Some of the coolest people are also the most humble people. Some of most Spirit filled people are also some of the coolest people. In this job I am able to speak to people who you’d only get to know through their music. I am not only honored at times but mostly excited that I get to talk to bands that I love. This is one of those times where I got to talk to a really cool guy who also happen to be a very an amazing believer in The Word.

When I spoke to Gabe from Circleslide I was not only amazed by his faith and his heart for others. But found out that he not only says what he believes but he also lives what he believes. Almost having to give up his dream of being a singer Gabe found the scriptures true that say seek first the righteousness of God that He may give to us. Gabe was given his dream after given God his time in the mission field.

The name of the band is a pretty cool story too. Gabe share the story along with his faith in this interview we did with him recently. It is our pleasure to introduce to you Gabe of Circleslide.

Where you brought up in a Christian home?

I was, my dad was a Pastor, my first memory I was in church, a Christian home all the way.

How and when did you come to faith apart from your family?

I remember having encounters with God when I was growing up. I grew up in the charismatic church. There were a lot of opportunities to make a decision for Christ. So I would say there were a lot of opportunities along the way when I was making a decision to follow Christ at a young age. But it wasn’t really until I was probably 18 and had really kind of rejected by that time the faith of my parents and kind of stopped going to church. When a friend of mine had me to go on a mission trip to Mexico with him and that’s when I really saw, I guess the mercy of God at work. And I really saw that there was something bigger than me. and that there were Christians that weren’t here in the States that were extremely poor and didn’t have all that we have hear and still had a vibrant faith in God and it totally rearranged my thinking and rearranged my spirit. And saw that God was doing stuff not just here in the states but all over the world and I wanted to be a part of that. I wanted to be a part of a God that was merciful and forgiving. And so I think at 18 I came back from a mission trip and decided that I wanted to follow Christ.

What age where you started singing?

I’m sure someone can dig up some videos of me singing when I was a little kid. it was probably when I was about 14 when I started thinking about doing this seriously. And some friends of me started a band and there was this lock-in and there were a band on stage and their lead singer couldn’t show up he was sick or something. and so they asked who in the audience could sing a certain song and I knew the song so I jumped up and I started hamming it up on stage, I guess like a class clown sort of thing but it was fun. So I started there. I did go through a stage were I felt like I had to give all that up. And when I left for the youth of the mission to do like my missionary work, I felt like God was calling me to lay down this dream of singing as a profession which was dream of mine and decided to just focus on what He had for my life. And He gave it back to me some time when I was out in Russia and was out doing a mission trip in Russia.

How do you stay grounded in the faith when on the road?

That’s a great question. I’d like to think that we do stay grounded. It’s a hard thing to do. I think it’s very difficult but you have to work at it. You can’t just pretend that it’s going to happen naturally because it won’t. And so what we’ve decided to do as a band is just keep in touch with our pastors back home. And make sure that we are staying in touch with people that know us and know us not just the guys that are up on stage but know us as the guys who struggle and who are goofy and silly and all that other stuff. Another thing we try to do is, we are not always staying in hotel rooms. Sometimes we stay in peoples homes. And that’s always cool too because we tell them about our faith where people can get to know us. It’s a lot easier to be a Christian when you are staying in other Christian’s homes and you are talking about you faith. And you’re sharing people’s food and you just kind of living it out loud in front of people. And we have bible studies in the band and we try to keep each other accountable too. If one of us starts acting weird the other guys will start holding an intervention I guess (lol) you know just a spiritual intervention. And just say “hey guys, lets remember to forgive, let’s remember to be in the word, let’s remember to pray”. It’s just like anything, like being in a marriage or like being in a band or like practicing your instrument, you faith requires you to be active in it.