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Jesus, Religion, & Technology

Some friends of ours released a video several weeks ago called “Why I hate Religion but Love Jesus” we all sat in amazement as it reached 15 million views in a week. It’s created an amazing public discussion about issues of theology, faith, hypocrisy, legalism, self righteousness and well… Jesus and religion.

(Matthew Robertson aka CIK productions did a lot of editing and shooting of this… His production can be heard on our BreaxOver mixtapes)

It’s also been wild to see Jeff become a YouTube star virtually overnight and how he’s done an amazing job stewarding his platform in humility. Who he is outside of the video has been more inspirational then the actual video to us. His humble response to critics has been extremely convicting and challenging to me personally.

Seeing how our faith has become a target for some is interesting as well.
I found this Islam response to Jeff very well executing and articulated well.

Then another friend of ours did a response to the Islam response video. IV who’s worked closely with our long time producer DJ Rek released this video recently (which I also loved)

I think it’s pretty incredible that in 2012 we get to discuss topics millions of people over thousand of years have wrestled with. I think it’s even more incredible that technology has allowed us to do it in a very fresh & innovative way. All three of the videos are well shot & edited with some great typography. I’m honestly inspired and excited about the era we get to live in. This wasn’t possible 10 years ago or even 5 years ago.

It’s amazing the place culture is in. With all the discussion of faith, the social & religious climate is shifting, even the fame of unashamed christian athletes like Tebow and Jeremy Lin seems like something really cool is brewing.
This time last year Odd Future exploded on the pop scene and it felt like music & entertainment was in a much darker place, this year it seems like people have hope, faith and love for each other. Seems like people are asking questions only God can inspire. Let us know how as theBREAX we can better serve you & perhaps bring more clarity to some of the things you maybe wrestling with. And no, we won’t be releasing a response video about why we love Jesus & Technology.

Blessings

Ruslan

It is a Faith, not a genre

Shout out to the Homie Karl Nova for blogging this… a lot of people ask us what we label our music… this response from Jon Foreman of Switchfoot completely captures our heart… except we aren’t a rock band lol.

“For us, it’s a faith, not a genre. We’ve always been very open and honest about where the songs are coming from. For us, these songs are for everyone. Calling us ‘Christian rock’ tends to be a box that closes some people out and excludes them. And that’s not what we’re trying to do. Music has always opened my mind — and that’s what we want.”

“My faith, I mean, that’s such a personal aspect that a lot of times, of course it’s going to come out through the song. But at the same time, I’m not a religious salesman. I feel like God doesn’t really need a salesman, and what these songs are simply my interactions with this life and learning. I guess the bottom line is the songs are really honest, you know what I mean. That faith is going to come through. If the listener is looking for it, that’s definitely a part of it.”

“You’re boxing it in. I would like to think that the music that I make is best with claws and teeth, instead of being locked up in a cage. As a band we’ve always been very deliberate in making music for everyone. And we’ve never changed that. If we’re going to define our music it would just be honest music for thinking people. We’ve always called ourselves a rock band and tried to stay away from anything that would limit our audience. For me, my faith is a really personal, important part of my life, and it’s much bigger to me than a musical genre”

— Jon Foreman, lead vocalist of Switchfoot

Ozone Mag interview Lecrae & Tedashii [VIDEO]

If you guys ever had questions about our faith and how we want to use Hip-Hop music to help change the world check out this interview that Ozone Magazine did with Lecrae & Tedashii.
They communicate some great points about “secular music”, not condemning the world, and connecting with culture that capture our heart… especially from 7:15 to the end of the interview