{"id":40335,"date":"2024-10-04T07:48:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T11:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=40335"},"modified":"2024-10-04T07:48:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T11:48:36","slug":"how-this-rock-star-is-using-his-concerts-to-promote-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2024\/10\/how-this-rock-star-is-using-his-concerts-to-promote-christ.html","title":{"rendered":"How this Rock Star is Using His Concerts to Promote Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40311\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40311\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2024\/10\/brad-arnold_credit-Brandon-Nagy-Shutterstock.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40311\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2024\/10\/brad-arnold_credit-Brandon-Nagy-Shutterstock.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brandon Nagy \/ Shutterstock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>3 Doors Down\u2019s longevity, having formed in 1996, has given lead singer Brad Arnold a platform that he hopes to use for good. Arnold, a Christian, recently stopped a concert in Hersheypark Stadium in Pennsylvania to share the Gospel with his audience. \u201cThis world surrounds us with a message that we\u2019ll never be good enough, we\u2019ll never be strong enough, we\u2019ll never be beautiful enough, we\u2019ll never be rich enough,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qI_PguMpixI\">he told the crowd<\/a>. \u201cWhatever the case may be. Certainly, that we&#8217;ll never win. Social media surrounds us with those messages all the time. It\u2019s driven down our throats every day, that we\u2019ll never be good enough and that nobody really, really loves us.\u201d He warned, however, that it was \u201can absolute lie.\u201d \u201cYou are loved. You are enough, and you will win. Not only can you win, but you will win. You\u2019ll always be enough for one reason. And that\u2019s because Jesus Christ loves you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/rock-star-plans-keep-sharing-faith-message-concerts-greatest-thing-i-can-do-my-platform\"><em>Fox News Digital<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>Arnold said he didn\u2019t know what to expect. \u201cHonestly, I had my apprehensions about it because I didn&#8217;t know how it would go over. And furthermore, when I was praying about it, I was like, &#8216;God, I don&#8217;t know what to say.&#8217; He&#8217;s like, &#8216;don&#8217;t worry about it. I&#8217;ll tell you what to say. I&#8217;ll put the words in your mouth.&#8217; And he has every night,\u201d he said. He told <em>Fox News <\/em>that overall the responses have been positive from his fans, saying people are \u201dhungry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arnold himself knows what it\u2019s like to feel unlovable to God and hopes to plant seeds within his audience. \u201cI was an alcoholic for probably 17 years,\u201d he told the station. \u201cIn January, it&#8217;ll be nine years since I&#8217;ve had a drink. And I give that completely to God because I know that I couldn&#8217;t do it. I tried to quit myself for years and I couldn&#8217;t do it. And, finally, I went to treatment and I gave it to God. And I&#8217;m not taking it back. And I didn&#8217;t want to hear it when people told me at first, but people planted seeds in my life, and they grew over time.\u201d Arnold grew up in Escatawpa, Mississippi, the youngest of 7. In 2016, decades into the band\u2019s success and after years of rock star partying, Arnold found himself at rock bottom, needing a friend. He reached out to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charliedaniels.com\/soap-box?b_id=8483\">Charlie Daniels<\/a> of the Charlie Daniels Band. Arnold had admired Daniels\u2019s music for years and had formed a friendship with him. Daniels pushed Arnold to get into rehab.<\/p>\n<p>Now sober and connected to his faith, Arnold is sharing some of that encouragement with others. He wants to avoid \u201cshoving Jesus down their throat,\u201d but states that the world needs light. \u201cThis world, to a lot of people, is a really, really dark place. And it&#8217;s not for all of us, but for a lot of people it is. And to shine a light in darkness is the greatest thing that I feel like that I can do with my platform.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 Doors Down\u2019s longevity, having formed in 1996, has given lead singer Brad Arnold a platform that he hopes to use for good. Arnold, a Christian, recently stopped a concert in Hersheypark Stadium in Pennsylvania to share the Gospel with his audience. \u201cThis world surrounds us with a message that we\u2019ll never be good enough,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":627,"featured_media":40311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","category-music"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How this Rock Star is Using His Concerts to Promote Christ<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2024\/10\/how-this-rock-star-is-using-his-concerts-to-promote-christ.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How this Rock Star is Using His Concerts to Promote Christ\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"3 Doors Down\u2019s longevity, having formed in 1996, has given lead singer Brad Arnold a platform that he hopes to use for good. 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