With more label and industry people around, it can get really bogged down. And I always wanted to maintain that control creatively. So yeah, because of that, we’ve always just chosen that if we can do it ourselves, we’ll just do it. We’re not going to wait on anyone else
So what does the form of creativity really look like that is unleashed when this doesn’t bog down? What happens when retrieval solves the connection problemCan I still make art that’s actually accomplishing the deepest core mission that I have, and get exposed to more people by having more partners?
For better or worse, there’s just something in me that feels like if you’re making loads and loads and loads of money off of the church, it feels like you’re exploiting people’s deepest sense of faith and identity. And that feels dirty.
And the only thing I can come up with is, like, as long as I really mean it, I’m okay to support my family with it. But it gets more scary the more people get involved. More hands are on the pie, and the bigger it gets, the more risk you end up feeling, like you’re exploiting faith, basically.
Because the kind of engagement that the church needs is diversity, chance encounters that you wouldn’t otherwise. But not random, it needs an intentionality. Like you’re investing in something together, gardening as a community.Chad: I think we will always be regrettably, painfully, successfully DIY. And that’s just because of my freaking parents man, they’re so hardcore. My mom’s side is these, like, Scandinavian bulldogs. They do everything themselves, build their own houses, fix their own cars, fix their neighbors’ houses, cook their whole communities food. They just do everything, so it’s just in me. My dad’s side is pretty much the same thing. I just grew up probably grinding a little more than a lot of my friends. And so that’s just part of who I am. It comes into the Kings thing, and it attracts a certain type of people who want to do that, and it keeps back the other people who don’t want to do it.
