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Shaun released seven songs off of his debut album to different radio formats with Welcome Home and Should I Tell Them going to number 1.
Links...
Did You Know?
Shaun released seven songs off of his debut album to different radio formats with Welcome Home and Should I Tell Them going to number 1.
MQ: When you sit down and ponder God what things amaze you about Him?
Shaun: I think how much I don't know. It's something kind of new to me - like I've always been 'the answer guy.' I was always the guy in Sunday School class that would raise his hand and knew the answer. In school I was a pretty good student and always took above level courses, so I'm real comfortable if I know everything. It's where I'm comfortable in life. No matter what I'm doing, I read all I can about it. I study it. I analyze it. I get a computer, man, I read the entire manual. I go surf the Internet for anything. I want to tap it for everything it's got in it. I want to learn everything about it, you know? Everything I do...I do that with. I got married...I read every book I could on how to have a great marriage. When I had kids, I wanted to read every way there is to raise a kid, you know? Everything that happens in life, I learn - so that I can master it...and God - I will never master - and that frustrates me....but it's such a humbling place to be, to know that I can never know all of whom God is. I teach a Bible study at our church for eighteen to twenty-five year olds on Thursday nights and I routinely come across pieces of Scripture I can't explain - stuff that I just can't wrap my brain around. And that's the most amazing thing about God, that He told us everything He really wants us to know but that you could never fully understand Him. Our brains are too small. There are too many questions that are going to be unanswered when I die. I guess that's what I'll spend eternity doing - trying to find out the answers. (laughing)
MQ: You said you studied religion in college...is it that you wanted to get into the Word and understand it...?
Shaun: I really wanted to understand...I never really felt like church went deep enough for me. Church and Christian music and Christian books all have the same problem. We are all turning out product for the lowest common denominator. We don't want to leave anyone behind, so we just dumb down everything. 
In that sense, we're no different than Jerry Springer. We figured out that it's hard to make money or get people to come to your shows or get people to fill the seats of your church unless you underestimate their intelligence. We have figured out that what sells best - what gets people to show up - is underestimating their intelligence. It's the most profitable thing to do. George Bernard Shaw once said, 'No one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American people.' It's true. And I grew up in that kind of a church that just said, 'I know you're smarter than this but not everybody is - so we're going to make it simple.' But not everybody is as dumb as they thought they were, you know? I try to raise the bar on that a little bit.