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Recently Mars Hill Church in Seattle, in partnership of God’s Block Ministry, hosted Cross Movement HIStory Tour. Resurgence was able to grab some interviews with some of the artists. This interview is with the Ambassador who is also one of the pastors in Philadelphia at Epiphany Fellowship. Special thanks to Jason Wendorf, a deacon at Mars Hill Church, for conducting the interview.

In parts 4 & 5 of Mark Driscoll's Dick Staub interview listen to how he sees people are linking their identity to music and how music today really exposes the theme music of your life. In the same way we need to realize that even Christian music needs to connect to their story and not just be superficial. Does our music mimic the culture or does Christian music express the depths of God in relation to man?

Last summer I got a call from a writer named Andrew Beaujon at Spin magazine. He wanted to interview me for a book he was writing on the history of Christian rock music. He was not a Christian but had made himself very knowledgeable of Christian-ese language and culture and seemed, in our brief conversation, to be a good enough guy. I recently received a copy of the new book, Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inside the Phenomenon of Christian Rock. It is a good book that follows Christian rock history up to the present, with the benefit of being evaluated through the eyes of a non-Christian. Beaujon reports that sales of Christian music totaled 47 million albums in 2003-outselling jazz, classical music, and New Age combined, with sales climbing 10% each year for the past five years. Obviously, this subject is important and intriguing.