So you were just a single solo guy. Just a solo guy. Yeah. Okay. How long were you in the industry performing and recording?

My first album was 1999. Oh, my goodness. That's kind of a long. And you left for what year?

My final tour was 2023, August of 2023. Okay. See, I like five years on the road and recording and did you become a

Christian after that? I mean, in the midst of all that, you weren't a Christian when you started

touring. I thought I was. I was a cultural Christian. I always thought, you know, grew up in a Christian home.

I'm from the Bible Belt, so always could have articulated the gospel and told you that I was a

believer. But it wasn't until later in my life when the Lord radically converted me through

tragedy, which does happen quite a bit.

Sure. Tragedy and suffering will test a faith, and you can see the genuineness of that faith

through that suffering, and I didn't have any.

That's what I discovered.

And so when I became a Christian and really started reading the Bible for the first time,

and not just as a devotional or as like an instruction manual for my life,

but actually unfolding the narrative of God's people and what he has done

and who he is and who we are in relation to who he is. I started seeing some inconsistencies in my life,

and part of that was, I'm a singer exalting myself every day, and I don't know how that's reconciling

with taking up my cross. Yeah, yeah. Well, I think you can be a performer and do a good job, but the mentality and attitude is really hard to manage.

You know, I mean, this is something that people in my business have to deal with.

So if you get better known and people come up to you and they, even, even Amy yesterday, Amy Hall.

So you know who Amy Hall is?

I don't think so.

Oh, okay.

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