#91: Special Edition: A Conversation with Steven Curtis Chapman

Allen Jackson Ministries

Ben Hayes

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🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week, Pastor Allen speaks with Christian artist Steven Curtis Chapman, who has been a fixture of the Christian Contemporary genre for decades. As Steven prepares to lead worship at the World Outreach Summer Festival, he shares about his faith journey, and the circumstances that led him into the music industry. Steven is currently on a drive-in theater tour with fellow artists Michel W. Smith and Mac Powell, and you can find their tour dates at https://stevencurtischapman.com/.

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0:00.0	My guest today is Stephen Curtis Chapman.
0:07.0	Welcome.
0:08.0	Thanks.
0:09.0	You've been a part of around the church a lot of times through the years, but it's a treat to have you back we were
0:13.5	talking a little bit before we started this formally and you were talking about how
0:16.2	you got into music in Nashville feels like to me everybody in the music business
0:20.0	starts doing something else than what they end up doing.
0:23.0	You know, playing something or sweeping or cleaning something.
0:25.4	Yeah, so tell us a little bit how that happened.
0:27.4	Well, I was, my first job in Nashville was at an amusement park called Opryland USA.
0:34.0	I remember Opry Land.
0:36.0	There is.
0:37.0	It's been gone for a few years now.
0:38.0	I like the better than the mall, honestly.
0:40.0	I know they turned it into Shopry Land.
0:42.0	We used to call it, yeah, when they got rid of the park and it had a few rides but it had mostly it was known for its live music and had awesome live music shows all around the park country music and you know they had a 50s show that a lot of artists and a lot of
0:56.2	musicians that went on to play professionally I was in a country music show just
1:02.0	out of high school I graduated from high school in 1981 got a
1:04.9	summer job at Opryland with my brother and I was in a show with guys that went on to start the
1:10.8	group Diamond Rio, Marty Rowe,
1:13.0	and all those guys had great success in country music.
1:17.0	And so I've, yeah, I've known a lot of,
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