God bless

BH: And could you talk about how your tour bus runs for a minute?

AW: Yeah, it runs on vegetable oil, which we get from restaurants when they’re done frying food in it. We collect it, and then we filter it and heat it, and we put it through our diesel engine, which is what the diesel engine is built for. Right now, most of them run off petroleum-based diesel, of course, and we know that that’s running out. And, also, we hear that there are wars being fought over who has control of oil, and that’s another thing that I don’t want to be a part of. At present, I don’t think there are any wars being fought over waste vegetable oil. But, of course, who knows what’s going to happen? But, right now, I think a more sustainable answer is not relying on automobiles as much as we do. If we’re a band playing locally, maybe we can ride our bikes and travel around. Maybe we can play acoustically. It doesn’t have to look like this, where we go on a full U.S. tour and have big amps and all this merchandise. We’re still fitting into this pattern of what bands do, and I’m kind of uncomfortable with that, but at the same time, we’re so steeped in that. We came out of that.

We built up our momentum before we had any of these convictions, so now it’s a question of, “How do we put on the breaks and start to rethink
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We’re still fitting into this pattern of what bands do, and I’m kind of uncomfortable with that, but at the same time, we’re so steeped in that…“How do we put on the breaks and start to rethink what it would look like if we were a band in Heaven? What would it look like if this world was the Kingdom of God?
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what it would look like if we were a band in Heaven? What would it look like if this world was the Kingdom of God? Would we be traveling around? Would people be waiting out here [outside the venue]?” I don’t know how it would look, and I’m not saying this is all wrong or this is evil, but there is a tendency for us to fall into these patterns that other people have laid out, and it’s so seldom that I ask, “Is this the most beautiful way to do it? Is this the most life-giving way? Is this the way that spreads the Gospel in the clearest and most true way? Or is this the way that helps me to get paid and boosts my ego and feeds my ambitions?” Right now, I feel like it’s a mixture, and I want to move toward the one and away from the other.