{"id":646,"date":"2009-03-25T11:47:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T11:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/03\/free-christian-music-download-26.html"},"modified":"2009-03-25T11:47:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T11:47:11","slug":"free-christian-music-download-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2009\/03\/free-christian-music-download-26.html","title":{"rendered":"Free Christian Music Download of Brian Bates&#8217; &#8220;You Danced&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SyL0RT5brMk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SyL0RT5brMk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object>Indie artist Brian Bates released his latest video to media outlets last week, and I wanted to share it with you because I just loved the song and footage. The song, &#8220;You Danced,&#8221; was inspired by Bates&#8217; recent trip to the province of Bo, in Sierra Leone in Africa. &#8220;Seven of the guys in my men&#8217;s group traveled with me to Bo, one of the poorest regions in the world,&#8221; says Bates. &#8220;We got to the first village, with no running water and no electricity; I&#8217;m talking the poorest of the poor. And there are all the residents waiting outside the village to greet us with singing &#038; dancing! I jumped out of the van and danced with the Africans! It was amazing. Amidst those desperate conditions, I couldn&#8217;t believe they had joy. They clearly share some secret with Heaven that I don&#8217;t fully understand. It&#8217;s the very secret Paul talks about in Philippians 4:12 of having contentment in every circumstance. That&#8217;s when I got the idea for the lyrics to &#8216;You Danced.&#8217; As much as I thought we were going to help the Africans, it turns out they are giving even more back to me, and teaching me about the true source of joy.&#8221;Regular readers of this blog will remember <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2008\/11\/christian-artist-brian-bates-s.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brian&#8217;s very well written and heartfelt response to both Ray Boltz and Clay Aiken coming out of the closet. <\/a>His response spurred a lot of discussion both on this blog and his website.You can learn more about Brian Bates and get a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brian-bates.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">free download of the song &#8220;You Danced&#8221; by visiting Brian Bates&#8217; website.<\/a><em>Get the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gospel Soundcheck <\/a>headlines delivered daily to your email inbox. 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