MercyMe - 2017 Dove Awards

[Music] well in here with a group that really needs no introduction because everybody knows that but y'all yeah please make welcome you know mercy means congratulations guys Congrats on your artist of the year and almost nomination but when tonight so congrats on that talk about okay we're talk about your music but I want to talk about your movie yeah yeah yeah is coming out that was previewed last night yeah yeah so tell us a little bit about that well we got approached about seven years ago somebody want to make a movie about the story behind I can only imagine and and it's all about it's my childhood had an abusive father that came to know Christ he was diagnosed with cancer when I was in high school and the song was written after he passed away by the time he passed away he was like like the godliest man I ever knew like his life completely turned around and so Dennis Quaid plays my dad let's see are you in it no no the guy that plays me it was Jean Valjean and lame is his Broadway before he took the parts okay we had to teach him how to dumb it way down sing all of stuff but Trace Adkins will either plays brickle our manager priscilla shirer plays like grandmother who named the van sit Mercy Me you get a real job no plays like oh I didn't see quite old enough March 16 2008 okay who's gonna be in all the theatres yeah yeah yeah it's a worldwide Lionsgate put it out yeah it is a real movie yeah yeah are you saving in it or he's seen out he seems like we've got he sings all that all the parts himself we worked with him for a while but he's so stinking good yeah he didn't need much help okay so as a man what are you all doing these things what's going on so hey I'm right in the middle of the tour supporting lifer our current record and just loving life honestly we kind of have about half the tour over with and will kind of settle into the holidays of our families we we're in Nashville we moved we moved to Franklin area all of you about everybody there Robin we still in Dallas we were Dallas everybody's there everybody's here yeah and you see if you had one 1416 yes yes I got five more 14 15 16 yeah yeah so you know from what age to life I've got 15 down to almost 15 to 2 or the so you like kind of draw the lot to see come on the bus this week that's exactly know how to find them and if you don't tell them how to find your staff and how to find you ah Mercy Me org I guess yes yes yeah yeah it's what the young kids are using the Internet yeah totally off subject I just came to me okay so we're in a culture right now not just our US culture but even the church culture where there seems to be a lot of divisions like what do you believe is the remedy and what are some practical things that you think that we can do to help heal it it's a great question I mean I I mean I guess the I don't want to sound cliche but it's like it's it's the keep is simply about Jesus my friend you know like I grew up in denominational stuff in the Bible Belt and you know and it's you know it's just trying to keep it about Jesus as much as we possibly can and that's sometimes we kind of complicated too much I mean in a I think we've lost the simplicity of the gospel of what Christ came to do and and yeah I mean it's it's a great question gosh it's a really good question I think like he said I mean Jesus is the way the truth and the life I think that the truth is bipartisan I think if we focus on that you know and not on our opinions or feelings but I focus on the truth anybody else you have anything else they want to say on that or anything come in amen well anyway thank you guys again yeah you do thank you for what you stand for thank you for your commitment your tenacity thank you for continuing to do it even when it's hard we know it's not glamorous yeah a think it is but you're still doing the work of the ministry so I want to say thank you for representing very well and thank you for the music that you're giving the art that you're delivering thank you for the movies you know and the other things that God has for you all of you so thank you for being faithful support them follow them pray for them [Music] you

Channel: CCM Magazine

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Rating: 4.875 out of 5

Keywords: MercyMe, Nicole C Mullen, Dove Awards, CCM Magazine

Id: OC2l6lXLGdI

Length: 6min 8sec (368 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 19 2017