exchanged living.

Aaron Strumpel is the kind of worship leader the church needs, but is not the kind of worship leader a lot of the church would want; he’s unquestionably artistic, he’s explosively prophetic, and he pushes back at those who would confine worship to those structures coming out of Australia or Nashville. Some people wouldn’t even call what he does “worship”. And those people have not really listened to his music.

I first heard his work with the Enter the Worship Circle folks and their Chair and Microphone series (he did Volume 2). This album, Elephant (2009), is the first full-band project I’ve heard of his, and it’s incredible. Picking a tune off of it was hard, but I went with this one because I like the horns on it, and the lyrics.

“This Can’t Last”

Chains hold my hands
I almost think they’re friends
But my heart still can feel

Time marches in
Pretending to make me old
But my heart still can feel

Worries rule my mind
I almost think they’re right
But my heart still can feel

Tremors rack my bones
I think I might be broken
But my heart still can feel

This can’t last
World goes round
Sun will rise
In your arms I’ll be found

-Check Aaron out here.