While Mac has enjoyed a long career doing what he loves and connecting fans to faith, he credits his parents’ love of music for setting him on the path that led to the platform he now has. “When I’m in communion with those three things: the Word, the Spirit and the church, I’m a different person. “One is God’s Holy Spirit – and you really receive that through prayer, and seeking Him through prayer and listening for him – and the third thing is the body of Christ, the church. “One is the scriptures, the Bible,” Mac said. To get out of that rut, Mac adopted what he refers to as his “three medicines”: a series of must-have daily markers that lay the foundation for his spiritual and social wellbeing. I just remained, as I call it, a ‘baby Christian’ for a long time.” Source: Official Mac Powell Facebook “I wasn’t, I didn’t really grow in my faith. “I really believed the truth of the gospel but it didn’t really change my life. “I made a confession of faith at an early age and I meant it,” Mac said. It’s the difference between making a “surrendered heart connection” to God, and your belief in Him being a simple religious act. What Mac’s describing, when he talks about settling verse embracing all God has for us in life, is the difference between a faith that stops at receiving salvation through Jesus and one that digs into the scriptures and applies them to our lives.

“I don’t want people to settle for less, because you don’t have to. And I don’t want people to settle for less, because you don’t have to. “The reason I know that message is because I missed out on so much of what I could have through my faith, I settled for less. “Jesus said, ‘I have come into this world to give you life, and life abundantly’ ( John 10:10), and I think so often people in general – whether they’re believers of not – miss out on this abundant, and ‘more’ of real life, because we get caught up in other things. “The second, underneath that umbrella message of faith, is living an abundant life. “There’s a lot of seasons in life where you have different things you want to share, but overall for me, the umbrella of the message is one, about my faith,” Mac said. So what are the ideas Mac wrestles with, and the discoveries he wants to help listeners make through his music? “As a ‘veteran’ songwriter who’s been around for a long time, I’ve realised about almost every thing in life: you’re never going to figure it out,” he said. In all that time, Mac said there’s still so much of life he’s “yet to work out” and a lot of it he believes he “never will”.

First as the co-founder and front man of Christian rock band Third Day, then as a solo artist releasing two country albums, and now with his first Christian solo project, New Creation. Mac Powell has been a mainstay of the Christian music industry for over three decades.

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