities don’t come ",p:154,x:90,y:127,w:484,h:21},
{t:"without some sacrifice and some discipline. ",p:154,x:90,y:154,w:339,h:21},
{t:"Mac often lets me stay with him and his family on short ",p:154,x:120,y:181,w:456,h:21},
{t:"breaks from touring. On one memorable occasion he invited ",p:154,x:90,y:207,w:487,h:21},
{t:"the pastors of his church to join us for an evening together. ",p:154,x:90,y:234,w:487,h:21},
{t:"The evening demonstrated that Mac values his church and his ",p:154,x:90,y:261,w:485,h:21},
{t:"pastors, and he was thrilled that I was able to meet them. I’ll let ",p:154,x:90,y:288,w:484,h:21},
{t:"Mac tell his “church” story:",p:154,x:90,y:314,w:210,h:21},
{t:"My family and I have been at our local church for the last seven years, ",p:154,x:90,y:369,w:464,h:22},
{t:"and we love it. If the hardest thing about touring is leaving family ",p:154,x:90,y:396,w:430,h:22},
{t:"behind, then I think the second hardest is being away from our ",p:154,x:90,y:423,w:420,h:22},
{t:"church. Tat ’s why we take people such as Nigel on tour with ",p:154,x:90,y:450,w:409,h:22},
{t:"us, so that we can have church on the road.",p:154,x:90,y:476,w:286,h:22},
{t:"I love my local church and the people there. In seasons when ",p:154,x:90,y:503,w:411,h:22},
{t:"Tird Day is at home or of the road, I really enjoy being part ",p:154,x:90,y:530,w:408,h:22},
{t:"of and contributing to the life of our church. Sometimes it ’s been ",p:154,x:90,y:556,w:433,h:22},
{t:"a challenge geting a houseful of children ready for church and taking ",p:154,x:90,y:583,w:463,h:22},
{t:"them into Sunday classes, especially if I’ve only just arrived home early ",p:154,x:90,y:610,w:465,h:22},
{t:"Sunday morning on the tour bus. Whenever we really take the time and ",p:154,x:90,y:636,w:482,h:22},
{t:"spend the energy going, it ’s always worth it, and we get something out ",p:154,x:90,y:663,w:473,h:22},
{t:"of being there. ",p:154,x:90,y:690,w:102,h:22},
{t:"Outside of the band, my closest friends are either people I met grow-",p:154,x:90,y:716,w:465,h:22},
{t:"ing up in church or people who go to the same church as we do now. ",p:154,x:90,y:743,w:472,h:22},
{t:"My wife has fve really close female friends; they all grew up together ",p:154,x:90,y:770,w:461,h:22},
{t:"in church and still enjoy that friendship. As a result, I ofen get together ",p:154,x:90,y:796,w:470,h:22},
{t:"with their husbands, who have become good friends to me.",p:154,x:90,y:823,w:398,h:22},
{t:"Mac Powell, November 2006",p:154,x:366,y:856,w:203,h:23},
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{t:"3/21/08   8:22:14 AM",p:154,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"150",p:155,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:155,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   150",p:155,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:14 AM",p:155,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"9",p:156,x:343,y:-45,w:222,h:600},
{t:"Lord of All Creation",p:156,x:87,y:479,w:482,h:43},
{t:"-goD oF wonDers-",p:156,x:177,y:644,w:296,h:56},
{t:"Lord of all creation ",p:156,x:201,y:720,w:268,h:40},
{t:"of water, earth, and sky",p:156,x:178,y:761,w:304,h:40},
{t:"the heavens are Your tabernacle",p:156,x:136,y:803,w:391,h:40},
{t:"glory to the Lord on high",p:156,x:167,y:842,w:332,h:40},
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{t:"3/21/08   8:22:15 AM",p:156,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"152",p:157,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:157,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"A lot of times we make the album, and then in hindsight we look back ",p:157,x:90,y:100,w:466,h:22},
{t:"and see what the common themes are. But with Wherever You ",p:157,x:140,y:126,w:422,h:23},
{t:"Are, things were diferent. We didn’t want to force an overall ",p:157,x:156,y:153,w:407,h:23},
{t:"theme, but without sounding too spiritual about it, I believe ",p:157,x:158,y:180,w:400,h:22},
{t:"that God was at work in the album development. Mark, Brad, ",p:157,x:158,y:207,w:408,h:22},
{t:"and I wrote songs separately; but as we came together and ",p:157,x:151,y:233,w:398,h:22},
{t:"shared the ideas in the studio, we noticed that almost all of the ",p:157,x:126,y:260,w:420,h:22},
{t:"songs had a common theme of hope through adversity. Normally we al-",p:157,x:90,y:287,w:479,h:22},
{t:"low what ’s in our hearts to come out in the lyrics, so it was obvious that ",p:157,x:90,y:314,w:473,h:22},
{t:"God had been planting the same feelings in us all.",p:157,x:90,y:340,w:331,h:22},
{t:"Mac Powell, November 2006",p:157,x:366,y:366,w:203,h:23},
{t:"Having listened to Christian music for well over twenty-",p:157,x:90,y:400,w:480,h:69},
{t:"five years, my observation is that Christian musicians are ",p:157,x:129,y:437,w:446,h:21},
{t:"not always as creative as they could be. There is much pres-",p:157,x:90,y:463,w:480,h:21},
{t:"sure to produce the Christian equivalent of what is successful ",p:157,x:90,y:490,w:486,h:21},
{t:"in the charts rather than pursuing originality; and Christian ",p:157,x:90,y:517,w:487,h:21},
{t:"lyrics, in an attempt to communicate the unchanging message ",p:157,x:90,y:543,w:485,h:21},
{t:"of the gospel, can come across as clichéd and jaded. However, ",p:157,x:90,y:570,w:485,h:21},
{t:"I believe that none of these criticisms can be leveled at Third ",p:157,x:90,y:597,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Day. While undoubtedly they have been influenced by oth-",p:157,x:90,y:623,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ers, I have long marveled at the distinctive and original style ",p:157,x:90,y:650,w:486,h:21},
{t:"of both the music and the lyrics the band has come up with ",p:157,x:90,y:677,w:487,h:21},
{t:"over the years. While some Christian artists chose to ride the ",p:157,x:90,y:703,w:486,h:21},
{t:"“worship explosion” with albums packed with covers of recent ",p:157,x:90,y:730,w:485,h:21},
{t:"popular worship songs, the guys of Third Day have chosen to ",p:157,x:90,y:757,w:486,h:21},
{t:"write fresh worship songs or cover existing but little-known ",p:157,x:90,y:783,w:487,h:21},
{t:"songs they felt deserved a wider hearing. This chapter will take ",p:157,x:90,y:810,w:484,h:21},
{t:"us behind the creative process and confirm that we worship a ",p:157,x:90,y:837,w:486,h:21},
{t:"creative God who gives us the talent to create for ourselves and ",p:157,x:90,y:863,w:484,h:21},
{t:"to bring Him glory.",p:157,x:90,y:890,w:147,h:21},
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{t:"3/21/08   8:22:15 AM",p:157,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"153",p:158,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Lord of All Creation",p:158,x:438,y:41,w:131,h:21},
{t:"You might think that a drummer would be the least in-",p:158,x:120,y:101,w:450,h:21},
{t:"volved in a band’s creative processes, but that isn’t necessar-",p:158,x:90,y:127,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ily true. Here’s David Carr’s view of how an album comes to-",p:158,x:90,y:154,w:480,h:21},
{t:"gether:",p:158,x:90,y:181,w:53,h:21},
{t:"Working on a new album is like a snowball efect. You start with very ",p:158,x:90,y:236,w:457,h:22},
{t:"litle, but you build on it and build on it. Someone brings a ",p:158,x:90,y:263,w:394,h:22},
{t:"rough idea for a song, someone else suggests a chorus, ",p:158,x:90,y:289,w:370,h:22},
{t:"someone else will throw in a guitar rif, and we build a song ",p:158,x:90,y:316,w:398,h:22},
{t:"from there. Fast-forward to a bookstore signing session, and ",p:158,x:90,y:343,w:398,h:22},
{t:"I’m holding a copy of the fnished album all packaged up! I ",p:158,x:90,y:369,w:394,h:22},
{t:"think, “How the heck did we get to this?” But we always do. If you ",p:158,x:90,y:396,w:436,h:22},
{t:"think about it, even the greatest albums of all time start with one or two ",p:158,x:90,y:423,w:477,h:22},
{t:"guys having an idea. We start with songwriting sessions when guys bring ",p:158,x:90,y:450,w:480,h:22},
{t:"lyrics to the rest of us, and we work out how we want to develop these ",p:158,x:90,y:476,w:477,h:22},
{t:"as songs and how we will record them. Ten we go into the studio, the ",p:158,x:90,y:503,w:475,h:22},
{t:"creative environment, and begin to lay down the songs. Perhaps in the ",p:158,x:90,y:530,w:472,h:22},
{t:"future, we might be bolder and go straight into the studio and create a ",p:158,x:90,y:556,w:475,h:22},
{t:"really tight and strong album but not spend so much time.",p:158,x:90,y:583,w:384,h:22},
{t:"When someone brings a song into the band, he always holds it loosely ",p:158,x:90,y:610,w:475,h:22},
{t:"and allows the rest of us to comment and make suggestions. I have ",p:158,x:90,y:636,w:444,h:22},
{t:"never taken a song into that situation, and for a while it bothered me. ",p:158,x:90,y:663,w:462,h:22},
{t:"I thought, “Okay, I’m going to be a songwriter , ” so I sat in my basement ",p:158,x:90,y:690,w:465,h:22},
{t:"with a guitar and the six chords I know and thought, “Mac can do this ",p:158,x:90,y:716,w:459,h:22},
{t:"with three chords, so I should be able to write a song!” Very soon I real-",p:158,x:90,y:743,w:477,h:22},
{t:"ized that my motivation wasn’t from wanting to write, but it was coming ",p:158,x:90,y:770,w:472,h:22},
{t:"from pride and from a desire for fnancial gain. I felt sleazy about trying ",p:158,x:90,y:796,w:473,h:22},
{t:"to write worshipful songs to God when what I was really seeing were ",p:158,x:90,y:823,w:461,h:22},
{t:"dollar signs.",p:158,x:90,y:850,w:76,h:22},
{t:"As far as drum parts go, when I hear a song, I’m immediately thinking ",p:158,x:90,y:876,w:456,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   153",p:158,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:15 AM",p:158,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"154",p:159,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:159,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"about that. Usually, I go with my frst instincts, my gut reaction to a song, ",p:159,x:90,y:100,w:474,h:22},
{t:"and develop my drum parts from there. Sometimes when we demo a ",p:159,x:90,y:127,w:468,h:22},
{t:"song, it sounds stronger and gritier than the fnished product.",p:159,x:90,y:153,w:411,h:22},
{t:"David Carr, November 2006",p:159,x:370,y:187,w:200,h:23},
{t:"When the finished product is eventually released, it’s defi-",p:159,x:120,y:231,w:449,h:21},
{t:"nitely a crucial time for the band. In many ways, it’s like the ",p:159,x:90,y:257,w:486,h:21},
{t:"birth of a new baby, so who better to describe the feelings that ",p:159,x:90,y:284,w:485,h:21},
{t:"surround a new album than Tai Anderson:",p:159,x:90,y:311,w:326,h:21},
{t:"Today is the day for which we’ve been waiting for nine months—it ’s the ",p:159,x:90,y:366,w:480,h:22},
{t:"launch of our new album Wherever You Are. As a father of fve, ",p:159,x:136,y:392,w:427,h:23},
{t:"I can certainly relate. A lot of anticipation can grow over nine ",p:159,x:155,y:419,w:407,h:22},
{t:"months. Even though we’ve been living with this album for a ",p:159,x:158,y:446,w:401,h:22},
{t:"few months now, if our fans don’t like it, well??? ",p:159,x:158,y:473,w:319,h:22},
{t:"It gets more difcult with more records. You ’d think it would ",p:159,x:153,y:499,w:400,h:22},
{t:"get easier. But it ’s almost as if the expectations grow for each ",p:159,x:133,y:526,w:401,h:22},
{t:"album. Early this summer, a pastor shared an old quote with us: “Expecta-",p:159,x:90,y:553,w:479,h:22},
{t:"tions are ofen premeditated resentments. ” I’m trying not to look at this ",p:159,x:90,y:579,w:469,h:22},
{t:"record that way. It would be easy for me to assign a number of sales ",p:159,x:90,y:606,w:454,h:22},
{t:"to this record as a signifer of success. However, I’m not going to do it. ",p:159,x:90,y:633,w:465,h:22},
{t:"Instead, I just feel anticipation, because I honestly think the success of ",p:159,x:90,y:659,w:458,h:22},
{t:"this record is going to be wrapped up in the individual lives that are ",p:159,x:90,y:686,w:457,h:22},
{t:"impacted by the message of hope it contains. ",p:159,x:90,y:713,w:306,h:22},
{t:"Being in Atlanta on the day the album released meant that my day ",p:159,x:90,y:739,w:442,h:22},
{t:"started with me dropping of my son at kindergarten. Ten, it was of ",p:159,x:90,y:766,w:459,h:22},
{t:"to meet a friend who had borrowed my Avalanche to pick up some ",p:159,x:90,y:793,w:458,h:22},
{t:"wood from Home Depot. About 9:45, I met my buddy at the only ",p:159,x:90,y:819,w:447,h:22},
{t:"place where people meet anymore: Starbucks. Ten I was of to Earth-",p:159,x:90,y:846,w:467,h:22},
{t:"link Live. I could have gone down earlier and been a part of the CNN ",p:159,x:90,y:873,w:471,h:22},
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{t:"3/21/08   8:22:15 AM",p:159,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"155",p:160,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Lord of All Creation",p:160,x:438,y:41,w:131,h:21},
{t:"interview, but lately I’ve had a serious case of foot-in-mouth disease. So ",p:160,x:90,y:100,w:475,h:22},
{t:"Mark graciously agreed to cover for me. I got to the venue at 10:15 ",p:160,x:90,y:127,w:454,h:22},
{t:"and began seting up my stuf and checking out our new lighting toys. ",p:160,x:90,y:153,w:465,h:22},
{t:"Tat kept me busy until noon when Mac and Mark returned from CNN ",p:160,x:90,y:180,w:481,h:22},
{t:"and we started a sound check. Tis was our frst live show with Scoty ",p:160,x:90,y:207,w:463,h:22},
{t:"Wilbanks. He’s played on all of our records except our frst two, so we ",p:160,x:90,y:234,w:470,h:22},
{t:"know him well. But live is always a diferent animal from in the studio. No ",p:160,x:90,y:260,w:481,h:23},
{t:"pressure though, it ’s just a packed house! Oh yeah, and two hundred ",p:160,x:90,y:287,w:463,h:22},
{t:"radio stations! Oh yeah, and that pesky Internet!",p:160,x:90,y:313,w:318,h:22},
{t:"Well, Scoty was prepared. I know comparisons and contrasts to Geof ",p:160,x:90,y:340,w:466,h:22},
{t:"will be inevitable. But, to me, it was just fresh. Tere’s always a diferent ",p:160,x:90,y:367,w:466,h:22},
{t:"feeling when you’re making music with diferent people. Tere’s a new ",p:160,x:90,y:394,w:470,h:22},
{t:"sense of excitement and even nervousness that make it new for every-",p:160,x:90,y:420,w:466,h:22},
{t:"one. We practiced all day! As I write this, my back is actually a bit sore ",p:160,x:90,y:447,w:466,h:22},
{t:"from wearing that heavy bass all day. We got the music to a good place. ",p:160,x:90,y:474,w:481,h:22},
{t:"It will always take us a few weeks to be totally dialed in. Afer rehearsal, ",p:160,x:90,y:500,w:471,h:22},
{t:"we had only an hour before the show. Tere were a lot of people to ",p:160,x:90,y:527,w:464,h:22},
{t:"meet: all the folks at Chevy who were making this event happen and all ",p:160,x:90,y:554,w:476,h:22},
{t:"the folks from the record company and management. Don McCollister, ",p:160,x:90,y:580,w:474,h:22},
{t:"who engineered the record, was in a separate studio at Earthlink Live ",p:160,x:90,y:607,w:462,h:22},
{t:"to mix for the broadcast. I was saying “hey” to some old friends, and my ",p:160,x:90,y:634,w:475,h:22},
{t:"wife called to tell me that she was on her way down.",p:160,x:90,y:660,w:347,h:22},
{t:"Last time we were at Earthlink Live, we played a sales conference for ",p:160,x:90,y:687,w:457,h:22},
{t:"Wire, and aferward, my wife backed up our Tahoe into a pole under-",p:160,x:90,y:713,w:468,h:23},
{t:"neath the building. So today she was forbidden to drive. I’m not sexist, ",p:160,x:90,y:740,w:469,h:22},
{t:"just practical. She came down with some friends. I’m always anxious to ",p:160,x:90,y:767,w:463,h:22},
{t:"make sure my wife and friends make it safely inside. With about twenty ",p:160,x:90,y:793,w:472,h:22},
{t:"minutes to spare, everyone had arrived. I went into the dressing room ",p:160,x:90,y:820,w:468,h:22},
{t:"to get ready, and there was Mac lying down on his back and saying ",p:160,x:90,y:847,w:450,h:22},
{t:"over and over again, “I don’t got it.” Tese rehearsal/show days are ",p:160,x:90,y:874,w:442,h:22},
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{t:"3/21/08   8:22:16 AM",p:160,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"156",p:161,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:161,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"prety hard on Mac ’s voice, and he was starting to feel that dreaded ",p:161,x:90,y:100,w:455,h:22},
{t:"sore throat, sinus, tired feeling. No bird fu though, so the show goes ",p:161,x:90,y:127,w:456,h:22},
{t:"on. We huddled up and prayed for the show. Te show was diferent ",p:161,x:90,y:153,w:467,h:22},
{t:"as the audience became more of a studio audience, and there were a ",p:161,x:90,y:180,w:469,h:22},
{t:"few weird pauses. But I was prety excited about the music. One song ",p:161,x:90,y:207,w:466,h:22},
{t:"in particular really did it for me, “I Can Feel It.” I actually hit a few wrong ",p:161,x:90,y:234,w:470,h:22},
{t:"notes at the end of the song, but I was going for it. Te song has a great ",p:161,x:90,y:260,w:480,h:22},
{t:"build and anticipation to it. ",p:161,x:90,y:287,w:182,h:22},
{t:"Afer the concert, I kissed my wife goodbye, shook some hands, and ",p:161,x:90,y:314,w:458,h:22},
{t:"signed some autographs. By “some” I mean several hundred people in a ",p:161,x:90,y:340,w:480,h:22},
{t:"long line. I was toast or “cream-crackered, ” as we like to say. (We learned ",p:161,x:90,y:367,w:478,h:22},
{t:"that one from Nigel.) I had a bad case of the yawns but was trying not ",p:161,x:90,y:394,w:466,h:22},
{t:"to be rude to all the folks who had been waiting in line. Afer it was ",p:161,x:90,y:420,w:450,h:22},
{t:"over and a couple of wrong turns later, Mac and I crashed in a hotel ",p:161,x:90,y:447,w:456,h:22},
{t:"room. We were doing morning radio, so there was no point in going ",p:161,x:90,y:474,w:461,h:22},
{t:"home just to turn around and come back downtown in the morning. ",p:161,x:90,y:500,w:459,h:22},
{t:"It would have taken thirty minutes to get home at night, but ninety ",p:161,x:90,y:527,w:443,h:22},
{t:"minutes to get back in the morning through Atlanta rush-hour trafc. We ",p:161,x:90,y:554,w:482,h:22},
{t:"got a lot more sleep staying downtown. It was a strange feeling to be in ",p:161,x:90,y:580,w:479,h:22},
{t:"Atlanta and not staying at home. All in all, it was a great day. We pulled ",p:161,x:90,y:607,w:470,h:22},
{t:"of the music. We were “on” for the fans, and our new album was on the ",p:161,x:90,y:634,w:478,h:22},
{t:"streets.",p:161,x:90,y:660,w:45,h:22},
{t:"Tai Anderson, November 1, 2005, Atlanta, Georgia",p:161,x:221,y:694,w:348,h:23},
{t:"You already know that on the road, one of the main gath-",p:161,x:120,y:738,w:449,h:21},
{t:"ering points offstage for the band is our devotional time to-",p:161,x:90,y:764,w:479,h:21},
{t:"gether. However, there is another fairly regular gathering time ",p:161,x:90,y:791,w:485,h:21},
{t:"when we get together to enjoy the creativity of other people. ",p:161,x:90,y:818,w:486,h:21},
{t:"We seldom think of it in those terms, and in reality, it’s more ",p:161,x:90,y:844,w:486,h:21},
{t:"about relaxation, but whenever we get the opportunity, most ",p:161,x:90,y:871,w:486,h:21},
{t:"of us will head off to a movie theater. Before going to bed on ",p:161,x:90,y:898,w:485,h:21},
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{t:"3/21/08   8:22:16 AM",p:161,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"157",p:162,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Lord of All Creation",p:162,x:438,y:41,w:131,h:21},
{t:"the bus, we may all watch an episode of the latest TV show or ",p:162,x:90,y:101,w:485,h:21},
{t:"laugh together at a sitcom DVD. We may even tune the satellite ",p:162,x:90,y:127,w:484,h:21},
{t:"to a music channel and watch a documentary or live concert ",p:162,x:90,y:154,w:486,h:21},
{t:"recording of a rock band.",p:162,x:90,y:181,w:195,h:21},
{t:"Whatever it is, we have learned to enjoy the creativity of ",p:162,x:120,y:207,w:456,h:21},
{t:"others—certainly not indiscriminately because we can spot a ",p:162,x:90,y:234,w:486,h:23},
{t:"“turkey” quicker than almost anyone! I’m constantly amazed ",p:162,x:90,y:261,w:487,h:21},
{t:"by how much inspiration the guys in the band get from seeing ",p:162,x:90,y:288,w:485,h:21},
{t:"the top-quality work of others. For my part, I’m able to bring ",p:162,x:90,y:314,w:486,h:21},
{t:"some new British comedy DVDs over with me, and I take great ",p:162,x:90,y:341,w:485,h:21},
{t:"pride in introducing them to anyone who cares to watch! ",p:162,x:90,y:368,w:446,h:21},
{t:"A few years ago a man named Peter Brind joined our Ignite ",p:162,x:120,y:394,w:454,h:21},
{t:"team in Cardiff. Peter had been a biology teacher for many ",p:162,x:90,y:421,w:488,h:21},
{t:"years but was also involved in leading a church in Cardiff. ",p:162,x:90,y:448,w:488,h:21},
{t:"His role with Ignite was to develop our Leadership Academy, ",p:162,x:90,y:474,w:486,h:21},
{t:"but, above all, he was a gifted Bible teacher. Being from a sci-",p:162,x:90,y:501,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ence background, Peter was especially passionate about the ",p:162,x:90,y:528,w:488,h:21},
{t:"creation story, so I asked him to sit down with me over a pe-",p:162,x:90,y:554,w:480,h:21},
{t:"riod of weeks and open up Genesis, chapter 1, for me in great ",p:162,x:90,y:581,w:485,h:21},
{t:"detail. Later on, when touring with Third Day, I used the basis ",p:162,x:90,y:608,w:485,h:21},
{t:"of Peter’s teaching to help us look at each of the six days of ",p:162,x:90,y:634,w:486,h:21},
{t:"creation during our devotions. Here’s a snapshot of some of ",p:162,x:90,y:661,w:487,h:21},
{t:"those devotionals.",p:162,x:90,y:688,w:138,h:21},
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{t:"3/21/08   8:22:16 AM",p:162,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"158",p:163,x:90,y:944,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Lord of All Creation",p:163,x:120,y:353,w:279,h:48},
{t:"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The ",p:163,x:157,y:461,w:391,h:21},
{t:"earth was empty, a formless mass cloaked in darkness. And the ",p:163,x:157,y:488,w:411,h:21},
{t:"Spirit of God was hovering over its surface. Then God said, “Let ",p:163,x:157,y:514,w:408,h:21},
{t:"there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that it was ",p:163,x:157,y:541,w:392,h:21},
{t:"good. Then he separated the light from the darkness. God called ",p:163,x:157,y:568,w:414,h:21},
{t:"the light “day” and the darkness “night.” Together these made ",p:163,x:157,y:594,w:406,h:21},
{t:"up one day.—Genesis 1:1–5 nlt",p:163,x:157,y:621,w:203,h:21},
{t:"Genesis chapter 1 is the frst chapter of the frst book, and right from ",p:163,x:135,y:678,w:438,h:21},
{t:"the start, it tells us what God is like. He is present from the very begin-",p:163,x:120,y:704,w:450,h:21},
{t:"ning; in fact He is there before the beginning. He is outside creation, ",p:163,x:120,y:731,w:454,h:21},
{t:"and He is eternal. We see in the very frst words of the Bible that God ",p:163,x:120,y:758,w:454,h:21},
{t:"is creative! He makes things, and He makes those things out of noth-",p:163,x:120,y:784,w:450,h:21},
{t:"ing! The Hebrew language also tells us that God can make things out ",p:163,x:120,y:811,w:454,h:21},
{t:"of stuff already there. When the words “made” and “created” are used ",p:163,x:120,y:838,w:454,h:21},
{t:"later on in Genesis 1, they mean something slightly different from the ",p:163,x:120,y:864,w:454,h:21},
{t:"“created out of nothing” in verse 1. Out of nothing God created the ",p:163,x:120,y:891,w:455,h:21},
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{t:"3/21/08   8:22:17 AM",p:163,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
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{t:"heavens and the earth. His raw material was empty and formless, and ",p:164,x:90,y:100,w:454,h:21},
{t:"then He went about shaping it. His Spirit “hovered” over the surface, ",p:164,x:90,y:127,w:454,h:21},
{t:"displaying God’s protection and care. On the fourth day of creation we ",p:164,x:90,y:154,w:454,h:21},
{t:"read a small phrase that is given almost as an afterthought: “He also ",p:164,x:90,y:180,w:454,h:21},
{t:"made the stars” (Genesis 1:16 nlt).",p:164,x:90,y:207,w:225,h:21},
{t:"Astronomers will be able to tell us just how much is packed into that ",p:164,x:105,y:234,w:438,h:21},
{t:"small phrase! It’s actually impossible to count the stars. If we could ",p:164,x:90,y:260,w:455,h:21},
{t:"count three million stars a second, it would still take us over ten million ",p:164,x:90,y:287,w:453,h:21},
{t:"years to count all the stars! That’s the enormity of creation carried in ",p:164,x:90,y:314,w:454,h:21},
{t:"the small phrase tucked away at the end of Genesis 1:16. ",p:164,x:90,y:340,w:371,h:21},
{t:"Throughout the Bible we see an emphasis on “new creation,” “new ",p:164,x:105,y:367,w:439,h:21},
{t:"thing,” and God being able to “make all things new.” He carries on with ",p:164,x:90,y:394,w:453,h:21},
{t:"His creativity for all time. During the creation story, we read about the ",p:164,x:90,y:420,w:454,h:21},
{t:"height of God’s creative process: ",p:164,x:90,y:447,w:211,h:21},
{t:"So God created people in his own image;  ",p:164,x:105,y:504,w:266,h:21},
{t:"God patterned them after himself;  ",p:164,x:105,y:530,w:226,h:21},
{t:"male and female he created them.—Genesis 1:27 nlt",p:164,x:105,y:557,w:341,h:21},
{t:"Being made in the image of God means that we inherit the creative ",p:164,x:105,y:614,w:439,h:21},
{t:"characteristic of the Lord of all creation. God meant us to be creative ",p:164,x:90,y:640,w:454,h:21},
{t:"too. Throughout God’s own creative process, He constantly stepped ",p:164,x:90,y:667,w:457,h:21},
{t:"back, took delight in what He had created, and saw that it was good. ",p:164,x:90,y:694,w:454,h:21},
{t:"When we pause to consider the signifcance of God creating human ",p:164,x:90,y:720,w:456,h:21},
{t:"beings, the following points jump out to us:",p:164,x:90,y:747,w:277,h:21},
{t:"We are on God’s agenda! We are important to Him.",p:164,x:156,y:789,w:321,h:21},
{t:"•	",p:164,x:126,y:788,w:13,h:23},
{t:"We read four times in verses 26 and 27 that God created us ",p:164,x:156,y:815,w:384,h:21},
{t:"•	",p:164,x:126,y:814,w:13,h:23},
{t:"in His image, so it must be especially important. We are the ",p:164,x:156,y:842,w:385,h:21},
{t:"visible representation of God on earth.",p:164,x:156,y:869,w:244,h:21},
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{t:"3/21/08   8:22:17 AM",p:164,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
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{t:"We have divine authority on earth. Ancient Roman coins carried ",p:165,x:156,y:100,w:408,h:21},
{t:"•	",p:165,x:126,y:99,w:13,h:23},
{t:"an image of Caesar on them, giving them authority as valid ",p:165,x:156,y:127,w:385,h:21},
{t:"currency. God’s image gives us authority, fully discovered in the ",p:165,x:156,y:154,w:409,h:21},
{t:"new covenant of Jesus Christ.",p:165,x:156,y:180,w:189,h:21},
{t:"We have been flled with the breath, the life, and the Spirit of ",p:165,x:156,y:207,w:393,h:21},
{t:"•	",p:165,x:126,y:206,w:13,h:23},
{t:"God.",p:165,x:156,y:234,w:28,h:21},
{t:"The very frst words God utters to man in Genesis 1:28 are commands ",p:165,x:105,y:275,w:470,h:21},
{t:"to be fruitful, to be in control of the living creatures on the earth. In other ",p:165,x:90,y:302,w:484,h:21},
{t:"words, He was saying, “Be creative.” So God’s creative spark is within us, ",p:165,x:90,y:329,w:484,h:21},
{t:"His command to us is to be creative, and it’s up to us to discover the God-",p:165,x:90,y:355,w:479,h:21},
{t:"given creativity within us and use it fruitfully.",p:165,x:90,y:382,w:291,h:21},
{t:"Being the main lyricist, more of the credit and the pressures for Third ",p:165,x:105,y:409,w:470,h:21},
{t:"Day’s creativity fall on Mac Powell. I’ve always been fascinated by the song-",p:165,x:90,y:435,w:480,h:21},
{t:"writing process, probably because I’ve never written one in my life. Mac ",p:165,x:90,y:462,w:486,h:21},
{t:"explains how he approaches writing a new song.",p:165,x:90,y:489,w:309,h:21},
{t:"It ’ s not easy for me to write songs. Even though I love to write, it doesn’t ",p:165,x:90,y:590,w:478,h:22},
{t:"come naturally to me; I have to work at it. Even now I hear songs ",p:165,x:140,y:617,w:430,h:22},
{t:"on the radio and think, “I wish I could have writen that!” I’m ",p:165,x:155,y:643,w:394,h:22},
{t:"proud of the songs I’ve writen, but I believe there is still ",p:165,x:158,y:670,w:376,h:22},
{t:"much more to come. Te fun part of being in a band is to ",p:165,x:158,y:697,w:388,h:22},
{t:"share ideas with each other, to bounce those ideas around, ",p:165,x:151,y:723,w:396,h:22},
{t:"to encourage each other with those ideas. What ’s not always so ",p:165,x:128,y:750,w:425,h:22},
{t:"fun is that you get the straight truth back when you share song ideas. ",p:165,x:90,y:777,w:456,h:22},
{t:"Someone will say it ’s not great. Tat ’s difcult to take, but it helps with ",p:165,x:90,y:803,w:461,h:22},
{t:"the process. Tere have been a few songs I’ve writen and thought were ",p:165,x:90,y:830,w:484,h:22},
{t:"good, but they didn’t make the grade with the rest of the band. Once ",p:165,x:90,y:857,w:468,h:22},
{t:"or twice other band members have come to me with a song that at frst ",p:165,x:90,y:883,w:479,h:22},
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{t:"3/21/08   8:22:18 AM",p:165,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"161",p:166,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Lord of All Creation",p:166,x:438,y:41,w:131,h:21},
{t:"I didn’t think was very good, but we’ve worked on it, and by the end ",p:166,x:90,y:100,w:461,h:22},
{t:"of the process, I can see that it ’s a great song. We’ve all had what we ",p:166,x:90,y:127,w:454,h:22},
{t:"thought were great ideas that didn’t pan out.",p:166,x:90,y:153,w:297,h:22},
{t:"We ofen get credit for our originality, but I’m not sure we are so origi-",p:166,x:90,y:180,w:469,h:22},
{t:"nal because most of the strong lyrical ideas we have are copied straight ",p:166,x:90,y:207,w:478,h:22},
{t:"from the Bible. I look to Scripture for lyrical inspiration, especially for ",p:166,x:90,y:234,w:455,h:22},
{t:"our worship songs. Ten as a band, we are creative with the music we ",p:166,x:90,y:260,w:467,h:22},
{t:"put around the lyrics. For example, for “My Hope Is You, ” I sat down and ",p:166,x:90,y:287,w:481,h:22},
{t:"read Psalm 25, thinking it would be a great idea for a song, and asking, ",p:166,x:90,y:314,w:469,h:22},
{t:"“How can I write down those words lyrically?” Tat ’s very typical of how ",p:166,x:90,y:340,w:481,h:22},
{t:"our song lyrics start. ",p:166,x:90,y:367,w:134,h:22},
{t:"To a certain degree, in the studio we all have a say in what goes on. For ",p:166,x:90,y:394,w:479,h:22},
{t:"example, because my guitar playing is limited, I can’t always demonstrate ",p:166,x:90,y:420,w:481,h:22},
{t:"or even explain where I want a song to go, so the other guys take hold ",p:166,x:90,y:447,w:473,h:22},
{t:"of it and take it to a beter place than I could have imagined. Ten there ",p:166,x:90,y:474,w:483,h:22},
{t:"are times when I hear someone else’s song and I have an idea where ",p:166,x:90,y:500,w:459,h:22},
{t:"it should go musically, so I throw that into the mix, and we discuss it. ",p:166,x:90,y:527,w:448,h:22},
{t:"Te process can be tiring and hard work, but it ’s also fun, and we really ",p:166,x:90,y:554,w:474,h:22},
{t:"enjoy it.",p:166,x:90,y:580,w:51,h:22},
{t:"Mac Powell, November 2006",p:166,x:366,y:606,w:203,h:23},
{t:"Mac isn’t the only songwriter in the band, however. He’s ",p:166,x:120,y:650,w:457,h:21},
{t:"taken us through the general process, so let’s allow Brad Avery ",p:166,x:90,y:677,w:484,h:21},
{t:"and Mark Lee to describe to us the thought processes about ",p:166,x:90,y:703,w:487,h:21},
{t:"some of the songs they have written.",p:166,x:90,y:730,w:283,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   161",p:166,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:18 AM",p:166,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"162",p:167,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:167,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"Sometimes we fnd ourselves fghting life’s batles with both arms tied ",p:167,x:90,y:446,w:461,h:22},
{t:"behind our backs. Yet determined not to back down, we trudge ",p:167,x:135,y:473,w:433,h:22},
{t:"on headfrst into war. We forget our enemy",p:167,x:153,y:500,w:288,h:22},
{t:"’",p:167,x:442,y:500,w:2,h:22},
{t:"s weakness; and ",p:167,x:443,y:500,w:108,h:22},
{t:"we batle on foot, on his turf, and by his rules. Eventually we ",p:167,x:158,y:526,w:399,h:22},
{t:"are driven to our knees and unable to pull ourselves up. God ",p:167,x:158,y:553,w:414,h:22},
{t:"never intended it to be this way. He created us to soar like ",p:167,x:151,y:580,w:393,h:22},
{t:"eagles. Why? Eagles fy higher than their enemies and build their ",p:167,x:131,y:607,w:432,h:22},
{t:"nests far out of the reach of their predators. Eagles are equipped with ",p:167,x:90,y:633,w:467,h:22},
{t:"two sets of eyelids, one of which functions like sunglasses. When being ",p:167,x:90,y:660,w:473,h:22},
{t:"chased by their enemy, they fy straight into the direction of the sun, ",p:167,x:90,y:687,w:453,h:22},
{t:"blinding their predator. When being pursued by our opponent, we ",p:167,x:90,y:713,w:458,h:22},
{t:"too should soar higher, straight toward the Son. I love how melancholy ",p:167,x:90,y:740,w:471,h:22},
{t:"the song begins, with a mood and texture like the theme of M*A*S*H* ",p:167,x:90,y:766,w:474,h:23},
{t:". It leaves the listener searching and wondering before busting wide ",p:167,x:90,y:793,w:454,h:22},
{t:"open with hope and renewed energy. Tis song has an infectious ",p:167,x:90,y:820,w:439,h:22},
{t:"groove, compliments of T ai’s ferocious bass pulse. Don’t be afraid to ",p:167,x:90,y:846,w:455,h:22},
{t:"turn up the subwoofer .",p:167,x:90,y:873,w:153,h:22},
{t:"Brad Avery",p:167,x:488,y:907,w:81,h:23},
{t:"-eagLes-",p:167,x:255,y:124,w:147,h:52},
{t:"i will soar on the wings of eagles",p:167,x:119,y:205,w:426,h:40},
{t:"i will learn to fly high above this ",p:167,x:120,y:245,w:444,h:40},
{t:"world",p:167,x:302,y:274,w:70,h:40},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   162",p:167,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:19 AM",p:167,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"163",p:168,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Lord of All Creation",p:168,x:438,y:41,w:131,h:21},
{t:"-i Can FeeL it-",p:168,x:198,y:94,w:262,h:44},
{t:"i seek the silence through the chaos ",p:168,x:107,y:159,w:459,h:40},
{t:"and the noise",p:168,x:247,y:199,w:165,h:40},
{t:"that’s when i’m listening; i want to ",p:168,x:95,y:239,w:484,h:40},
{t:"hear Your voice",p:168,x:242,y:279,w:175,h:40},
{t:"sometimes it softly speaks, a whisper ",p:168,x:105,y:319,w:463,h:40},
{t:"on the wind",p:168,x:253,y:359,w:152,h:40},
{t:"sometimes it’s louder when Your spir-",p:168,x:95,y:399,w:469,h:40},
{t:"it rushes in",p:168,x:259,y:439,w:140,h:40},
{t:"Song ideas can come from all kinds of diferent places. Some of my fa-",p:168,x:90,y:526,w:463,h:22},
{t:"vorites have been those that have been sparked by conversation. ",p:168,x:90,y:552,w:440,h:22},
{t:"Te idea for “I Can Feel It” came from a conversation I was ",p:168,x:90,y:579,w:389,h:22},
{t:"having with some friends about the Holy Spirit. One of them ",p:168,x:90,y:606,w:407,h:22},
{t:"was sharing about how he’s seen the Spirit show up in dif-",p:168,x:90,y:632,w:383,h:22},
{t:"ferent ways at diferent times. Tis was one of those concepts ",p:168,x:90,y:659,w:409,h:22},
{t:"that didn’t quite make sense to me at frst, but on thinking about ",p:168,x:90,y:686,w:428,h:22},
{t:"it, it had to make sense. Tis song refects my desire to be sensitive to ",p:168,x:90,y:713,w:463,h:22},
{t:"the Holy Spirit to the point that I can both feel Him showing up and ",p:168,x:90,y:739,w:456,h:22},
{t:"also sense how He’s showing up. I look forward to playing this one live ",p:168,x:90,y:766,w:471,h:22},
{t:"because it can serve as a cool invocation for the Holy Spirit to come ",p:168,x:90,y:793,w:459,h:22},
{t:"down and be a part of our show. ",p:168,x:90,y:819,w:226,h:22},
{t:"It ’ s interesting that an old-school Pentecostal song like “I Can Feel It” can ",p:168,x:90,y:846,w:475,h:22},
{t:"appear on the same record as a more liturgical song like “Communion. ” ",p:168,x:90,y:873,w:473,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   163",p:168,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:20 AM",p:168,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"164",p:169,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:169,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"Tis goes along with the message of unity we’ve been talking about ",p:169,x:90,y:100,w:452,h:22},
{t:"since the Come Together days. We come from diferent denomina-",p:169,x:90,y:126,w:451,h:23},
{t:"tional backgrounds and traditions. Rather than bicker about those difer-",p:169,x:90,y:153,w:478,h:22},
{t:"ences, we can learn from each other and be the body of Christ we are ",p:169,x:90,y:180,w:474,h:22},
{t:"called to be. Musically, this song reminds me of something we would ",p:169,x:90,y:207,w:459,h:22},
{t:"have done ten years ago. It ’s kind of cool to get to the point where you ",p:169,x:90,y:233,w:479,h:22},
{t:"can rip yourself of.",p:169,x:90,y:260,w:126,h:22},
{t:"Mark Lee",p:169,x:501,y:294,w:68,h:23},
{t:"-sHow me Your gLorY-",p:169,x:140,y:361,w:367,h:59},
{t:"i caught a glimpse of Your splendor",p:169,x:102,y:442,w:450,h:40},
{t:"in the corner of my eye",p:169,x:172,y:479,w:313,h:40},
{t:"the most beautiful thing i",p:169,x:97,y:511,w:319,h:52},
{t:"’ve ever seen",p:169,x:414,y:503,w:149,h:46},
{t:"and it was like a flash of lightning",p:169,x:104,y:562,w:456,h:40},
{t:"reflected off the sky",p:169,x:202,y:598,w:263,h:40},
{t:"and i know i’ll never be the same",p:169,x:112,y:642,w:447,h:40},
{t:"For a few years I had wanted to write a song about the transfgura-",p:169,x:90,y:724,w:441,h:22},
{t:"tion. Jesus had been going along with His disciples, healing ",p:169,x:138,y:750,w:392,h:22},
{t:"people, and in the middle of all that you have Him going up ",p:169,x:155,y:777,w:405,h:22},
{t:"a mountain with Peter, James, and John. Elijah is there, Moses ",p:169,x:160,y:804,w:398,h:22},
{t:"is there, and God is there. It ’s a big thing that ’s happening! In ",p:169,x:160,y:830,w:403,h:22},
{t:"Peter ’s second leter he describes how this event gave him the ",p:169,x:153,y:857,w:418,h:22},
{t:"encouragement to go on and do what he did—that ’s so cool.",p:169,x:131,y:884,w:410,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   164",p:169,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:22 AM",p:169,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"165",p:170,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Lord of All Creation",p:170,x:438,y:41,w:131,h:21},
{t:"We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you ",p:170,x:120,y:100,w:418,h:22},
{t:"about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but ",p:170,x:120,y:127,w:392,h:22},
{t:"we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received honor ",p:170,x:120,y:153,w:402,h:22},
{t:"and glory from God the Father when the voice came to him ",p:170,x:120,y:180,w:403,h:22},
{t:"from the Majestic Glory, saying, “Tis is my Son, whom I love; ",p:170,x:120,y:207,w:404,h:22},
{t:"with him I am well pleased.” We ourselves heard this voice ",p:170,x:120,y:234,w:388,h:22},
{t:"that came from heaven when we were with him on the sacred ",p:170,x:120,y:260,w:415,h:22},
{t:"mountain.—2 Peter 1:16–18 niv",p:170,x:120,y:287,w:214,h:22},
{t:"I wanted to talk about the glory of God and the splendor of God. I had ",p:170,x:90,y:321,w:481,h:22},
{t:"the verses of the song worked out but couldn’t ft in the chorus. Ten I ",p:170,x:90,y:348,w:472,h:22},
{t:"found another great thing in the Bible when the notes in the margin sent ",p:170,x:90,y:374,w:483,h:22},
{t:"me to Exodus where Moses had a similar mountaintop experience. It ’s ",p:170,x:90,y:401,w:467,h:22},
{t:"the spot where God is laying out His plans for Moses and Moses says, ",p:170,x:90,y:428,w:468,h:22},
{t:"“Show me your glory” (Exodus 33:18 niv).",p:170,x:90,y:454,w:276,h:22},
{t:"God says to Moses that He won’t be able to let him see His face, but ",p:170,x:90,y:481,w:463,h:22},
{t:"that He will let His glory pass by. So Moses sees God in all His glory and ",p:170,x:90,y:508,w:483,h:22},
{t:"splendor. Tat must have changed his life completely. All of us Chris-",p:170,x:90,y:534,w:454,h:22},
{t:"tians have experienced that in a small way when Jesus comes into our ",p:170,x:90,y:561,w:461,h:22},
{t:"lives, just like He did with the apostle Paul. We meet God, and in that ",p:170,x:90,y:588,w:460,h:22},
{t:"one instant we see God in His splendor, and He completely transforms ",p:170,x:90,y:614,w:476,h:22},
{t:"the rest of our lives. We then want to live our lives for Him and not for ",p:170,x:90,y:641,w:470,h:22},
{t:"ourselves. ",p:170,x:90,y:668,w:68,h:22},
{t:"Tere is a cool line in the second verse that talks about coming back ",p:170,x:90,y:694,w:457,h:22},
{t:"down the mountain and not setling for ordinary things. Tat idea was ",p:170,x:90,y:721,w:466,h:22},
{t:"inspired by my uncle, an evangelist who was just back from a missionary ",p:170,x:90,y:748,w:477,h:22},
{t:"trip to India. While he was there, he saw a group of missionaries seting ",p:170,x:90,y:775,w:474,h:22},
{t:"out on foot to China. He asked someone near him when the missionar-",p:170,x:90,y:801,w:472,h:22},
{t:"ies would be coming back. He replied, “What are you talking about? ",p:170,x:90,y:828,w:462,h:22},
{t:"Tey’re not going to come back. Tey are missionaries, and they are ",p:170,x:90,y:855,w:456,h:22},
{t:"going to die in China as missionaries.” When my uncle returned to his ",p:170,x:90,y:881,w:462,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   165",p:170,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:22 AM",p:170,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"166",p:171,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:171,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"regular meetings in Atlanta, he thought to himself, “Tis is silly! I can’t do ",p:171,x:90,y:100,w:474,h:22},
{t:"these meetings afer seeing what I’ve seen.” We have experiences when ",p:171,x:90,y:127,w:478,h:22},
{t:"we see God at work in our lives or in the lives of others, and we don’t ",p:171,x:90,y:153,w:469,h:22},
{t:"want to setle for the regular things in life anymore. We want to seek ",p:171,x:90,y:180,w:455,h:22},
{t:"afer the things of God for the rest of our lives.",p:171,x:90,y:207,w:308,h:22},
{t:"It ’ s great to write a song that says so many diferent things. On one level ",p:171,x:90,y:234,w:477,h:22},
{t:"it ’ s personal—I had that experience when I came to know Jesus—but ",p:171,x:90,y:260,w:462,h:22},
{t:"it ’ s also about Peter and Moses and partly inspired by my uncle. It ’s ",p:171,x:90,y:287,w:447,h:22},
{t:"about all these things, yet it makes sense. Te second verse talks about ",p:171,x:90,y:314,w:470,h:22},
{t:"coming down the mountain, but until then you don’t realize that it ’s set ",p:171,x:90,y:340,w:471,h:22},
{t:"on a mountain. I just joted down a load of ideas for the song that I had ",p:171,x:90,y:367,w:477,h:22},
{t:"collected over a long period and didn’t really know what I was going to ",p:171,x:90,y:394,w:481,h:22},
{t:"do with them. A couple of days later it all came together when I wrote it ",p:171,x:90,y:420,w:483,h:22},
{t:"out. In one way, it took an hour to write, and in another way, it took two ",p:171,x:90,y:447,w:478,h:22},
{t:"years. ",p:171,x:90,y:474,w:40,h:22},
{t:"When I was writing it, I thought that even if it ’s just for me, I’m cool with ",p:171,x:90,y:500,w:471,h:22},
{t:"that, but I played it to the other guys, and they liked it, so it went on the ",p:171,x:90,y:527,w:479,h:22},
{t:"record. At the time I was actually trying to write rock songs because we ",p:171,x:90,y:554,w:476,h:22},
{t:"had done most of the Time album and needed one or two rock songs ",p:171,x:90,y:580,w:477,h:23},
{t:"for it. I played a few rock song ideas to the band before I played “Show ",p:171,x:90,y:607,w:480,h:22},
{t:"Me Your Glory,” but when everyone liked it, we recorded it. ",p:171,x:90,y:633,w:404,h:22},
{t:"It features in our set as a transition between the rocks songs and the ",p:171,x:90,y:660,w:454,h:22},
{t:"worship songs, and by singing it, we are saying, “Tonight we want You ",p:171,x:90,y:687,w:465,h:22},
{t:"to be here, Lord. We can’t go on unless You are present. ” It ’s our cry to ",p:171,x:90,y:714,w:472,h:22},
{t:"Jesus, saying we want to include Him completely in all His glory. Te frst ",p:171,x:90,y:740,w:480,h:22},
{t:"time we played it live there was a big tough security guy in front of the ",p:171,x:90,y:767,w:473,h:22},
{t:"stage who was supposed to be keeping the crowd in line. He was sing-",p:171,x:90,y:794,w:474,h:22},
{t:"ing along and crying. I almost started crying myself—I really wasn’t ready ",p:171,x:90,y:820,w:482,h:22},
{t:"for it to afect someone like that! It was so humbling to see God use a ",p:171,x:90,y:847,w:466,h:22},
{t:"song in that way.",p:171,x:90,y:874,w:108,h:22},
{t:"Mark Lee",p:171,x:501,y:907,w:68,h:23},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   166",p:171,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:22 AM",p:171,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"167",p:172,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Lord of All Creation",p:172,x:438,y:41,w:131,h:21},
{t:"-rise uP-",p:172,x:249,y:134,w:155,h:49},
{t:"so rise up, my friend",p:172,x:194,y:205,w:268,h:40},
{t:"no, this will never be the end",p:172,x:137,y:247,w:385,h:40},
{t:"so rise up, my friend",p:172,x:197,y:285,w:268,h:40},
{t:"and live again",p:172,x:241,y:323,w:183,h:40},
{t:"A couple of years ago, God started doing something in my life that lef ",p:172,x:90,y:460,w:473,h:22},
{t:"a permanent mark on my heart. In litle more than a twelve-",p:172,x:90,y:486,w:393,h:22},
{t:"month span, I grieved the loss of both of my grandfathers ",p:172,x:90,y:513,w:384,h:22},
{t:"and one of my aunts. Also, during this time, my pastor lost his ",p:172,x:90,y:540,w:406,h:22},
{t:"father. I watched my parents wrestle through the memories ",p:172,x:90,y:566,w:392,h:22},
{t:"and pain of the abuse they sufered as children and the abuse ",p:172,x:90,y:593,w:417,h:22},
{t:"they sufered while ministering in the church for over twenty ",p:172,x:90,y:620,w:404,h:22},
{t:"years. I had friends around me struggling through divorce, addictions, ",p:172,x:90,y:647,w:463,h:22},
{t:"and fnancial woes. God was opening my eyes to the turmoil and hard-",p:172,x:90,y:673,w:471,h:22},
{t:"ships of His children.",p:172,x:90,y:700,w:136,h:22},
{t:"I wanted to write a song that not only encouraged my loved ones and ",p:172,x:90,y:727,w:472,h:22},
{t:"friends, but also was therapeutic for my own condition. As I was read-",p:172,x:90,y:753,w:461,h:22},
{t:"ing the Gospels one day, I came upon the story of Lazarus. He was a ",p:172,x:90,y:780,w:457,h:22},
{t:"close friend of Jesus and the brother of Mary and Martha, and he had ",p:172,x:90,y:807,w:468,h:22},
{t:"tragically died. Te Scriptures say Jesus wept when He saw him. Mary, ",p:172,x:90,y:833,w:464,h:22},
{t:"Martha, and their friends were distraught. Tey had seen Jesus perform ",p:172,x:90,y:860,w:475,h:22},
{t:"amazing miracles, ofen seeing Him completely heal those who had the ",p:172,x:90,y:887,w:475,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   167",p:172,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:23 AM",p:172,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"168",p:173,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:173,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"same infrmities their brother Lazarus eventually succumbed to. Jesus, ",p:173,x:90,y:100,w:458,h:22},
{t:"knowing He wanted to bring glory to God, had waited until afer La-",p:173,x:90,y:127,w:456,h:22},
{t:"zarus’s death to come and heal him. He knew the impact it would make ",p:173,x:90,y:153,w:475,h:22},
{t:"on the world as people realized that the Messiah had power over life ",p:173,x:90,y:180,w:468,h:22},
{t:"and death.",p:173,x:90,y:207,w:70,h:22},
{t:"I needed that power in my life. I wanted that power for my family and ",p:173,x:90,y:234,w:468,h:22},
{t:"friends. We longed to be brought back to life from the depths of our ",p:173,x:90,y:260,w:465,h:22},
{t:"grief and despair .",p:173,x:90,y:287,w:115,h:22},
{t:"I tried to approach the lyrics as if Christ were speaking to the listener ",p:173,x:90,y:314,w:460,h:22},
{t:"personally; I could think of nothing more endearing than to be referred ",p:173,x:90,y:340,w:479,h:22},
{t:"to as a “friend of Jesus, ” just as Lazarus was described in Scripture. I imag-",p:173,x:90,y:367,w:476,h:22},
{t:"ined that what I was enduring emotionally was similar to what Christ and ",p:173,x:90,y:394,w:481,h:22},
{t:"Lazarus’s family must have felt that day. It was comforting to know that ",p:173,x:90,y:420,w:459,h:22},
{t:"I was not alone; Christ was there with me in my struggle and pain. I want-",p:173,x:90,y:447,w:480,h:22},
{t:"ed the listener to feel this same comfort. As I worked through the song’s ",p:173,x:90,y:474,w:480,h:22},
{t:"verses, I was reminded of the passage proclaiming that “nothing can ",p:173,x:90,y:500,w:451,h:22},
{t:"separate us from the love of God.” My dark cloud was suddenly pierced ",p:173,x:90,y:527,w:484,h:22},
{t:"with a new ray of hope. Tis wasn’t the end. Te One who conquered ",p:173,x:90,y:554,w:472,h:22},
{t:"death and was all-powerful over everything this world could dish out ",p:173,x:90,y:580,w:465,h:22},
{t:"was at my side. He was calling me to “rise up” and “come forth, ” to press ",p:173,x:90,y:607,w:474,h:22},
{t:"on and live again with the hope of eternity as my fuel for forging ahead. ",p:173,x:90,y:634,w:480,h:22},
{t:"Christ is calling all of His friends who are burdened with heartache and ",p:173,x:90,y:660,w:474,h:22},
{t:"bound by addiction to crawl out of the depths of despair, set our eyes ",p:173,x:90,y:687,w:476,h:22},
{t:"on things eternal, and carry on with the comfort, peace, and expectant ",p:173,x:90,y:714,w:471,h:22},
{t:"hope of a blessed life ahead.",p:173,x:90,y:740,w:192,h:22},
{t:"Brad Avery",p:173,x:488,y:774,w:81,h:23},
{t:"I don’t know about you, but I’ve listened to many songs for ",p:173,x:120,y:818,w:454,h:21},
{t:"years and years without discovering the meaning of the song ",p:173,x:90,y:844,w:486,h:21},
{t:"or the reason the song was written. So to have some of my fa-",p:173,x:90,y:871,w:479,h:21},
{t:"vorite Third Day songs unpacked by the writers themselves has ",p:173,x:90,y:898,w:484,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   168",p:173,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:23 AM",p:173,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"169",p:174,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Lord of All Creation",p:174,x:438,y:41,w:131,h:21},
{t:"been a real blessing. Understanding the motives of Mac, Brad, ",p:174,x:90,y:101,w:485,h:21},
{t:"and Mark means whenever I listen to these songs now, I am ",p:174,x:90,y:127,w:487,h:21},
{t:"ministered to at a whole new level. I hope that it is the same ",p:174,x:90,y:154,w:486,h:21},
{t:"for you after you’ve read about these songs.",p:174,x:90,y:181,w:338,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   169",p:174,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:23 AM",p:174,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"10",p:175,x:153,y:-45,w:444,h:600},
{t:"May Your Wonders ",p:175,x:18,y:466,w:565,h:54},
{t:"Never Cease",p:175,x:230,y:512,w:339,h:54},
{t:"-maY Your wonDers never Cease-",p:175,x:87,y:594,w:504,h:57},
{t:"may Your wonders never cease",p:175,x:156,y:670,w:371,h:40},
{t:"may Your spirit never leave",p:175,x:166,y:709,w:352,h:40},
{t:"may we ever long to see Your face",p:175,x:129,y:750,w:429,h:40},
{t:"when we’ve turned from You again",p:175,x:130,y:790,w:429,h:40},
{t:"oh how quickly we forget",p:175,x:191,y:829,w:309,h:40},
{t:"may we be reminded of Your grace",p:175,x:124,y:871,w:445,h:40},
{t:"may Your wonders never cease",p:175,x:162,y:910,w:371,h:40},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   171",p:175,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:24 AM",p:175,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"172",p:176,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:176,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"I used to say there were three people I’d love to meet. Billy Graham ",p:176,x:90,y:100,w:456,h:22},
{t:"was one, and we met him when we played a Billy Graham cru-",p:176,x:141,y:127,w:413,h:22},
{t:"sade. I’ve always wanted to meet a president, and in 2004 we ",p:176,x:156,y:153,w:414,h:22},
{t:"met George W. Bush when we played at a rally and he came ",p:176,x:160,y:180,w:407,h:22},
{t:"backstage and spoke to us for fve minutes or so. He knew ",p:176,x:160,y:207,w:391,h:22},
{t:"who we were, and we had a good conversation. Te third ",p:176,x:151,y:234,w:392,h:22},
{t:"person, or rather people, I’ve always wanted to meet was U2. We ",p:176,x:126,y:260,w:441,h:22},
{t:"got to meet Bono; that was very cool.",p:176,x:90,y:287,w:248,h:22},
{t:"Sometimes I wake up early in the morning and refect about my life in ",p:176,x:90,y:314,w:465,h:22},
{t:"Tird Day—all the experiences and opportunities we have had, all the ",p:176,x:90,y:340,w:471,h:22},
{t:"people we have met, all the great musicians we have worked with in the ",p:176,x:90,y:367,w:483,h:22},
{t:"studio, all the pinnacle moments of our career—and I think to myself, ",p:176,x:90,y:394,w:460,h:22},
{t:"“ What more could I want?” It ’s always a convicting moment and makes ",p:176,x:90,y:420,w:468,h:22},
{t:"me determined to show my thankfulness more and express it to God ",p:176,x:90,y:447,w:461,h:22},
{t:"more frequently. Everything we’ve wanted, we have dreamed of, has ",p:176,x:90,y:474,w:458,h:22},
{t:"come true! I don’t know why, but I thank God for it!",p:176,x:90,y:500,w:343,h:22},
{t:"David Carr, November 2006",p:176,x:370,y:526,w:200,h:23},
{t:"Los Angeles International Airport, January 2005: I am ",p:176,x:120,y:570,w:460,h:21},
{t:"waiting at the United Airlines check-in desk with Jenn, our tour",p:176,x:90,y:597,w:485,h:21},
{t:"manager, and Geof Barkley, the keyboard player. We’re about to ",p:176,x:90,y:623,w:484,h:21},
{t:"board a flight to Australia for Third Day’s tour , and each of us ",p:176,x:90,y:650,w:485,h:21},
{t:"has an extra-large green bag full of band merchandise to check",p:176,x:90,y:677,w:485,h:21},
{t:"in. Rick, the band’s regular merchandise manager , isn’t on this ",p:176,x:90,y:703,w:486,h:21},
{t:"tour, so I have the twin responsibilities of pastor and merchan -",p:176,x:90,y:730,w:479,h:21},
{t:"dise man! The fun really starts at the Melbourne Airport when ",p:176,x:90,y:757,w:486,h:21},
{t:"we have to make an inventory for Australian Customs of each ",p:176,x:90,y:783,w:486,h:21},
{t:"individual T-shirt, poster, wristband, and hat even though we ",p:176,x:90,y:810,w:487,h:21},
{t:"have a completed list with us. Then we learn we need an Aus -",p:176,x:90,y:837,w:479,h:21},
{t:"tralian customs broker to legally bring our merchandise into the ",p:176,x:90,y:863,w:484,h:21},
{t:"country. I have no option other than to go on out and attempt ",p:176,x:90,y:890,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   172",p:176,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:24 AM",p:176,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"173",p:177,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"May Your Wonders Never Cease",p:177,x:353,y:41,w:216,h:21},
{t:"to contact a broker. Meanwhile, Jenn and Geof dutifully wait ",p:177,x:90,y:101,w:487,h:21},
{t:"near piles of T-shirts; the guys are busy finding a coffee shop ",p:177,x:90,y:127,w:486,h:21},
{t:"or checking out the price of Australian cell phones. I eventually",p:177,x:90,y:154,w:485,h:21},
{t:"find a customs broker who agrees to help us out, and we all fly ",p:177,x:90,y:181,w:485,h:21},
{t:"onto Adelaide, hoping and praying that our merchandise will ",p:177,x:90,y:207,w:487,h:21},
{t:"follow us on the next day as promised by the brok er.",p:177,x:90,y:234,w:402,h:21},
{t:"During the whole of our journey and the interesting ex-",p:177,x:120,y:261,w:450,h:21},
{t:"perience with customs, I have been preparing myself for the ",p:177,x:90,y:288,w:487,h:21},
{t:"great opportunity of visiting Australia and New Zealand and ",p:177,x:90,y:314,w:486,h:21},
{t:"am contemplating what the lasting value of the tour will be.",p:177,x:90,y:341,w:464,h:21},
{t:"Third Day had toured Australia and New Zealand before, ",p:177,x:120,y:368,w:457,h:21},
{t:"but it was going to be my first time in either country. I was ",p:177,x:90,y:394,w:487,h:21},
{t:"looking forward to visiting a relative in Adelaide, seeing Syd-",p:177,x:90,y:421,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ney Harbor, and introducing the guys to some real live cricket ",p:177,x:90,y:448,w:485,h:21},
{t:"in one of Australia’s great stadiums. I was excited about our ",p:177,x:90,y:474,w:487,h:21},
{t:"concerts at Hillsong Church in Sydney and at the Parachute ",p:177,x:90,y:501,w:487,h:21},
{t:"Festival in New Zealand.",p:177,x:90,y:528,w:189,h:21},
{t:"In all my excitement and thinking, I was drawn toward a ",p:177,x:120,y:554,w:456,h:21},
{t:"devotional I had read from John Maxwell’s book The 21 Most ",p:177,x:90,y:581,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Powerful Minutes in a Leader’s Day, and I determined to use it ",p:177,x:90,y:608,w:485,h:21},
{t:"in the first devotional time with the band.",p:177,x:90,y:634,w:322,h:21},
{t:"Here’s Mark Lee’s memory of those first few days of the ",p:177,x:120,y:661,w:457,h:21},
{t:"tour as recorded on the Third Day website at the time:",p:177,x:90,y:688,w:416,h:21},
{t:"We connected through Melbourne and on to our frst tour stop in ",p:177,x:90,y:743,w:444,h:22},
{t:"Adelaide. Even though we were tired, there was defnitely an air of ",p:177,x:90,y:770,w:442,h:22},
{t:"excitement among our camp—this was the frst time the band ",p:177,x:90,y:796,w:409,h:22},
{t:"had been to Aussie since 2001, and for some of our crew, this ",p:177,x:90,y:823,w:412,h:22},
{t:"was their frst-ever trip to that part of the world. Most of us ",p:177,x:90,y:850,w:389,h:22},
{t:"spent our frst full day geting ourselves acclimated to the time ",p:177,x:90,y:876,w:411,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   173",p:177,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:25 AM",p:177,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"174",p:178,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:178,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"change (translated: we went to the hotel and “crashed”). We are very ",p:178,x:90,y:100,w:453,h:22},
{t:"fortunate to have our road pastor, Nigel, on this trip with us. Being from ",p:178,x:90,y:127,w:470,h:22},
{t:"the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Northern Ireland, and Principality of ",p:178,x:90,y:153,w:483,h:22},
{t:"Wales, he is a huge cricket fan. So he, Brad, Mac, and I went to the world-",p:178,x:90,y:180,w:478,h:22},
{t:"famous Adelaide Oval where a cricket match was in progress. Nigel did ",p:178,x:90,y:207,w:471,h:22},
{t:"his best to show us the fner points of the game, and I think most of us ",p:178,x:90,y:234,w:460,h:22},
{t:"really enjoyed it. Of particular interest was the cuisine featured at the ",p:178,x:90,y:260,w:453,h:22},
{t:"cricket grounds: chips and meat pies. Very tasty! Ten on the day of the ",p:178,x:90,y:287,w:473,h:22},
{t:"concert in Adelaide, we did some sightseeing in the morning before ",p:178,x:90,y:314,w:454,h:22},
{t:"heading over to the venue to do the show. Adelaide is a beautiful city ",p:178,x:90,y:340,w:465,h:22},
{t:"featuring green rolling hills, a river running through the middle of town, ",p:178,x:90,y:367,w:467,h:22},
{t:"and a magnifcent cathedral. (Not to mention the cricket grounds!) ",p:178,x:90,y:394,w:437,h:22},
{t:"Tonight ’s show was incredible. None of us really knew what to expect, ",p:178,x:90,y:420,w:468,h:22},
{t:"but we were totally blown away by the warm reception we were given. ",p:178,x:90,y:447,w:479,h:22},
{t:"Audio Adrenaline shared the bill with us. We have known those guys ",p:178,x:90,y:474,w:462,h:22},
{t:"for a long time and are all huge fans of theirs, so it was a real treat. Tey ",p:178,x:90,y:500,w:475,h:22},
{t:"totally brought the house down and even did an extended “cowbell ",p:178,x:90,y:527,w:461,h:22},
{t:"solo” during their encore. Te opening band was an Australian outit ",p:178,x:90,y:554,w:456,h:22},
{t:"called Rookie. I think a highlight of the evening was the study that Nigel ",p:178,x:90,y:580,w:475,h:22},
{t:"did with the bands before the show. He challenged us to look for more ",p:178,x:90,y:607,w:481,h:22},
{t:"than trophies or souvenirs to remember this trip. Rather, we should be ",p:178,x:90,y:634,w:470,h:22},
{t:"looking for ways to leave a legacy. It was very encouraging.",p:178,x:90,y:660,w:387,h:22},
{t:"Mark Lee",p:178,x:501,y:694,w:68,h:23},
{t:"In the devotional I shared some of the thoughts from John",p:178,x:120,y:738,w:460,h:21},
{t:"Maxwell about Jesus leaving behind a legacy wherever He went.",p:178,x:90,y:764,w:491,h:21},
{t:"If you think about it, every church, every believer",p:178,x:90,y:791,w:387,h:21},
{t:", every Chris-",p:178,x:467,y:791,w:102,h:21},
{t:"tian band or ministry is a direct legacy of Jesus’ time on earth",p:178,x:90,y:818,w:491,h:21},
{t:"and the results of the obedience of His followers in Bible times ",p:178,x:90,y:844,w:486,h:21},
{t:"and throughout the centuries. This is the devotional message we",p:178,x:90,y:871,w:491,h:21},
{t:"looked at:",p:178,x:90,y:898,w:75,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   174",p:178,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:25 AM",p:178,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"175",p:179,x:544,y:944,w:25,h:21},
{t:"FRUIT THAT LASTS",p:179,x:90,y:353,w:254,h:48},
{t:"Jesus said this to His disciples:",p:179,x:105,y:431,w:200,h:21},
{t:"You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and ",p:179,x:105,y:488,w:387,h:21},
{t:"produce fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you ",p:179,x:105,y:514,w:376,h:21},
{t:"whatever you ask for, using my name.—John 15:16 nlt",p:179,x:105,y:541,w:348,h:21},
{t:"We’ve heard this verse many times, but have you ever wondered how ",p:179,x:105,y:598,w:438,h:21},
{t:"you produce fruit that will last? Fruit, at frst, tends not to be ready to ",p:179,x:90,y:624,w:454,h:21},
{t:"eat, and then it is ripe for a few days, and then it quickly goes rotten ",p:179,x:90,y:651,w:454,h:21},
{t:"unless you preserve it. As leaders coming to serve the church in Aus-",p:179,x:90,y:678,w:449,h:21},
{t:"tralia and New Zealand, how will we ensure that we produce fruit that ",p:179,x:90,y:704,w:454,h:21},
{t:"lasts?",p:179,x:90,y:731,w:38,h:21},
{t:"What do we want to endure from this tour? John Maxwell talks about ",p:179,x:105,y:758,w:438,h:21},
{t:"three types of leaders and the “fruit” they want to produce. I’ve given ",p:179,x:90,y:784,w:454,h:21},
{t:"each leader a name:",p:179,x:90,y:811,w:130,h:21},
{t:"The selfsh leader simply wants to collect souvenirs from life.",p:179,x:90,y:853,w:407,h:22},
{t:"We can travel around on this tour , take photos, buy a toy koala bear , or ",p:179,x:105,y:887,w:438,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   175",p:179,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:26 AM",p:179,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"176",p:180,x:90,y:944,w:25,h:21},
{t:"grab a signed tour poster , but none of that will lead to a lasting kingdom",p:180,x:120,y:100,w:454,h:21},
{t:"impact, even though those things might remind us of our concerts.",p:180,x:120,y:127,w:427,h:21},
{t:"The shallow leader is desperate to win trophies in life.",p:180,x:120,y:168,w:359,h:22},
{t:"So we might take pride in a sell-out crowd in a certain city or a ",p:180,x:135,y:203,w:441,h:21},
{t:"fantastic response to a worship time. We may think that our success ",p:180,x:120,y:230,w:455,h:21},
{t:"can be judged on music-industry awards, number one hits, or Gold ",p:180,x:120,y:256,w:456,h:21},
{t:"Records.",p:180,x:120,y:283,w:55,h:21},
{t:"The smart or strong leader is concerned about leaving a legacy.",p:180,x:120,y:324,w:425,h:22},
{t:"We can realize that true value comes from what we leave behind us ",p:180,x:135,y:351,w:439,h:21},
{t:"and from producing fruit that lasts.",p:180,x:120,y:378,w:228,h:21},
{t:"So how do we leave a legacy? W e do it the same way Jesus did: by pour",p:180,x:135,y:405,w:436,h:21},
{t:"-",p:180,x:563,y:405,w:6,h:21},
{t:"ing ourselves into people so that they can pour their lives into others.",p:180,x:120,y:431,w:441,h:21},
{t:"For this is my blood, which seals the covenant between God and ",p:180,x:157,y:488,w:406,h:21},
{t:"his people. It is poured out to forgive the sins of many. ",p:180,x:157,y:515,w:345,h:21},
{t:"—Matthew 26:28 nlt",p:180,x:157,y:541,w:134,h:21},
{t:"And we take heart from the example of the apostle Paul:",p:180,x:135,y:598,w:358,h:21},
{t:"But whatever I am now, it is all because God poured out his ",p:180,x:157,y:655,w:384,h:21},
{t:"special favor on me—and not without results. For I have worked ",p:180,x:157,y:681,w:415,h:21},
{t:"harder than all the other apostles, yet it was not I but God who ",p:180,x:157,y:708,w:404,h:21},
{t:"was working through me by his grace.—1 Corinthians 15:10 nlt",p:180,x:157,y:735,w:408,h:21},
{t:"But even if my life is to be poured out like a drink offering to ",p:180,x:157,y:791,w:388,h:21},
{t:"complete the sacrifce of your faithful service (that is, if I am to ",p:180,x:157,y:818,w:409,h:21},
{t:"die for you), I will rejoice, and I want to share my joy with all of ",p:180,x:157,y:845,w:404,h:21},
{t:"you.—Philippians 2:17 nlt",p:180,x:157,y:871,w:169,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   176",p:180,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:27 AM",p:180,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"177",p:181,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"Let’s be determined to leave behind a legacy in Australia and New Zea-",p:181,x:105,y:100,w:465,h:21},
{t:"land that will help build the kingdom of God.",p:181,x:90,y:127,w:286,h:21},
{t:"So we determined on the tour to sacrificially pour our lives ",p:181,x:120,y:215,w:454,h:21},
{t:"into serving—not into just collecting souvenirs or trophies, but ",p:181,x:90,y:241,w:485,h:21},
{t:"to leave behind fruit that lasts. Just to prove that the Lord has ",p:181,x:90,y:268,w:485,h:21},
{t:"a great sense of humor, let me tell you a follow-up story about ",p:181,x:90,y:295,w:485,h:21},
{t:"the Australia and New Zealand tour. I decided to present a ",p:181,x:90,y:321,w:488,h:21},
{t:"“Man of the Match” award each night for the best performance ",p:181,x:90,y:348,w:484,h:21},
{t:"by an individual in the band or crew. Man of the Match is ",p:181,x:90,y:375,w:488,h:21},
{t:"the British sporting equivalent of the MVP. So just for fun I ",p:181,x:90,y:401,w:487,h:21},
{t:"might choose Mac for a great comment from stage on Australia ",p:181,x:90,y:428,w:484,h:21},
{t:"Day, or “Wheels,” one of the crew, for a particularly demand-",p:181,x:90,y:455,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ing day. Mark Lee bought a yellow Australian rules football ",p:181,x:90,y:481,w:487,h:21},
{t:"(“Australian rules” is what Australian’s call their version of ",p:181,x:90,y:508,w:488,h:21},
{t:"football), and we used that as the award. The recipients signed ",p:181,x:90,y:535,w:485,h:21},
{t:"it on the night they won the award, and I made sure by the end ",p:181,x:90,y:561,w:484,h:21},
{t:"of the tour that everyone had won it once! Then on our final ",p:181,x:90,y:588,w:486,h:21},
{t:"day Mark realized that he didn’t have enough space in his lug-",p:181,x:90,y:615,w:479,h:21},
{t:"gage for the ball, and he didn’t want to deflate it.",p:181,x:90,y:641,w:380,h:21},
{t:"Graciously, he gave it to me; but then we realized our di-",p:181,x:120,y:668,w:450,h:21},
{t:"lemma—surely I couldn’t accept it as a souvenir! Or as a tro-",p:181,x:90,y:694,w:479,h:23},
{t:"phy! So I accepted it as a permanent reminder of a successful ",p:181,x:90,y:721,w:486,h:21},
{t:"tour and, most importantly, of the lives we had impacted in the ",p:181,x:90,y:748,w:484,h:21},
{t:"name of Jesus.",p:181,x:90,y:775,w:112,h:21},
{t:"It sits on a shelf in my office back in Cardiff, and every ",p:181,x:120,y:801,w:457,h:21},
{t:"time I look at it I realize that Third Day leaves a powerful leg-",p:181,x:90,y:828,w:479,h:21},
{t:"acy behind them wherever they go. Fast-forward to our tour of ",p:181,x:90,y:855,w:484,h:21},
{t:"Australia and New Zealand in early 2007 and Mark Lee’s entry ",p:181,x:90,y:881,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   177",p:181,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:28 AM",p:181,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"178",p:182,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:182,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"on the band’s weblog on Australia Day:",p:182,x:90,y:101,w:305,h:21},
{t:"“God bless Australia!” Tat ’s the fnal thing Mac said from stage ",p:182,x:155,y:156,w:416,h:22},
{t:"tonight, and I don’t think it could be said beter. God bless ",p:182,x:160,y:183,w:392,h:22},
{t:"you guys for having us in your country and being so good ",p:182,x:160,y:209,w:392,h:22},
{t:"to us. God bless you guys on your national holiday. But most ",p:182,x:153,y:236,w:403,h:22},
{t:"importantly, may God continue to work in the lives of believers ",p:182,x:131,y:263,w:423,h:22},
{t:"in this country. It ’s been obvious to us in spending just a few days here ",p:182,x:90,y:289,w:470,h:22},
{t:"that something special is going on in this part of the world, and it was ",p:182,x:90,y:316,w:462,h:22},
{t:"truly an honor for us to play a small role in that this week. Since it was ",p:182,x:90,y:343,w:460,h:22},
{t:"Australia Day, that was the theme that ran throughout the night. Revive ",p:182,x:90,y:369,w:467,h:22},
{t:"did a rendition of “We Are One,” which is sort of an unofcial Australian ",p:182,x:90,y:396,w:478,h:22},
{t:"anthem. Tey even enlisted the help of Mac on the vocals. Apparently ",p:182,x:90,y:423,w:472,h:22},
{t:"it doesn’t mater if you ’ve lived here all your life or if you’re on a three-",p:182,x:90,y:450,w:469,h:22},
{t:"hour layover at the Sydney Airport, you’re an Australian! I joke, but the ",p:182,x:90,y:476,w:474,h:22},
{t:"culture and the atitudes here are so infectious, it doesn’t take long to ",p:182,x:90,y:503,w:463,h:22},
{t:"soak it in and feel like an Australian at heart. ",p:182,x:90,y:530,w:290,h:22},
{t:"In that spirit, we ditched the “Knight Rider” intro we’ve been using for ",p:182,x:90,y:556,w:463,h:22},
{t:"the last several months and instead played a rousing rendition of “Ad-",p:182,x:90,y:583,w:461,h:22},
{t:"vance Australia Fair” before we walked on. Yes, it was a bit of a risk, but it ",p:182,x:90,y:610,w:482,h:22},
{t:"paid of as the whole crowd sang along. No “Back in Black” this time, but ",p:182,x:90,y:636,w:479,h:22},
{t:"we really enjoyed starting the show this way. We said aferward that we ",p:182,x:90,y:663,w:477,h:22},
{t:"wished we’d flmed this night for a DVD. Everything that has been great ",p:182,x:90,y:690,w:476,h:22},
{t:"about the frst two shows happened again tonight, but on a grander ",p:182,x:90,y:716,w:458,h:22},
{t:"scale. People were singing, worshiping, and having a great time. Te frst ",p:182,x:90,y:743,w:481,h:22},
{t:"three rows seemed like they might have all come together—at any rate, ",p:182,x:90,y:770,w:478,h:22},
{t:"it was truly a joy to look out and see everyone so involved. Too bad ",p:182,x:90,y:796,w:460,h:22},
{t:"we didn’t flm it. I think a DVD titled God Bless Australia would’ve been ",p:182,x:90,y:822,w:475,h:23},
{t:"amazing. So it is with mixed feelings that we leave tomorrow for New ",p:182,x:90,y:849,w:460,h:22},
{t:"Zealand. We’re excited to play the Parachute Festival again, and it feels ",p:182,x:90,y:876,w:469,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   178",p:182,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:28 AM",p:182,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"179",p:183,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"May Your Wonders Never Cease",p:183,x:353,y:41,w:216,h:21},
{t:"good to be at least heading in the general direction of home. But this ",p:183,x:90,y:100,w:464,h:22},
{t:"Australian visit was our shortest to date, and we all wish we could have ",p:183,x:90,y:127,w:471,h:22},
{t:"stayed longer for some sightseeing. It defnitely lef us wanting more, ",p:183,x:90,y:153,w:456,h:22},
{t:"which is a good thing. We hope to be back real soon!",p:183,x:90,y:180,w:359,h:22},
{t:"Mark Lee, January 2007",p:183,x:406,y:206,w:163,h:23},
{t:"Without exaggerating, everyone connected with Third Day ",p:183,x:120,y:250,w:455,h:21},
{t:"is aware that wherever the band goes, it imparts not just a ",p:183,x:90,y:277,w:488,h:21},
{t:"great concert and awesome music but a lasting spiritual de-",p:183,x:90,y:303,w:480,h:21},
{t:"posit in people’s lives. God really is about His business through ",p:183,x:90,y:330,w:484,h:21},
{t:"the ministry of Third Day. Brad speaks on behalf of the band ",p:183,x:90,y:357,w:486,h:21},
{t:"when he observes this, too:",p:183,x:90,y:383,w:209,h:21},
{t:"What a blessing to be part of something that is so much big-",p:183,x:90,y:439,w:402,h:22},
{t:"ger than we could have achieved on our own. When we ",p:183,x:90,y:465,w:384,h:22},
{t:"started out playing music together, our only desire was to ",p:183,x:90,y:492,w:385,h:22},
{t:"be able to play in front of people and share the message of ",p:183,x:90,y:519,w:403,h:22},
{t:"hope with whoever would listen. Of course, we were passion-",p:183,x:90,y:545,w:414,h:22},
{t:"ate about the music we were creating and wanted it to be excellent, ",p:183,x:90,y:572,w:457,h:22},
{t:"but we were thrilled to be able to play just a few nights a week and ",p:183,x:90,y:599,w:454,h:22},
{t:"tell our story. We knew that the story we shared was the most powerful ",p:183,x:90,y:625,w:477,h:22},
{t:"ever to be lived, writen, or told. We had witnessed this power frsthand ",p:183,x:90,y:652,w:484,h:22},
{t:"in our own lives and wanted others to experience it also. So, we wrote ",p:183,x:90,y:679,w:472,h:22},
{t:"songs about the gospel, our faith, and how God had rerouted our lives ",p:183,x:90,y:705,w:477,h:22},
{t:"from a destructive path to one that leads to eternal freedom.",p:183,x:90,y:732,w:404,h:22},
{t:"As our faith matured over time, so did our writing. Our message ",p:183,x:90,y:759,w:429,h:22},
{t:"remained the same, but we discovered new ways to deliver it. We ",p:183,x:90,y:785,w:445,h:22},
{t:"wanted to reach as many people as possible. Much like the apostle ",p:183,x:90,y:812,w:450,h:22},
{t:"Paul, we were striving to be “all things to all people, that we might win ",p:183,x:90,y:839,w:464,h:22},
{t:"some.” Tat meant honing our skills even further and taking chances. ",p:183,x:90,y:865,w:451,h:22},
{t:"Being dangerous and fresh. Speaking in a way that all might be able to ",p:183,x:90,y:892,w:468,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   179",p:183,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:29 AM",p:183,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"180",p:184,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:184,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"understand—not just a few. Playing in venues that those who had never ",p:184,x:90,y:100,w:480,h:22},
{t:"entered a church would feel comfortable atending. ",p:184,x:90,y:127,w:348,h:22},
{t:"We also wanted to give back to God in worship the honor and praise ",p:184,x:90,y:153,w:470,h:22},
{t:"we felt He deserved, so we recorded material in a way that wasn’t cal-",p:184,x:90,y:180,w:465,h:22},
{t:"culated and methodical. Instead, we relied on God to show up super-",p:184,x:90,y:207,w:465,h:22},
{t:"naturally, fuse our music together, and cover it with His Spirit. Tat time ",p:184,x:90,y:234,w:472,h:22},
{t:"in worship moved us and challenged us to use our platorm to mobilize ",p:184,x:90,y:260,w:480,h:22},
{t:"our fans. We were convinced that vertical worship alone was empty un-",p:184,x:90,y:287,w:477,h:22},
{t:"less it led to an outpouring and “mighty food of justice” for the needy ",p:184,x:90,y:314,w:469,h:22},
{t:"children of God around the world. We began pointing people to ",p:184,x:90,y:340,w:443,h:22},
{t:"organizations that were doing the work of Christ internationally. World ",p:184,x:90,y:367,w:469,h:22},
{t:"Vision, Habitat for Humanity, DATA, Invisible Children, and many others ",p:184,x:90,y:394,w:478,h:22},
{t:"were being the “hands and feet” of Christ. Tey met basic needs and ",p:184,x:90,y:420,w:463,h:22},
{t:"exemplifed His love with the good news as their foundation and fuel. ",p:184,x:90,y:447,w:467,h:22},
{t:"Today, the message remains the same. Yet, we will always endeavor to ",p:184,x:90,y:474,w:467,h:22},
{t:"present it in a way that ultimately will touch the listener ’s heart and “spur ",p:184,x:90,y:500,w:478,h:22},
{t:"them on to love and good deeds.” We strive to make an impression on ",p:184,x:90,y:527,w:476,h:22},
{t:"this world that is much more than artistic and cultural. We want the time ",p:184,x:90,y:554,w:476,h:22},
{t:"we have been given to be used efectively and to make a lasting impact ",p:184,x:90,y:580,w:482,h:22},
{t:"eternally on the lives of God’s children. Tis is the legacy of Tird Day.",p:184,x:90,y:607,w:461,h:22},
{t:"Brad Avery, October 2006",p:184,x:381,y:640,w:188,h:23},
{t:"On the spring leg of the Wherever You Are tour, we found ",p:184,x:120,y:684,w:455,h:21},
{t:"ourselves in Los Angeles, playing at Universal Studios, when ",p:184,x:90,y:711,w:486,h:21},
{t:"David invited me to lunch with some of the guys. We would be ",p:184,x:90,y:738,w:484,h:21},
{t:"visiting the home of Thomas Wilson and his family. That name ",p:184,x:90,y:764,w:484,h:21},
{t:"might mean nothing to you, but if I mention that Thomas Wil-",p:184,x:90,y:791,w:479,h:21},
{t:"son played the bullying Biff Tannen in all the Back to the Fu-",p:184,x:90,y:818,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ture movies, then you’ll probably know who I mean. ",p:184,x:90,y:844,w:409,h:21},
{t:"Thomas is now a musician, a standup comedian, and a ",p:184,x:120,y:871,w:458,h:21},
{t:"strong believer. As well as serving us with a good lunch and ",p:184,x:90,y:898,w:486,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   180",p:184,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:29 AM",p:184,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"181",p:185,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"May Your Wonders Never Cease",p:185,x:353,y:41,w:216,h:21},
{t:"being a very amusing host, Thomas also showed us his den. It’s ",p:185,x:90,y:101,w:484,h:21},
{t:"the place where he paints, writes, and listens to music. It’s also ",p:185,x:90,y:127,w:485,h:21},
{t:"the place where he keeps a few select mementos from the Back ",p:185,x:90,y:154,w:485,h:21},
{t:"to the Future films—one of the hover boards, for example. We ",p:185,x:90,y:181,w:485,h:23},
{t:"talked a little bit about the impact of those films and whether ",p:185,x:90,y:207,w:486,h:21},
{t:"he felt frustrated to always be remembered for being in them. ",p:185,x:90,y:234,w:486,h:21},
{t:"“On the contrary,” replied Thom, “it was and still is a privi-",p:185,x:90,y:261,w:480,h:21},
{t:"lege.” He was proud to include the Back to the Future movies ",p:185,x:90,y:288,w:486,h:21},
{t:"in his list of achievements. For many of us there that day, ",p:185,x:90,y:314,w:488,h:21},
{t:"it was a surreal experience because we’d all seen the movies ",p:185,x:90,y:341,w:487,h:21},
{t:"when we were younger, and here we were talking to one of the ",p:185,x:90,y:368,w:484,h:21},
{t:"stars. It was yet another instance when we paused to consider ",p:185,x:90,y:394,w:485,h:21},
{t:"the impact of popular culture and the opportunity to shape and ",p:185,x:90,y:421,w:484,h:21},
{t:"influence people’s lives.",p:185,x:90,y:448,w:182,h:21},
{t:"Mac reflects on Third Day’s effect and the things he is most ",p:185,x:120,y:474,w:454,h:21},
{t:"proud to have left as a lasting legacy.",p:185,x:90,y:501,w:288,h:21},
{t:"Winning fve Dove Awards, including Band of the Year and ",p:185,x:90,y:556,w:395,h:22},
{t:"Artist of the Year, sticks out in my mind. To this day I still can’t ",p:185,x:90,y:583,w:403,h:22},
{t:"give an acceptance speech for an award without being ",p:185,x:90,y:610,w:370,h:22},
{t:"amazed that it is happening and without crying and shak-",p:185,x:90,y:636,w:378,h:22},
{t:"ing. I get so nervous and excited thinking that our peers have ",p:185,x:90,y:663,w:410,h:22},
{t:"acknowledged us. Ten we go backstage and high-fve each other! Our ",p:185,x:90,y:690,w:483,h:22},
{t:"times at the Grammy Awards have been special too, but for me the ",p:185,x:90,y:716,w:451,h:22},
{t:"most emotional and memorable times have been the Doves because ",p:185,x:90,y:743,w:465,h:22},
{t:"those are our people, our peers, and our friends in our industry.",p:185,x:90,y:770,w:427,h:22},
{t:"When I hear someone singing a Tird Day song in church or at an ",p:185,x:90,y:796,w:441,h:22},
{t:"event, or I hear one of our songs on the radio, I’m still, even today, as ",p:185,x:90,y:823,w:459,h:22},
{t:"excited by that as the frst time I experienced it. When we receive an ",p:185,x:90,y:850,w:461,h:22},
{t:"award or get a number one single, I’m still very excited and never take ",p:185,x:90,y:876,w:470,h:22},
{t:"those things for granted.",p:185,x:90,y:903,w:160,h:22},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   181",p:185,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:29 AM",p:185,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"182",p:186,x:90,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"LESSONS from the ROAD",p:186,x:89,y:42,w:241,h:19},
{t:"As I look back on our time together, I’m very proud that we have been ",p:186,x:90,y:100,w:475,h:22},
{t:"the same fve guys together since 1994. Tat ’s a big deal for me—and ",p:186,x:90,y:127,w:470,h:22},
{t:"that we’ve remained faithful to our calling and to the music we believe ",p:186,x:90,y:153,w:470,h:22},
{t:"we should be playing. Our catalog of music has been the thing that has ",p:186,x:90,y:180,w:475,h:22},
{t:"most afected people. Not the Dove Awards, or the Gold Records, or ",p:186,x:90,y:207,w:470,h:22},
{t:"our videos, but it ’s the songs that God has used to afect people’s lives. ",p:186,x:90,y:234,w:474,h:22},
{t:"Tat ’s what I’m most proud of.",p:186,x:90,y:260,w:197,h:22},
{t:"Mac Powell, November 2006",p:186,x:366,y:294,w:203,h:23},
{t:"I’m writing my final piece for this book in my own study, ",p:186,x:120,y:337,w:456,h:21},
{t:"a couple of weeks after Third Day’s successful tour of the UK ",p:186,x:90,y:364,w:486,h:21},
{t:"in May 2007.",p:186,x:90,y:391,w:101,h:21},
{t:"The guys flew over to London straight after being on a ",p:186,x:120,y:417,w:458,h:21},
{t:"Christian music cruise for a week and, with just twenty-four ",p:186,x:90,y:444,w:487,h:21},
{t:"hours rest, went into a hectic UK schedule. Our itinerary went ",p:186,x:90,y:471,w:485,h:21},
{t:"like this:",p:186,x:90,y:497,w:65,h:21},
{t:"Sunday: regroup and rest in a London hotel, with an early ",p:186,x:120,y:524,w:455,h:21},
{t:"evening devotional time.",p:186,x:90,y:551,w:190,h:21},
{t:"Monday: play at the Royal Albert Hall, London, for an HIV/",p:186,x:120,y:577,w:449,h:21},
{t:"AIDS charity benefit concert.",p:186,x:90,y:604,w:223,h:21},
{t:"Tuesday: travel down to Cardiff for a concert in the night-",p:186,x:120,y:631,w:449,h:21},
{t:"club venue at Cardiff University.",p:186,x:90,y:658,w:249,h:21},
{t:"Wednesday: day off, visit Stonehenge and then Oxford on ",p:186,x:120,y:684,w:456,h:21},
{t:"a C. S. Lewis tour.",p:186,x:90,y:711,w:138,h:21},
{t:"Thursday: fly to Belfast, Northern Ireland, for a concert in ",p:186,x:120,y:738,w:455,h:21},
{t:"Northern Ireland’s largest church.",p:186,x:90,y:764,w:257,h:21},
{t:"Friday: fly to Glasgow to perform in Barrowlands, a leg-",p:186,x:120,y:791,w:450,h:21},
{t:"endary rock ’n’ roll club.",p:186,x:90,y:818,w:189,h:21},
{t:"Saturday: fly home! The band back to Atlanta, the crew ",p:186,x:120,y:844,w:457,h:21},
{t:"back to Nashville, me back to Cardiff.",p:186,x:90,y:871,w:289,h:21},
{t:"Four completely different performance venues in a whis-",p:186,x:120,y:898,w:449,h:21},
{t:"Lessons From the Road MAR 08.indd   182",p:186,x:16,y:1055,w:192,h:13},
{t:"3/21/08   8:22:29 AM",p:186,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"183",p:187,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"May Your Wonders Never Cease",p:187,x:353,y:41,w:216,h:21},
{t:"tle-stop tour of all four nations of Great Britain, with some ",p:187,x:90,y:101,w:487,h:21},
{t:"typically British sightseeing thrown in the middle! It’s always ",p:187,x:90,y:127,w:486,h:21},
{t:"exciting for me to work with Third Day in the UK, and this ",p:187,x:90,y:154,w:487,h:21},
{t:"tour was no different. Perhaps a personal highlight was being ",p:187,x:90,y:181,w:486,h:21},
{t:"able to sleep in my own bed on the night of the Cardiff con-",p:187,x:90,y:207,w:480,h:21},
{t:"cert. Now that was a first! Sleeping in my own house in the ",p:187,x:90,y:234,w:487,h:21},
{t:"middle of a Third Day tour! It felt very strange—the last time ",p:187,x:90,y:261,w:486,h:23},
{t:"we played Cardiff, we drove overnight to the next concert, but ",p:187,x:90,y:288,w:485,h:21},
{t:"this time the guys stayed in a Cardiff hotel.",p:187,x:90,y:314,w:333,h:21},
{t:"Reflecting on the tour has given me the opportunity to sum ",p:187,x:120,y:341,w:454,h:21},
{t:"up what I believe Third Day’s ministry is all about, why I am ",p:187,x:90,y:368,w:486,h:21},
{t:"committed to partnering with them, and what I believe they will ",p:187,x:90,y:394,w:483,h:21},
{t:"ultimately be remembered for. Just hours after the band landed ",p:187,x:90,y:421,w:484,h:21},
{t:"in London, I wandered down to the famous “Speakers Corner” ",p:187,x:90,y:448,w:485,h:21},
{t:"in Hyde Park with Tai and a couple of crew guys. Speakers Cor-",p:187,x:90,y:474,w:479,h:21},
{t:"ner is a place where anyone can come along, stand on a box ",p:187,x:90,y:501,w:486,h:21},
{t:"or a stepladder, and begin speaking out or preaching. Many ",p:187,x:90,y:528,w:487,h:21},
{t:"people go to speak, and even more go along to listen. In years ",p:187,x:90,y:554,w:485,h:21},
{t:"gone by some of London’s finest preachers would be there on ",p:187,x:90,y:581,w:486,h:21},
{t:"a Sunday afternoon, but now it’s a cosmopolitan selection of ",p:187,x:90,y:608,w:486,h:21},
{t:"folks that can be found there—numerous Christian evangelists, ",p:187,x:90,y:634,w:484,h:23},
{t:"Muslims of different groups and perspectives, Rastafarians, one ",p:187,x:90,y:661,w:484,h:21},
{t:"or two die-hard Communists, humanists, atheists, and one or ",p:187,x:90,y:688,w:486,h:21},
{t:"two plain eccentrics!",p:187,x:90,y:714,w:159,h:21},
{t:"We wandered around for a while, just watching and listen-",p:187,x:120,y:741,w:449,h:21},
{t:"ing to the various speakers competing with each other for the ",p:187,x:90,y:768,w:486,h:21},
{t:"crowd’s attention. Some members of the crowd would heckle ",p:187,x:90,y:794,w:486,h:21},
{t:"and shout out in disagreement, and some of the speakers would ",p:187,x:90,y:821,w:484,h:21},
{t:"engage each other directly in argument. It reminded me of ",p:187,x:90,y:848,w:488,h:21},
{t:"the marketplace the apostle Paul visited in Athens in Acts 17. ",p:187,x:90,y:874,w:486,h:21},
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{t:"While we were wandering around, Tai made a very perceptive ",p:188,x:90,y:101,w:485,h:21},
{t:"comment, which he’s liable to do from time to time. He noticed ",p:188,x:90,y:127,w:484,h:21},
{t:"that some of the world’s big questions were being debated right ",p:188,x:90,y:154,w:484,h:21},
{t:"there in the open air in a London park. Christians and Muslims, ",p:188,x:90,y:181,w:484,h:21},
{t:"in particular, were engaged in heated debate. I made the ob-",p:188,x:90,y:207,w:479,h:21},
{t:"servation that this phenomenon was unlikely to be seen any-",p:188,x:90,y:234,w:480,h:21},
{t:"where else in the world. People would either be moved on for ",p:188,x:90,y:261,w:486,h:21},
{t:"creating a public nuisance or be arrested by the government ",p:188,x:90,y:288,w:487,h:21},
{t:"for blasphemy. Something sparked inside Tai, perhaps when he ",p:188,x:90,y:314,w:484,h:21},
{t:"couldn’t resist joining in the dialogue, but he was challenged ",p:188,x:90,y:341,w:486,h:21},
{t:"by the scene and realized that this was the world that Third ",p:188,x:90,y:368,w:487,h:21},
{t:"Day was called to be witnesses in.",p:188,x:90,y:394,w:261,h:21},
{t:"There was very little theology we would have disagreed ",p:188,x:120,y:421,w:458,h:21},
{t:"with spoken by the Christians present, but the way they pre -",p:188,x:90,y:448,w:480,h:21},
{t:"sented their faith wasn’t exactly seasoned with grace, compas-",p:188,x:90,y:474,w:479,h:21},
{t:"sion, or mercy. As we walked away from the scene, Dave, Third ",p:188,x:90,y:501,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Day’s production manager, reckoned the most effective Chris-",p:188,x:90,y:528,w:479,h:21},
{t:"tian presence he had experienced at Speak ers Corner was from a ",p:188,x:90,y:554,w:484,h:21},
{t:"small, elderly man who simply walked around placing his hand ",p:188,x:90,y:581,w:485,h:21},
{t:"on people’s shoulders and telling them that God loved them.",p:188,x:90,y:608,w:464,h:21},
{t:"A couple of hours later in our Bible study together, which ",p:188,x:120,y:634,w:455,h:21},
{t:"focused on building our faith for the concerts ahead, Tai and I ",p:188,x:90,y:661,w:485,h:21},
{t:"shared some of our feelings about Speakers Corner. We said it ",p:188,x:90,y:688,w:485,h:21},
{t:"reminded us all that, in the modern-day melting pot of ideas, ",p:188,x:90,y:714,w:486,h:21},
{t:"ideals, and ideologies, Third Day has a significant part to play ",p:188,x:90,y:741,w:485,h:21},
{t:"as witnesses and communicators of the God who wants to ",p:188,x:90,y:768,w:489,h:21},
{t:"reach out to everyone with the touch of His Son Jesus and say, ",p:188,x:90,y:794,w:485,h:21},
{t:"“I love you.”",p:188,x:90,y:821,w:96,h:21},
{t:"The four concerts in the UK that week certainly demon-",p:188,x:120,y:848,w:449,h:21},
{t:"strated the powerful ministry of Third Day, with the audiences ",p:188,x:90,y:874,w:485,h:21},
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{t:"3/21/08   8:22:29 AM",p:188,x:560,y:1055,w:92,h:13},
{t:"185",p:189,x:544,y:943,w:25,h:21},
{t:"May Your Wonders Never Cease",p:189,x:353,y:41,w:216,h:21},
{t:"enjoying a rock show and experiencing a powerful encounter ",p:189,x:90,y:101,w:486,h:21},
{t:"with the Lord. It was a privilege for me, in Cardiff, Belfast, and ",p:189,x:90,y:127,w:485,h:21},
{t:"Glasgow, to spend some time talking to the audience each night ",p:189,x:90,y:154,w:484,h:21},
{t:"about two overseas projects we were encouraging the crowd to ",p:189,x:90,y:181,w:484,h:21},
{t:"help us with. Ignite has been building churches in India in ",p:189,x:90,y:207,w:488,h:21},
{t:"the poorest villages near the school Third Day helped to fund; ",p:189,x:90,y:234,w:485,h:21},
{t:"and Trevor King from Belfast, who helped us promote the UK ",p:189,x:90,y:261,w:486,h:21},
{t:"concerts, has been supporting a project in Ghana that is res-",p:189,x:90,y:288,w:479,h:21},
{t:"cuing children from slavery in the fishing industry. We raised ",p:189,x:90,y:314,w:486,h:21},
{t:"over £9,000 from the three concerts, which is about $18,000. ",p:189,x:90,y:341,w:486,h:21},
{t:"In the Barrowlands venue, a notorious rock venue in a very ",p:189,x:90,y:368,w:487,h:21},
{t:"rough part of Glasgow, the bar was open during the concert, ",p:189,x:90,y:394,w:486,h:21},
{t:"and as the buckets went around for people to donate money, ",p:189,x:90,y:421,w:486,h:21},
{t:"the bar staff collected up all their tips and donated them to the ",p:189,x:90,y:448,w:485,h:21},
{t:"projects. When we discovered this, we were both thrilled and ",p:189,x:90,y:474,w:486,h:21},
{t:"humbled at the same time. ",p:189,x:90,y:501,w:209,h:21},
{t:"These were four concerts out of the thousands over the ",p:189,x:120,y:528,w:458,h:21},
{t:"years that the band has played, but they were four concerts ",p:189,x:90,y:554,w:487,h:21},
{t:"that epitomized exactly who Third Day is. Not that the band ",p:189,x:90,y:581,w:487,h:21},
{t:"is finished by any means, but the legacy they will leave is as ",p:189,x:90,y:608,w:486,h:21},
{t:"a massively accomplished rock band, a bunch of worshipers ",p:189,x:90,y:634,w:487,h:21},
{t:"who lead others into life-changing encounters with God, and ",p:189,x:90,y:661,w:486,h:21},
{t:"members of the body of Christ who serve the body worldwide ",p:189,x:90,y:688,w:485,h:21},
{t:"and who encourage the body to reach out in Christian love to ",p:189,x:90,y:714,w:485,h:21},
{t:"those who are desperately in need.",p:189,x:90,y:741,w:265,h:21},
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{t:"“A big part of Third Day touring life is our devotional time. One of the things that has ",p:196,x:782,y:885,w:547,h:21},
{t:"helped us have the impact we've had as a band is our commitment to read the Bible ",p:196,x:783,y:910,w:544,h:21},
{t:"and pray with each other. Over many years, our good friend Nigel has sharpened our ",p:196,x:786,y:935,w:539,h:21},
{t:"focus for that. Read this book and discover how.”   MAC POWELL, THIRD DAY",p:196,x:809,y:959,w:489,h:22},
{t:"An authorized “all access” pass into Third Day, winners ",p:196,x:63,y:32,w:541,h:32},
{t:"of twenty-two Dove awards and three Grammy awards.",p:196,x:68,y:64,w:527,h:32},
{t:"NIGEL JAMES, ROAD PASTOR FOR THIRD DAY, gives insight into the touring life ",p:196,x:45,y:120,w:555,h:19},
{t:"of one of the top Christian rock bands—the excitement, the homesickness, the ",p:196,x:45,y:141,w:534,h:19},
{t:"relentless schedule, the challenge to stay committed to God’s purpose while on ",p:196,x:45,y:163,w:542,h:19},
{t:"the road.",p:196,x:45,y:185,w:60,h:19},
{t:"Nigel, with major contributions from Tai Anderson, Brad Avery, David Carr, Mark ",p:196,x:45,y:215,w:550,h:19},
{t:"Lee, and Mac Powell, gives a real look at some of the trials that they face. Just ",p:196,x:45,y:236,w:539,h:19},
{t:"because they’re members of a rock band on the road doesn’t make them exempt ",p:196,x:45,y:258,w:550,h:19},
{t:"from the realities of life. Also included:",p:196,x:45,y:280,w:264,h:19},
{t:"Devotions James shared with the guys of Third Day",p:196,x:144,y:324,w:403,h:21},
{t:"Stories behind some of their songs",p:196,x:144,y:368,w:271,h:21},
{t:"Memories from some of the many tours the guys have ",p:196,x:144,y:411,w:432,h:21},
{t:"been on over the last few years",p:196,x:144,y:434,w:244,h:21},
{t:"This book will take you into the life of Third Day and open up to you amazing ",p:196,x:46,y:486,w:539,h:19},
{t:"spiritual insights from Nigel James as he shares lessons from the road. ",p:196,x:46,y:507,w:479,h:19},
{t:"The Third Day guys plus Nigel equals a potent team. I've enjoyed many conversations, ",p:196,x:60,y:556,w:520,h:20},
{t:"prayers, Bible studies, songs, and pizza with this crew . . . and look forward to ",p:196,x:60,y:579,w:474,h:20},
{t:"opportunities to do more with them in the future. They are simply some of the finest folks ",p:196,x:60,y:603,w:542,h:20},
{t:"I know. They do their best to live what they sing and sing what they love—songs about ",p:196,x:60,y:626,w:525,h:20},
{t:"their Savior. Any insight into their hearts is a welcome event—this book included.",p:196,x:60,y:649,w:494,h:20},
{t:" —Max Lucado, pastor and author",p:196,x:60,y:684,w:190,h:22},
{t:"NIGEL JAMES has traveled extensively as Third Day’s road pastor since 2000. He is the founding director ",p:196,x:45,y:741,w:571,h:15},
{t:"of a youth discipleship ministry called Ignite based in the UK and is on the associate staff of City ",p:196,x:45,y:761,w:530,h:15},
{t:"Temple Elim Pentecostal Church in Cardiff, Wales. Nigel, his wife Gill, and the Ignite organization ",p:196,x:45,y:781,w:533,h:15},
{t:"support Christian work in south India developing a school and funding church buildings.",p:196,x:45,y:801,w:482,h:15},
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