Mark Lowry & Andrew Greer – The Art Of Conversation

ML: They’re all unplanned. I don’t even know what I’m thinking until I hear myself say it. That is part of my routine, too. So, I just went back into my routine. It’s the truth. Even my routine comes from the truth of my life, that I am a talk-thinker. My mother was, too. I can hear myself talk and know what I’m thinking. There are a lot of us out there. My dad can actually think through his whole sentence before he says it. If I think it through, by the time I get to the end of the sentence, I’ve forgotten what I was gonna say…it just has to be spoken.

Anyway, I called [Andrew] one night and said, hey let’s do this. I was thinking about retiring and I thought, well I need to do something. I know that through Facebook, I’ve found that you can sit on your couch, or your Lay-Z-Boy in my case, and pull out your phone and do a “Live” and reach more people than you’ll ever reach in a tour—in just one moment. If it’s really about reaching people, if you don’t need the money or the work, I thought, “Stay home.” So, I called him, and it turned into all this. He really took it to the next level.

I thought we would do our conversations like we are right now, but we’d just have our phones out and edit it. I thought that’d be cool. I’d watch that. I love Podcasts and YouTube videos, as long as they’ve got something to say and keep it interesting. We did it to a new level.

AG: If there’s going to be “this,” what I was hoping for the level of conversation that we could actually have with the guests in the room, going off the inspiration of that, Mark and I are able to have good conversation, that we’re conversationalists, and then to inspire that, encourage that in other people. I just started thinking, because of where we are culturally, I would love for these to have posterity, to live in posterity. As a way to say, “You can have these conversations at home, too.” There is not a subject you can’t broach, within the safety, within the sanctuary of the communion of conversation.

photo: Kelly Jobe

ML: …eating, and we love both.

AG: Yeah, food.

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