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In this episode myself, Chris Bellamy, and Bryan Lopez got to talk with John Mark McMillan about:
- What’s going on in his life now.
- His latest live recording.
- His songwriting process, how he combines beautiful lyrics with strong theology.
- How we need to be open to what God’s doing with our own songwriting process.
- The philosophy behind his songwriting.
- How God comes out of his music through having more God in his life rather than writing songs explicitly about God.
- How the art of songwriting is very much a habit and a practice.
- What inspires him in his songwriting.
- The balance between family life and touring.
- The artists and musicians that he feels most influenced by.
- The songs he’s written that have been most influential for him.
- His sense of where worship and christian music is going.
- How his concerts involve pointing people to God but aren’t necessarily considered a worship event.
- The concept of worship not being just a time for singalongs.
- The guitars he’s been using lately.
- The double microphone seen in many of his recordings.
- The advent of the Rototom.
- How the live recording night went and what God did in it.
- Setting yourself up for a career in songwriting and discipling others.
