Now That He’s a Christian, Lowery Shares How This Tour Was Different From Other Tours
Lowery shared that this tour with Sevendust was different from previous tours because it was the first time he has toured since giving his life to Jesus. “[I talked] to my pastor and talking about how am I going to re-enter this world [because] if you look from the outside, you know some of the messages and the old songs, they’re not really aligned with some of the beliefs I have today,” he said.
“I do believe that there is a reason that all of this happened, I think, going into that environment. I know my [bandmates] are good guys. They’re sinners and they make mistakes—I was one of the worst of them,” he said. “So I just used the opportunity to take in my relationship [with Jesus] to the tour.”
“They didn’t feel a critical spirit from me, which I’m sure at first they [expected, that] he’s going to come in Bible-thumping on this and all this, and it was the opposite,” Lowery said. “It was more of just like, you know, we all have these little barriers sometimes [because] we’re around each other a lot. There could be tensions, and there could be all these different things, and I just try to melt through them as much as possible.”
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Lowery admitted that this mindset required him to get “rid of some of my ego, some of my fears, being courteous and considerate when I could, being quiet when they needed to be quiet. And I don’t need to gossip and join in.” Lowery said that it is very easy to “get negative, really quick on tour.” So he “just tried to be a light. I tried to be a little bit more positive.”
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“I never tried to stand on a soapbox or preach to anybody,” he said. “Lajon asked me to lead a couple of the prayers before the shows and that was an honor, because I really felt for him to ask me to do [so] was him acknowledging that he saw that I was on my journey.”
Lowery said that nothing really changed out on the tour, except his “perception of it and the way I responded to it” by making it a “better and more peaceful tour despite still going through some weird physical stuff.”
One big change for Lowery was his ability to rely on prayer to help him through times of fear and anxiety. “Instead of worrying, I could pray, instead of soaking in my own stuff, I could help someone else and get out of it,” he said.
Sevendust Bandmates Have Been Supportive of Lowery’s New Relationship With Jesus
Lowery said that his Sevendust bandmates have been supportive of his new relationship with Jesus. Although they were skeptical at first, he explained, they wanted to believe the genuineness of his faith.
“Anything that was going to give me relief, based on what I was going through, and they saw it work,” Lowery said, “and they saw that I had this fear that was all-consuming, just overwhelming, and they saw me not have that. And they saw that I give myself to God and Christ.”
Lowery hopes in the future that conversations will allow for him to share more about his relationship with Jesus with his bandmates. This tour he said, “I didn’t engage in” those conversations. However, Lowery shared he would refer to the Bible when they were having conversations about topics he knew contradicted his newfound faith.
“I had some knowledge, finally, and that felt great,” Lowery added. “I had something to stand on in terms ‘I have faith and this is why.’”
Lowery told ChurchLeaders that he is realizing that God is using him as a vessel to spread the gospel, so he has a responsibility to learn. “The knowledge is his, [but it’s] my responsibility as a Christian to be armed with those facts, armed with those, that knowledge that God is using me [so it can] filter through,” he said.
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“I was taking so much credit for anything good in my life,” Lowery said. “I was taking credit for my music. I was taking credit for all good or bad data was…I was taking credit for stuff instead of saying, ‘God gave me the gift of music, gave me the gift of hearing things, and being able to express it through music and I don’t.’” Lowery expressed that he now feels “so much better just letting him be glorified and acknowledged.”
