Page 2: Steven Curtis Chapman
The Unfolding
Northwestern Media
4.9 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Page two of the unfolding is the story of Stephen Curtis Chapman. |
| 0:04.5 | I began to look back and go, well, duh, no wonder I have this compelling drive to try to fix what's broken because that's what I was born to do. |
| 0:13.6 | Literally, that's kind of what I was brought into the world to do. |
| 0:16.9 | God's story has been unfolding. |
| 0:20.2 | Since the beginning of time. |
| 0:22.6 | He invites you to be a part of it. |
| 0:29.6 | Another page in the unfolding. Hi, this is Meredith Foster. |
| 0:43.9 | Stephen Curtis Chapman is one of the most successful Christian artists of all time. |
| 0:48.3 | When he wrote a memoir a few years ago, he realized he was also something else. |
| 0:52.3 | He was Mr. Fix It, a guy who felt compelled to fix what was |
| 0:56.9 | broken, to be a peacekeeper, to make people happy. In many ways, music was an arena that allowed him to do |
| 1:03.1 | that. But in his personal life, he came face to face with brokenness that could not be repaired, |
| 1:09.0 | including tragedy that left his family with a heartache |
| 1:11.8 | so deep, it can't be fixed the sight of heaven. So what happens to the faith of Mr. Fixit when you |
| 1:18.6 | face the unfixable? Here's Stephen Curtis Chapman. So one of the things that you talk about from a very |
| 1:24.1 | early age you felt compelled to fix things and kind of grew up with that identity |
| 1:29.2 | as Mr. Fixit. What did it look like being Mr. Fixit early in your life? And why do you think |
| 1:34.8 | you felt compelled to be that way? I have learned a lot about that in myself, watching my own |
| 1:41.9 | children and kind of my own story now as a parent, you know, I have children, |
| 1:48.1 | particularly, you know, there's certain ones that are more wired that way to fix, to be the |
| 1:54.7 | peacemaker, to be the, you know, rule follower, please, you know, you show me where, you know, show me where the |
| 2:01.8 | boundaries are and I'm going to operate, you know, well within that so that I can, you know, |
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