Ben Harper from the INSIDE OUT

“I wasn’t raised in the Church, but I’ve always had a church deep in my heart,” Harper says.

I ask Harper if the creative process for his gospel songs differs from his approach to other music.

“It’s just what comes out in waves, and I write it because that’s what’s there,” he says. “I’ve never sat down and thought, ‘I’m going to write a gospel song now,’ but it runs with itself and drags me until the end. It’s not denominational; it’s just wherever it takes me.”

This, from a recent interview with Ben Harper and Relevant Magazine speaks volumes to me. I often wonder if Christians speak/act Christian one day and something else another. If they live two lives, own 2 vocabularies, defined by 2 dictionaries. I love this quote b/c it says something I believe everyone needs to be - themselves.
They can't fake it or manufacture it. If what they have found in God is true then it would resonate according to how God made them and is changing them. Resonate from the inside out. In the office as much as at the kitchen table, in a church gathering as much as on the golf course. I'm not saying these environments need to be equal or equally spiritual, but I hope to be ME, how God made me, but also how God is changing me in all those environments.