There were a number of things that were going on in my life—my marriage, my relationship with my kids, I had two step kids, and we had a baby on the way. There were just so many things going on that when I finally got to a point where I was just completely broken, I knew that I either I didn’t want to be there any longer and something was going to have to change.

CCM: What was the catalyst?
ZW:
The guitar player in my rock band had been invited to play in one of the services at a church, they ended up going for a couple of more weeks, and then they invited us to visit. That was all I really needed, was somebody in my band that would sit up with me at night and talk about church—that all goes back to when I grew up in church—but at the time I didn’t feel like anyone around me understood the things I was going through. When we began going to church together, we formed this bond… We already had this awesome friendship and been in a band for years, but now we had something more in common than just music and playing in dive bars.

That’s where everything started to change. To have a friend say, “We should check this out. We’ve been doing this for way too long—we’ve got kids now, and we can’t do this anymore.” From the second I walked into the doors of that church, I knew that was exactly where God wanted me.

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The craziest thing is, it’s like a 7,000-member Southern Baptist church—I grew up in a non-denominational, borderline Pentecostal church—I remember thinking as a kid, “I’ll never go to that church—it’s just not me,” and it was exactly God’s plan.

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  1. Steven Kubiszewski

    Love your “Chain Breaker” song Mr. Williams! Congratulations on your Emmy nominee and your new album (I’m gonna get it)! -Steve

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