Crown of Beauty Magazine The Mission Issue | Page 6

[MATTHEW WEST INTERVIEW]

Music on a mission

COB: “Would you mind sharing a bit of your testimony? When did you come to know Christ, and what was going on in your life to bring you to that point?”

Matthew: “I grew up in church, the son of a preacher.  I accepted Christ at the age of 13 when I prayed with my mom during a Billy Graham crusade on television.  That was a very real moment in my life when I knew God was calling me.  But for much of my childhood I treated my faith more like a family commitment, not a personal journey.  My time at college was another defining season where God called me into a more personal and deeper friendship with him.”

COB: “When did God finally lead you into the music ministry? Was it a mind-bomb moment, or did it come through a slow series of hints?”

Matthew: “Ironically, it was around the same time that I really began digging into my relationship with Christ in college that His calling on my life began to find clarity.  I used to dream of being a baseball player growing up, but that dream didn't come true, and I found out that sometimes we need our dreams to fall through so that we can get to the better dream that God has in store for us.  It was during my four years studying music in college that my dreams of music and songwriting came to life.”

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