Birthing

Putting together and recording a Zoe cd is work--it is a birthing process of sorts. Planning begins months in advance. The breath of the Holy Spirit blows over the process as each piece is chosen, transcribed, practiced and perfected. Then the pregnant project enters the studio and through multiple and long labor pains, the cd is born. The gifts of accomplished musicians, engineers, and the producer help with the birth. The baby arrives ready to give pleasure to the thousands who will hear it and worship with it.

John Wesley, who promoted hymn singing in the Methodist movement he founded (and he wrote many of the hymns), was right: hymns are a "body of practical divinity, a sung theology." Don Saliers writes that where people sing of God, theology is formed and expressed. It shapes the religious community by its rhythm and pitch.
(From Practicing Our Faith by Dorothy C. Bass).

As a Zoe groupie, I affim that their recordings have both shaped the theology and the religious community where they are heard. Thanks, Brandon for taking me to the studio Saturday to watch you lay your solos down on the tracks and for allowing me to hear some of the new songs. All Zoe fans and God will bless and love the new cd
for the "practical divinity" and grace it contains.