Page 136: Chad Mattson
The Unfolding
Northwestern Media
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🗓️ 26 August 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Chad Mattson is best known as the lead singer of the band Unspoken. For nearly 20 years he's been touring the country, writing hit songs like "Reason," "Call it Grace," and "Start a Fire." But before he set foot on a stage or realized that music was going to be a part of his life, Chad was living under the weight of contradiction. He knew God was real, he'd felt His presence. Yet his life was driven by addiction. From cigarettes, to alcohol, to drugs, to living in drug houses, his addictions grew stronger. He moved further away from the life God wanted for him and spent every day chasing the next fix.
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| 0:00.0 | Page 136 of the unfolding is the story of Chad Mattson. |
| 0:04.6 | So I'm an addict and I have spent six days sober in three years. |
| 0:08.3 | I think the difference between me and a heroin addict is that I wasn't going to wind up dead in the morning. |
| 0:13.6 | But still all day, every day, drive two and a half hours if I didn't have any. |
| 0:17.0 | That was my life, 100% my life. |
| 0:20.2 | God's story has been unfolding. |
| 0:22.6 | Since the beginning of time. |
| 0:25.6 | He invites you to be a part of it. |
| 0:28.6 | Another page in the unfolding. |
| 0:47.3 | Hi, this is Meredith Foster. |
| 0:51.7 | Chad Matson is best known as the lead singer of the band Unspoken. |
| 0:55.6 | For nearly 20 years, making music's been a big part of Chad's life, |
| 1:01.9 | touring the country, loads of hit songs like reason, call it grace, start a fire. But before he ever set foot on a stage or even realized that music was going to be a part of his life, |
| 1:06.4 | Chad was living under the weight of contradiction. He knew God was real. He'd felt his presence, |
| 1:12.2 | and yet his life was driven by addiction, from cigarettes to alcohol to drugs, to living in drug |
| 1:18.4 | houses. His addictions grew stronger and he moved further and further away from the life |
| 1:23.2 | God wanted for him. What started out as fun, gradually took control of his life, and he spent |
| 1:28.2 | every day chasing the next fix. What kind of a kid were you? I was, I would say a good-hearted kid. |
| 1:36.4 | I've always had kind of a tender heart and always loved, you know, the least of these, like, |
| 1:42.5 | whatever they were in my community, like didn't. |
| 1:46.3 | I mean, of course, I had friends that were normal, but I also had a lot of friends that |
| 1:50.1 | weren't normal. |
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