Award-winning rock band 3 Doors Down performed their famous hits to a rapturous crowd in Hershey, Pennsylvania this weekend, but surprised the audience with a biblical message. The Grammy-nominated and American Music Award-winning band, 3 Doors Down, is known for smash hits such as: Kryptonite, without you and when i'm goneAll of these reached the top 5 on Billboard's Hot 100 list in the early 2000s. here without you It has 1 billion views on YouTube.
3 Doors Down is not a Christian band, but lead singer Brad Arnold told the audience at their August 23 show that he felt led to speak about his faith.
He made the comments before the band began their song. Away from the sun, Church Leaders Reported.
“The world surrounds us with the message that we will never be good enough, we will never be strong enough, we will never be beautiful enough, we will never be rich enough,” Arnold said.
“Social media constantly surrounds us with messages that no one really loves us.”
He said such messages were “total lies.”
“You are loved. You are enough and you will win,” Arnold said. “Not only can you win, you will win. And you will always be enough, and there's only one reason for that: Jesus Christ loves you. Jesus Christ loves you so much that He made you exactly the way you are, exactly where you're standing right now.”
“[He] Because I love you, I know you're not perfect yet. You are more than that. There is more. I promise you, there is more. And you will triumph.”
Arnold encouraged the audience to repeat, “I am the one Jesus loves.”
The apostle John “said he was the beloved of Jesus, but it wasn't because he was the greatest,” Arnold said. “He said it in spite of all his failures, just like we all do. I fail every day. I failed all day today. You failed today, and yet you are the beloved of Jesus.”
WATCH: Brad Arnold of 3 Doors Down shares the teachings of Jesus with an audience of 28,000 – Hershey, PA
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Michael Faust He has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years, and his work has appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, Christian Post, Leaf Chronicle, Toronto Star and Knoxville News Sentinel.
