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"The Call" - story of a song
Seth Irby

My friend Scott and I sat among the road cases and random set pieces backstage at Minneapolis Winter Conference, at the time called “TCX”. I was the conference worship leader but was struggling through a lot of insecurity. Between Cru and church and family, Christmas had already been stressful and on top of all that I showed up to the conference sick. Scott listened as I unpacked what I was feeling.

Maybe it was something he said or the Holy Spirit opening my eyes (probably both) but through that conversation something became abundantly clear. I had the role of “worship leader” at this winter conference and if I didn’t step up and do it, no one else was positioned to do so. It became a moment of clarity for me where I said, “God, I’m going to trust you. I’ll bring you whatever I have to offer and have faith that you’ll use it and make it enough to accomplish your purposes at this conference.”

It couldn’t have been 10min later that I was out in the stairwell with my guitar, inspired, and playing through the beginnings of a new song that became “The Call.” As soon as the song started to come together, I thought of the STINTers we send out every year. It became a goal
for me to finish the song and share it with them at STINT Briefing, where we were going to be leading worship that year. It all came together.

Later, we were even able to record the song and give it away to STINTers at the Briefing and Mid-Year conferences.

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