A few years ago, I connected with this guy on Twitter. He was the drummer for a band from Kentucky called 7eventh Time Down. I HATED getting those random band requests and almost blew him off. But something told me to give this one a chance. I’m so glad I did! Shortly after “meeting” him, I volunteered to create an EPK site for them. For weeks I was completely immersed in their music and in their story. But all it took was just a few notes of one song and I was hooked! I could not believe these guys were not signed! Fast forward two years and here we are the day after their debut album release on BEC Records! 
It’s been so great to be a part of the journey with these guys thus far and I can’t wait to see what their future holds.
Allow me, though, to back up just a little bit. Recently I was hit with this idea, as the guys had just signed with the label and were working on getting their album out. I’ve always had a huge heart for promotions and have toyed with the idea several times of going into it professionally. Any time I find a band I believe in, I do all I can to promote them. Most bands these days actually have their very own “Street Team”. It’s a group of fans who go above and beyond just buying CDs. They work to help spread the word about the band.
I knew these guys needed to have a Street Team but what could they call themselves? Then as I’m listening to their song, “World Changer”, it hits me….THAT’S IT!
I actually help run another ministry and our philosophy is that it only takes one person to change the world. It’s so true! The past few days I’ve been more aware of the people around me and how they behave. I’ve realized that we as a society (and yes I am absolutely included in that!) are so worried about ourselves, we don’t take time to think about the people around us. Well it’s time for us to start!
God’s really been working in me lately, especially in the wake of the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, and He has given me a heart for the ministry that I’m involved in. I feel Him using me to help the people around me realize that all it takes is one person to change someone’s day. All it takes is one person to change someone’s life. All it takes is one person to change the world. We all have the potential to be world changers. We just need to realize it, accept it, and listen for God to tell us how. We need to take responsibility, not just for ourselves, but for the people around us.
I wrote a blog post a while back about this guy who came in where I work and started shooting questions at me about how I go about reading the Bible. He gave me a Bible verse to read and warned me it would be difficult but challenged me to not give up on it until I get something from it. To this day, I still don’t get it but I did learn something from it. I learned that if a Bible verse is difficult for you to understand, try applying it to your life. Don’t try to adapt to the text. Make the text adapt to you. We all do it. Pick any Bible verse and ask 5 people what they think it means. I guarantee you you’ll get 5 different answers.
So today, the guy comes in again. He asks if I ever figured out the last text. I tell him no. Then he says, “I have something for you.” He writes something on a piece of paper and hands it to me. He tells me, “This one will be much easier for you to get. This one is clear as can be!” He then proceeded to tell me about how the end is near, and honestly, he got a little too passionate for me. He told me he wasn’t just making stuff up…that it was right there, plain as day in the verses he wrote down for me to read. After he left I looked up the verses and I can see where he was coming from, but at the same time I took it to mean something completely different. Even when the text itself was plain as day, I still adapted it to my own life and my own beliefs.
We have to do the same thing in life. This world is not our home. We spend so much time trying to adapt to the world, but what we should be doing is making the world adapt to us, so that one day when we reach the gates of Heaven, we will be well equipped to enter.
We are God’s Street Team! It is our duty as Christians to “promote” Him! It is our duty to spread the love of God. That doesn’t mean preaching up and down the streets throwing the Bible in peoples’ faces. It simply means putting others before ourselves. Serving others in any way that we can.
My absolute favorite lyric from 7eventh Time Down actually comes from their song, World Changer. It says:
Every day is a melody. A new song You have given me to sing, because You love me.
Every day is a chance for us to share love and encouragement with others. It’s a song He has given us to sing. What if we didn’t sing it? Yes, every day is a gift…something we’ve been given for free. But it means nothing if we don’t use it.
God gave you a song. How will you sing it back to Him? I encourage you all to become World Changers! Not for yourself, not for me, not for 7eventh Time Down…but for God. It really is that simple.
One life can change the world!
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