In a recent social media post, Sevendust guitarist Clint Lowery shared that he just completed his first tour as a “saved Christian.”
Sevendust is one of most well-known American rock bands in its genre. Since 1994, long-time bandmates Lowery, Lajon Witherspoon, Morgan Rose, John Connolly, and Vinnie Hornsby have recorded 14 studio albums, sold millions of records, and been nominated for a Grammy Award. The band recently finished touring with Disturbed and Three Days Grace.
ChurchLeaders asked Lowery to share more about what God has been doing in his life.
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Lowery said that he grew up in a Christian household. His grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and his grandmother loved Jesus. So there was “a foundation there [and] an early beginning of relationship with God and Christ and the Bible,” Lowery said.
However, Lowery admitted that he never had a real relationship with Jesus until this past year.
In 2007, Lowery reconnected with God after going through an addiction recovery program but even then said he still wasn’t “in the Bible” or “building that relationship” with Jesus.
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“This past year, I’ve learned through my life that God uses suffering, in particular with me, as a good way to humble me,” Lowery shared. Lowery said he had relied on God in the midst of hardship but would end up taking over the control once things were better.
Lowery said he’d go “through the prayers” but wasn’t “committed to a fellowship in my community, [and wasn’t] being of service to others.” He said, “I was just kind of doing what I think is the next right thing.”
It wasn’t until after a major medical health scare that Lowery surrendered his life to Jesus.
“I saw four neurologists. No one could tell me exactly what was going on,” Lowery shared. “No friends or family at that point could help me, because I thought I was basically going to face one of the worst things you could face in terms of a [neurological] disease.”
Lowery continued, “I was at a place in my life where I surrendered it all to God and Christ [and] I immediately started reading the Bible.” God used Lowery’s neighbor, Jody, who is a pastor, to help guide him through understanding God’s plan of salvation and his need for Jesus.
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“He asked me if I had been saved, and I couldn’t answer the question,” Lowery said. “And when I really looked internally I was like, I haven’t.” Jody then “explained to me what that meant.” It was at that moment that Lowery said he “with my whole heart and my whole mind gave my life to Jesus Christ.”
Since then, Lowery has been baptized and started studying the Bible. He attends Bible studies and has found mentors who can help him understand Scripture better.
Lowery admitted that when he started reading the Bible it was, and still is at times, “confusing—it’s a little over in my head.” But Lowery said that “when I’m in the Word, the fear starts lifting, the anxiety starts lifting, and I just start really having this connection. I started seeing my encounters with other people change.”
After giving his life to Christ, Lowery said he had a “preconceived notion that I needed to go immediately and start doing good works.”
“Let me go give some charity. Let me try to just put on a smiley face for as many people as possible,” he said. But he shared that he “realized through the Scripture and through the readings that it wasn’t about the good works…It was about the relationship and the grace that Jesus Christ died for us and he’s already paid that. He’s already done that.”
“Doing the good works is a great thing,” Lowery clarified. “Goodwill [and] loving thy neighbor. That’s amazing, and that is absolutely what we’re put here to do, but it was more about just realizing I am a sinner [and] that I have no control over what I’ve done.”
Lowery referred to Jesus as his “savior,” adding that when “I do sin, which I will, I repent and then I try to grow, and that’s what I’m doing, man, and I’ve been thirsty for it, and every opportunity I get to talk about [Jesus] I do.”
“It just makes me grateful that I have that today and that he is a merciful God,” Lowery said.
