It wasn't something we were shooting for. The title track was the No. 1 Christian Rock Song for 1999. It's nice to come to the table with 50 or 60 songs. We've grown a lot the last two years with who we are, what the music is and our role in it. As for content, the CD boldly addresses the issue of redemption.
Understanding is a process.
Their songs, they said, are designed for thinking people, a starting point for spiritual contemplation. Who fully understands the depth of it, the lengths Christ has gone to save us. The 10 or 11 songs on an album aren't ever going to exhaust the issue. Picking up the torch Switchfoot's passion for music and faith was not based on happenstance, but rather a parallel evolution that emerged a generation ago. Their fathers, Chuck Butler, pastor at Calvary San Marcos, and Mark Foreman, pastor at Calvary North Coast, were part of the '70s Jesus Movement that emerged from the Costa Mesa church which birthed the Calvary movement.