{"id":1816627,"date":"2023-01-20T03:04:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T08:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1816627"},"modified":"2023-01-20T03:04:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T08:04:58","slug":"ricky-skaggs-found-his-calling-honor-god-and-bluegrass-and-play-as-fast-as-he-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ricky-skaggs-found-his-calling-honor-god-and-bluegrass-and-play-as-fast-as-he-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Skaggs Found His Calling: Honor God And Bluegrass \u2014 And Play As Fast As He Can"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fricky-skaggs-found-his-calling-honor-god-and-bluegrass-and-play-as-fast-as-he-can%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1816627&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Ricky Skaggs has a remarkable resume. <a href=\"https:\/\/rickyskaggs.com\/tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">touring this year<\/a> His excellent band Kentucky Thunder. He\u2019s a member of the Country Music, Bluegrass, and Gospel Music Halls of Fame. He\u2019s won 15 Grammys. He has 11 No. He has 11 No. 1 country singles, four No. 1 bluegrass album and seven No. But, as Skaggs told me in a recent interview, it\u2019s his Christian faith he\u2019s most proud of.<\/p>\n<p>Skaggs was a religious man, which I had known from years of listening to him. However, when I saw him in person in January, I was stunned at the importance of his religious faith. \u201cWe don\u2019t start our show with gospel, we don\u2019t want to hoodwink people,\u201d Skaggs agreed. About halfway through the show, Dennis Parker, an ex-alcoholic who was sentenced to time in prison, gave a moving testimony of faith and redemption that left many people in the audience in tears. He also elicited congratulatory ovations.<\/p>\n<p>Skaggs was often criticized by his faith openness early in his career. \u201cOne guy wrote a letter complaining that he didn\u2019t pay $100 to hear a sermon. So I sent him a check for $100,\u201d Skaggs recounted. \u201cWe play great music with such quality and such finesse. These musicians are at the top of their game. I feel like God wants us to earn the right to share with the audience. It just is something we should do. They see that we\u2019re just normal people, we love our country, we love God, and we love y\u2019all too. And we\u2019re just gonna share as we do, and make it part of the whole performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Skaggs believes today&#8217;s audience is more open to hearing the gospel than ever before. \u201cWe couldn\u2019t have done the things we\u2019re doing now but with all the latest craziness, the\u00a0virus and all that, the temperature of people having a stomach to listen to the gospel is much, much better than it was pre-pandemic,\u201d He observed. \u201cPeople are seeing the writing on the wall. They\u2019re seeing the way our nation is turning. God does not let those prayers go to waste. People are given another chance. God is the God of the second, third, fourth chance \u2014 he\u2019s got all kinds of chances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> A Virtuoso of Youth <\/p>\n<p>Skaggs has seen his fair share of opportunities in his life. He was 5 years old when his father Hobert bought him a mandolin. In the next year, Skaggs played at a concert with Bill Monroe, who is widely regarded as the man who transformed bluegrass into a genuine musical genre. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Monroe pulled me up like a sack of dog food onto the stage. He took his mandolin off, which is now in the Hall of Fame, and let me play it,\u201d Skaggs stated. The year after that, he appeared on Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs\u2019 syndicated TV show, earning $52.50 for the appearance, his first paycheck for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I feel like God wants us to earn the right to share with the audience. 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