Chords for Rob Block talks about his conversion and life crisis.
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I was born to two unbelieving parents and my mom had had a lot of trouble in her life.
She had a lot of stuff going on in her childhood that was really bad.
She had a couple of marriages, married my dad, and everything was great until my mom got saved.
I ended up in my parents' divorcing when I was about five or six, which caused a lot of emotional turmoil in me.
My mom kept bringing me to church and right around six, that age, I went forward and accepted Christ.
I still have the Bible she presented me with.
I read that Bible from the time I could read until I was in my [N] teens.
My concept of God back then was the resident cosmic policeman, the bad-tempered, irritable, distant, loved me, but was not pleased with the way I acted.
That's what I grew up with.
I grew up under that legalistic concept of who God was, which is completely false to his true nature.
At about the age of 11 or 12, I got really into music.
I heard bluegrass music on television.
I grew up in California.
I heard bluegrass music and then wanted a banjo and a guitar, and I began playing banjo and guitar.
It gave me a sense of validation because my childhood had given me a sense of low self-worth and insecurity and nightmares and all kinds of stuff.
This gave me a sense of, oh, I am valuable for something.
While I had Christianity going on one track, on this parallel track, my real sense of identity was coming from music.
I was being fed by that.
Of course, as you will see, the only problem with that is anything in our identity that is centered in the world is a fluctuating source.
It goes up and down and up and down.
In the mid-'90s, I went through a very dark and deep psychological crash.
What happened through that crash, I remembered an Annabelle Gilliam book that my wife had up at her parents' place.
I was thumbing through it one day.
It was called A Woman's Strength.
I thumbed through it idly, and I saw these identity verses.
This was several years before the crash.
I read, I'm a king, I'm a priest, I'm holy, I'm accepted in the beloved.
Aren't those nice things?
Isn't that great?
But you really don't grasp those things until you really need them.
When I really needed them in that deep, dark place, that's where I went to.
I remember those verses, and I began to search out the Scripture and find out what God says about me and find out how He defines reality and how He defines me.
That's really what restructured my self-concept.
I had people, as I came from this one side of the crash, pre-crash, I was one kind of person.
I was very introverted.
I was never comfortable unless I had an instrument.
At a party, if I was playing, I was comfortable.
If I didn't, I was uncomfortable, didn't really want to talk to people.
After this crash and restructuring of my self-concept, I became not an extrovert, but very talkative and gregarious and totally willing to share my story.
Anyway, that restructuring ended up completely changing my life.
Because the only way to get through life is to define reality as God defines it.
That's all faith is, is to say, this is what God says reality is.
Then you look around at the [Fm] circumstance that looks like it's completely not true what God says.
You say, I don't care what the circumstance says, God says this is true.
That's where you step out in faith and you begin to act.
I was born to two unbelieving parents and my mom had had a lot of trouble in her life.
She had a lot of stuff going on in her childhood that was really bad.
She had a couple of marriages, married my dad, and everything was great until my mom got saved.
I ended up in my parents' divorcing when I was about five or six, which caused a lot of emotional turmoil in me.
My mom kept bringing me to church and right around six, that age, I went forward and accepted Christ.
I still have the Bible she presented me with.
I read that Bible from the time I could read until I was in my [N] teens.
My concept of God back then was the resident cosmic policeman, the bad-tempered, irritable, distant, loved me, but was not pleased with the way I acted.
That's what I grew up with.
I grew up under that legalistic concept of who God was, which is completely false to his true nature.
At about the age of 11 or 12, I got really into music.
I heard bluegrass music on television.
I grew up in California.
I heard bluegrass music and then wanted a banjo and a guitar, and I began playing banjo and guitar.
It gave me a sense of validation because my childhood had given me a sense of low self-worth and insecurity and nightmares and all kinds of stuff.
This gave me a sense of, oh, I am valuable for something.
While I had Christianity going on one track, on this parallel track, my real sense of identity was coming from music.
I was being fed by that.
Of course, as you will see, the only problem with that is anything in our identity that is centered in the world is a fluctuating source.
It goes up and down and up and down.
In the mid-'90s, I went through a very dark and deep psychological crash.
What happened through that crash, I remembered an Annabelle Gilliam book that my wife had up at her parents' place.
I was thumbing through it one day.
It was called A Woman's Strength.
I thumbed through it idly, and I saw these identity verses.
This was several years before the crash.
I read, I'm a king, I'm a priest, I'm holy, I'm accepted in the beloved.
Aren't those nice things?
Isn't that great?
But you really don't grasp those things until you really need them.
When I really needed them in that deep, dark place, that's where I went to.
I remember those verses, and I began to search out the Scripture and find out what God says about me and find out how He defines reality and how He defines me.
That's really what restructured my self-concept.
I had people, as I came from this one side of the crash, pre-crash, I was one kind of person.
I was very introverted.
I was never comfortable unless I had an instrument.
At a party, if I was playing, I was comfortable.
If I didn't, I was uncomfortable, didn't really want to talk to people.
After this crash and restructuring of my self-concept, I became not an extrovert, but very talkative and gregarious and totally willing to share my story.
Anyway, that restructuring ended up completely changing my life.
Because the only way to get through life is to define reality as God defines it.
That's all faith is, is to say, this is what God says reality is.
Then you look around at the [Fm] circumstance that looks like it's completely not true what God says.
You say, I don't care what the circumstance says, God says this is true.
That's where you step out in faith and you begin to act.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ I was born to two unbelieving parents and my mom had had a lot of trouble in her life.
She had a lot of stuff going on in her childhood that was really bad.
_ She _ had a couple of marriages, married my dad, and everything was great until my mom got saved.
_ _ I ended up in my parents' divorcing when I was about five or six, which caused a lot of emotional turmoil in me.
_ _ My mom _ kept bringing me to church and right around six, that age, I went forward and accepted Christ.
I still have the Bible she presented me with.
I read that Bible from the time I could read until I was in my [N] teens.
_ _ My concept of God back then was the resident cosmic policeman, the bad-tempered, _ _ _ irritable, distant, loved me, but was not pleased with the way I acted.
_ _ That's what I grew up with.
I grew up under that legalistic concept of who God was, which is completely false to his true nature. _ _ _ _
_ At about the age of _ 11 or 12, I got really into music.
I heard bluegrass music on television.
I grew up in California.
I heard bluegrass music and then wanted a banjo and a guitar, and I began playing banjo and guitar.
It gave me a sense of validation because my childhood had given me a sense of low self-worth and insecurity and nightmares and all kinds of stuff.
This gave me a sense of, oh, I am valuable for something.
While I had Christianity going on one track, on this parallel track, my real sense of identity was coming from music.
I was being fed by that.
_ Of course, as you will see, the only problem with that is anything in our identity that is centered in the world is a fluctuating source.
It goes up and down and up and down.
In the mid-'90s, I went through a very _ dark and deep _ _ psychological crash. _
_ _ What happened through that crash, I remembered an Annabelle Gilliam book that my wife had up at her parents' place.
I was thumbing through it one day.
It was called A Woman's Strength.
I thumbed through it idly, and I saw these identity verses.
This was several years before the crash.
I read, I'm a king, I'm a priest, I'm holy, I'm accepted in the beloved.
Aren't those nice things?
Isn't that great?
But you really don't grasp those things until you really need them.
When I really needed them in that deep, dark place, that's where I went to.
I remember those verses, and I began to search out the Scripture and find out _ what God says about me and find out how He defines reality and how He defines me.
That's really what restructured my self-concept.
I had people, as I came from this one side of the crash, pre-crash, I was one kind of person.
I was very introverted.
I was never _ comfortable unless I had an instrument.
At a party, if I was playing, I was comfortable.
If I didn't, I was uncomfortable, didn't really want to talk to people.
_ After this crash and restructuring of my self-concept, I became not an extrovert, but very talkative and gregarious and totally willing to share my story. _ _
Anyway, that restructuring _ ended up completely changing my life.
Because the only way to get through life is to define reality as God defines it.
That's all faith is, is to say, this is what God says reality is.
Then you look around at the [Fm] circumstance that looks like it's completely not true what God says.
You say, I don't care what the circumstance says, God says this is true.
That's where you step out in faith and you begin to act. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I was born to two unbelieving parents and my mom had had a lot of trouble in her life.
She had a lot of stuff going on in her childhood that was really bad.
_ She _ had a couple of marriages, married my dad, and everything was great until my mom got saved.
_ _ I ended up in my parents' divorcing when I was about five or six, which caused a lot of emotional turmoil in me.
_ _ My mom _ kept bringing me to church and right around six, that age, I went forward and accepted Christ.
I still have the Bible she presented me with.
I read that Bible from the time I could read until I was in my [N] teens.
_ _ My concept of God back then was the resident cosmic policeman, the bad-tempered, _ _ _ irritable, distant, loved me, but was not pleased with the way I acted.
_ _ That's what I grew up with.
I grew up under that legalistic concept of who God was, which is completely false to his true nature. _ _ _ _
_ At about the age of _ 11 or 12, I got really into music.
I heard bluegrass music on television.
I grew up in California.
I heard bluegrass music and then wanted a banjo and a guitar, and I began playing banjo and guitar.
It gave me a sense of validation because my childhood had given me a sense of low self-worth and insecurity and nightmares and all kinds of stuff.
This gave me a sense of, oh, I am valuable for something.
While I had Christianity going on one track, on this parallel track, my real sense of identity was coming from music.
I was being fed by that.
_ Of course, as you will see, the only problem with that is anything in our identity that is centered in the world is a fluctuating source.
It goes up and down and up and down.
In the mid-'90s, I went through a very _ dark and deep _ _ psychological crash. _
_ _ What happened through that crash, I remembered an Annabelle Gilliam book that my wife had up at her parents' place.
I was thumbing through it one day.
It was called A Woman's Strength.
I thumbed through it idly, and I saw these identity verses.
This was several years before the crash.
I read, I'm a king, I'm a priest, I'm holy, I'm accepted in the beloved.
Aren't those nice things?
Isn't that great?
But you really don't grasp those things until you really need them.
When I really needed them in that deep, dark place, that's where I went to.
I remember those verses, and I began to search out the Scripture and find out _ what God says about me and find out how He defines reality and how He defines me.
That's really what restructured my self-concept.
I had people, as I came from this one side of the crash, pre-crash, I was one kind of person.
I was very introverted.
I was never _ comfortable unless I had an instrument.
At a party, if I was playing, I was comfortable.
If I didn't, I was uncomfortable, didn't really want to talk to people.
_ After this crash and restructuring of my self-concept, I became not an extrovert, but very talkative and gregarious and totally willing to share my story. _ _
Anyway, that restructuring _ ended up completely changing my life.
Because the only way to get through life is to define reality as God defines it.
That's all faith is, is to say, this is what God says reality is.
Then you look around at the [Fm] circumstance that looks like it's completely not true what God says.
You say, I don't care what the circumstance says, God says this is true.
That's where you step out in faith and you begin to act. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _