Casting Crowns’ Frontman Mark Hall Slammed Lazy Christianity while calling believers to action in a recent interview with the Christian Post
Mark Hall says the band hopes their new album, The Very Next Thing, will encourage Christians to step out of their comfort zone and seek God’s plan for their life.
When talking about the title track of the album, Hall said just as the Bible does in Scripture, the band also wants to remind people that there is a next step for everyone.
He told the Christian Post, ”All through Scripture we see that all of us believers are in a different stage of next, there’s a next step for us, and that’s something that we ought to be doing. We’re a great generation which is great in many ways, but it’s lazy in many ways too.”
The Georgia native said the title chosen for the record was intended to counter the feelings of bondage that many believers are trapped in. He said, ”I think most believers get this feeling that they’re stuck. That they’ve made a couple of bad decisions some years ago and now there’s no way to get back,”
Hall pointed out, Anytime Jesus ever approached anyone in Scripture, they were a wreck, they were a mess, and He never told one of them to go back and fix it, because you can’t. He never told anyone to go back and undo and make up for it. What He told them to do was, ‘Follow me from here.’
Hall is a youth leader at Eagle’s Landing First Baptist Church in south Atlanta, and says he frequently discusses this topic with his family and the families he ministers to.