MercyMe Releases New Album: ‘Jesus Is the One Thing That Matters’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Christian band MercyMe recently released a new album, Always Only Jesus, and shared what they want listeners to take away from the music.
“This record is the songs that are hopefully pointing directly at Jesus and saying, this is the one thing that matters,” MercyMe guitarist Michael John Scheuchzer explained. “We can disagree about everything else in the world, but as believers, if we can come together and point to Him and agree on Him, then we can really see some change in the world.”
Frontman Bart Millard shared that Always Only Jesus has one real theme: Jesus must come first.
“After the pandemic…it feels like the body of Christ went through a very divisive time,” Millard explained. “Just a crazy time and fear manifesting itself in different ways.”
He continued, “We had friends we go to church with that drew some pretty hard lines in the sand and became very passionate about different things, and now that things are kind of getting back to normal, some are pretending it never happened. Some are trying to walk things back. Some are trying to explain where their stance is.”
“I don’t know how much healing is in that versus we need to find the common denominator —that’s Jesus,” Millard concluded. “That’s the only thing that’s going to unify the Body of Christ. This one’s more about … it really is about Jesus!”
Millard also spoke about the concept of “deconstruction”: a current movement that describes “deconstructing” one’s faith and leaving the church. Deconstruction inspired one of MercyMe’s new songs, “To Not Worship You.”
“The whole deconstructing of faith became like the flavor of the month. It felt like,” Millard shared. “Having conversations about all that, especially the deconstructing of faith, we know people have gone through it. I’m like, I think we’ve all asked the same kind of questions like why do bad things happen to good people? But I just didn’t get an Instagram account and start talking about it that much.”
He continued, “I think we’ve always kicked the tires of our faith, but it doesn’t necessarily mean we’re stepping away from it. The song [“To Not Worship You”] for us, personally, it was like, ‘Oh, yeah, I have doubts, I wonder, I question a lot of things, but the one thing is it’s to stop and actually remember, ‘Oh, You’re the God that moves mountains.’ Eventually, it’s like, who am I to ever think of not worshiping you if I truly understand who You are?”
MercyMe also brought attention to another one of their new songs, “Better Days.”
“We were seeing the stats of depression and suicide and all that stuff and divorce rate because people literally having to be in under one roof for so long,” Millard said. “The one thing that I kept going back to and I’d written it down a few times was, ‘The hands that are holding tomorrow are still holding on to us.’”
He went on to remind people that better days are coming in Christ, saying that it “was the only message” in his heart.
Always Only Jesus is available to stream here.
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