for KING & COUNTRY & Tye Tribbett – Love And Respect…Amplified

TT: Because God is not man. That’s what the Bible says. He’s not man. Man may have posture, perspective, all of that going on. But God is eternal. He sits outside of all this, looking at all of his children. You know what I remember? I remember someone saying that a rainbow [on earth] has many, many colors. But when you read in Revelation, it says there’s a rainbow over the throne that’s of emerald. It’s just one color. God only sees one color. I like that thinking.

God being “home” for us, it’s like, “Listen, man, let’s all take on our Father’s perspective of each other.” That’s the only true perspective because He made us. We can all rest. That’s what home is, a resting place. We can rest in His perception and perspective of His creation, which are you and I. We have to choose that perspective and posture as believers. I’m doing it.

CCM: Referencing the trailer again, I was struck by this notion of “Jesus liking the pieces…” It’s makes me think of the distinctions between the gospel music and secular music worlds. In mainstream music, each genre kind-of takes on its own “industry,” but the gospel industry is a mash up of everything.

How cool is it that, potentially, what the Dove Awards is accomplishing on one night is representative of all of His “pieces” coming together? That we actually might be walking into what Jesus has designed for this to be all along?
TT: I think that’s really cool how you put it, actually. Again, I think it’s great that the Dove Awards is actually intentional about it. Let’s grab this group, this crew, that crew. Let’s grab all these people who are Kingdom-minded, who are singing praise and worship toward the same God that we all serve. Let’s showcase us together. Let’s showcase us on the same stage. Let’s showcase Tye introducing Chris Tomlin—and for KING & COUNTRY introducing Anthony Brown. Let’s show that. I am so for that. I have been for years, and that’s why it’s a double, triple, quadruple honor for me to be co-hosting so we can scream this theme of love, unity, and many members—but also one body in Christ.

LS: Man, I had a conversation once with Joel Houston from Hillsong UNITED. He’s obviously a fellow Australian. I said to him, “Man, sometimes I just want to throw down everything and write worship songs like you guys do.” He looked at me and he said, “Man, sometimes I just want to throw down everything and write songs like you do.” It actually was a moment where I thought, “That’s what the body of artists should be doing—we should be able to have these different expressions of music.” That does something to my heart.

What I realized is that God has designed me with gifts to work in certain aspects of music. That doesn’t necessarily mean that every aspect of music that I work on hits 100% of people. There’s other people out there that write bluegrass music, or they write gospel music—all of that is incredibly important. All of us have a part to play. If one of goes off into something that might not be what we’re necessarily called to do, then the entire body might suffer.

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