{"id":44064,"date":"2022-10-31T09:10:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T14:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mbcpathway.com\/?p=44064"},"modified":"2022-10-31T09:11:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T14:11:49","slug":"steven-curtis-chapman-bares-soul-in-latest-i-am-second-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mbcpathway.com\/2022\/10\/31\/steven-curtis-chapman-bares-soul-in-latest-i-am-second-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Curtis Chapman bares soul in latest \u2018I Am Second\u2019 film"},"content":{"rendered":"

PLANO, Texas (BP) \u2013<\/strong> Halfway between Possum Trot and Monkey\u2019s Eyebrow, Ky., \u2013 Paducah, that is \u2013 Steven Curtis Chapman grew up hearing his father intervene with prayer when family discord arose.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember as a little boy hearing my dad pray prayers like, \u2018God, I don\u2019t know how to be a good father or a good husband \u2018cause I didn\u2019t have a dad in my life. But you\u2019re my Father now, and will you please teach me how to do that?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so, as a little guy,\u201d Chapman said, \u201cI got to see the change that Jesus would make in a heart, and in a life in my own dad and my mom, and my whole family. It didn\u2019t fix everything, \u2026 we were still a mess. But there was this hope.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chapman shares a snippet of his journey in the latest \u201cI Am Second<\/a>\u201d short film, a series of video testimonies featuring a diversity of Christian celebrities.<\/p>\n

His testimony comes just weeks after the Oct. 14 release of \u201cStill,\u201d his latest album in a decades-long career distinguishing him as the most awarded artist in Christian music history.<\/p>\n

Describing himself as a \u201cfixer,\u201d his testimony also comes 14 years after a personal family tragedy he couldn\u2019t fix, the accidental\u00a0death of his 5-year-old daughter<\/a>\u00a0Maria Sue, hit by an SUV driven by Chapman\u2019s own teenage son on a roadway in front of the family\u2019s Franklin, Tenn., home.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been 14 years of a journey with my family of grief and questions and confusion and anger and God are we going to survive this? How are we going to survive this?\u201d Chapman said in the video. \u201cFor a guy who\u2019s a fixer, to ultimately face the most unfixable thing you could ever imagine as a parent, as a husband \u2013 How am I going to lead my family through this \u2013 knowing that most marriages and families don\u2019t survive the loss of a child, because grief and that kind of grief is so devastating?\u201d<\/p>\n

Maria Sue\u2019s death had come at one of the highest moments in Chapman\u2019s life in May 2008. Just hours previously, Chapman celebrated his oldest daughter Emily\u2019s engagement. The family was planning to celebrate his son Caleb\u2019s high school graduation. \u201cMountains and Valleys\u201d is the video\u2019s title.<\/p>\n

He speaks of mountaintops beyond anything he \u201ccould have ever imagined\u201d and \u201cvery, very, very deep valleys, deeper\u201d than he \u201cever could have imagined.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cReally my songs have just been kind of tearing pages out of my journal of my life and saying this is what I\u2019m learning, this is what I\u2019m struggling with,\u201d Chapman said. \u201cTaking three steps forward I take two steps back, some days 20 steps back. And I\u2019m going to talk to you about that journey as honestly and as vulnerably as I can.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chapman\u2019s songs include 49 No. 1 singles and have won him five Grammys and 59 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards. He\u2019s sold 11 million albums, including 10 gold or platinum works. But his admirers view him as relatable.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe feel like when you sing, it might not be the greatest voice that makes us stop in our tracks, or whatever,\u201d he said many have told him, \u201cbut you kind of feel like a friend just sitting down in the car beside me, just telling me your story and encouraging me in my journey.\u201d<\/p>\n

He describes the adoption as one of the most amazing parts of his journey with wife Mary Beth, offering challenges and blessings as they navigated life with three biological and three adopted children.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many ways I\u2019ve wrestled and had to say OK God, I don\u2019t get this,\u201d Chapman said. \u201cAnd yet in all of this journey, the more I understand about who God is, the more I learn is that He says, \u2018bring all of it to me. I already know it anyway, I\u2019m God. I already know you\u2019re angry. I already know you\u2019re confused. I already know all of that. Will you just come to me? And will you trust me.\u201d<\/p>\n

He is strengthened by the fact that God knows everything, and that \u201cwe only see a little part of the story.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that\u2019s what we have held onto. That\u2019s what I have held onto, as a dad, as a husband, as a follower of Jesus, the story is not over yet, that I only see this little part.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the promises of God that there\u2019s a day coming when He\u2019s going to wipe every tear from our eyes. He\u2019s going to make all the things that are broken whole again, and He\u2019s not going to waste any part of our story.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chapman\u2019s testimony and others produced by the Texas-based non-profit ministry \u201cI Am Second\u201d are available\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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