INTERVIEW: Jars of Clay On Being Good Monsters

In our December issue, Jars of Clay revealed the themes behind their latest release, Good Monsters. Here is more from the band about their efforts to serve Christ by serving people in Africa through Blood:Water Mission. Breakaway: Can you speak a little about the history of your involvement with mission-type projects and how that came to be? Steve: I believe God “births” in our hearts passions for stuff and I think the sense of fighting for what is just, the Bible calling us to ‘love mercy’ and fight injustice – it’s in there. Like a lot of biblical truth, they aren’t embodied until we experience them firsthand. I think some trips that were taken within the group really stirred our hearts toward the idea that God has redeemed the church and His church is in the world and His church is not just in Tennessee, in my community, but God through Jesus has redeemed people the world over. That’s where it started with us. It was a worldview change. […read more]

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