Chris Sligh Returns With 'A Modern Liturgy'
Award-winning songwriter and screenwriter Chris Sligh has released his new album 'A Modern Liturgy', following his successful 2016 release 'Mighty Roar / Healing Flood'.
Chris left the music world, and a major label record deal, back in 2011, after his daughter was born and he felt "called back to full-time church ministry". He spent six and a half years working for three churches across America, working his way into being the creative lead for two of the top 100 larges churches in America, culminating with his last job as creative director for a church of 8000 outside Chicago.
Chris wrote the #1 "Here Comes Goodbye" for Rascal Flatts (along with songwriter and producer Clint Lagerberg), and for a handful of years he was a mainstay on Christian radio, with hits ranging from Soft AC/inspirational to CHR.
But he also left the business after a highly successful major label debut Running Back to You and the middling success of his sophomore album The Anatomy of Broken, and spent the last six and a half years away from the spotlight, working in the church world.
"I needed to get away. For my own sanity. For my marriage. For my kids", he explains. "I had to learn the lessons I learned while I was away. I had to learn to love; that the work isn't the important thing; that people are more important than success, whatever that may be in any given situation.
I had to actually believe those things, not just have them be intellectual theories I had head knowledge of; they had to be ingrained on my heart. I gave up my music career back then. I laid it on the alter. I never thought I'd do this again. But then... God brought it back around. I want to do something different now. I believe my legacy in the end will not be the albums I make or the songs I write or the shows I play. My legacy will the be the relationships I foster, the service I render to those around me, the way I am remembered to have loved."
