by David Dodd

I want to talk to you about love and you falling in love. It happened to you a long time ago when you were a keyboard player and then all of a sudden you saw a drum set.

I’m glad you mentioned the drum set because I was thinking, David, I fell in love? But I got it, I’m there.  I was 13 or 14 and I was playing keyboards and loved it, it was awesome. But for some reason, it just wasn’t my thing and I didn’t feel comfortable playing the keyboards on stage. I don’t know what it was. Then one day I saw a drum set and I thought that looks like a lot of fun. I sat down and started playing and I never stopped.

I think I might know the answer to why you were attracted to the drums.

Please tell me what you think…

On stage you sing and talk a lot behind the drum set, and you have this unbridled energy where it gets to the point of being a bit obnoxious, which I love. You’re obnoxious for Christ out there and it’s hard to do that when you’re a keyboard player.
 

You’re right.

Because I can see your passion for the Lord just coming thru when you’re out there and I think it’s possible that at one point God wanted to make a point and He thought, ‘This keyboard thing is working out, but I think she’ll be far more radical for Me if she were behind the drums.’

I think you’re absolutely right. And when you said being radical for Christ, I think that’s where He wants us to be.  I think everyone else in this world is radical in what they believe in. The non-Christians are radical in what they believe in and they speak on whatever they want, but a lot of Christians are always backing down saying they don’t want to offend anybody, we don’t want to hurt your feelings so we don’t talk about what God wants us to talk about, you know, we don’t do what He’s calling us to stand up for, and I think it’s just time where I think our generation is kind of getting sick of that, they’re like, ‘You know what? It is time for us to stand up, it’s time for us to be radical and speak about the things that God is calling us to do in our lives.’ I just see this uprising in this world today that Christians are getting sick and tired of believing the lie that we can’t speak what God is calling us to speak and so I think it’s very cool. It’s like this revolution starting.

That seems to be underlying theme of your new record, How Can We Be Silent and especially your song, Million Voices. Plus there’s this element of totally trusting God and relying on Him.  I know there have been many times in your life and the lives of your family where that’s happened. Because I know He has really made some radical moves in you. Once we have that understanding in a daily process, we want to be more radical for Him.

Yeah. Even the process of us getting signed to a record deal was amazing and radical. I mean my dad had a really good job at a big mega-church in Chicago. We all worked at that church, it was part of our lives. But God said, ‘Your work here was good and you did exactly what I wanted you to do, but now it’s time,’ he told me dad, ‘it’s time for you to quit your job, it’s time for you to be done and I want you and your family to stay at home and I want you to pray all day, and I want you to press into me and find out the next step.’

And we’re thinking, seriously, you seriously want our dad to quit his job and to give up our source of income and follow you right now, is this really what you’re calling us to do? And He said, ‘Yes. Trust me and I’ll provide for you.’ And we said, ‘alright, we’re going to do this.’

And on my dad’s last day at church, a person from the congregation came up and told him he heard about his journey and what our family was about to do and he offered to support us for six months. He said he wanted to support us as we walk in faith. So this man paid our family’s income for six months while we did this whole sitting in front of God for hours a day praying – literally - all our family would do was pray. And so we did that, you know, I think we might have done that season before we were signed for a year or two, we sat before God and we just prayed. It was amazing in the way that God would provide for us every single day. He would provide the income and after that time of praying, that’s when us girls began writing songs and started getting the passion for music and for the band. That’s when God harvested all of that, during the time of silence for us girls.

That was the most radical thing we’ve done as a family, praying six hours a day and trusting God. I mean it was so obviously God, I mean it was so Him. People hear the story and they say your dad left his job? He wasn’t thinking about his family. But when God says, Step Out, you have to do it. We probably would have missed what God had in store for us as a family if we wouldn’t have listened to Him and done that.