Thank you by all means. I can’t wait for your next tour.

And as a side note, I’ve found a lot of my faith through showbread. In a way you’ve helped me turn my faith into something a lot more solid than what it was. Some of your songs are like stories that should be in a modern day bible. When I feel depressed or my faith is being tested, there are always lyrics that play on repeat in my head like “you place your hands around my heart and quite the emptiness in me” and several others. You help me realize the forgiveness of Jesus for my modern day sins. You have replenished my faith in a way that a church never has for me. For a while I went church hopping and never found one for me. Some of them seemed so closed minded and judgmental like “The Jesus that we’re shouting in our neighbors’ face Looks nothing like the Jesus that you are” and others just didn’t reach me in a way that your songs have. I think church is great for some people but I’ve never been one of them. Music makes me feel whole. From rocking out to some Disturbed, finding great beauty in the band Nightwish or just listing to the stories of one of my personal favorite bands The Cruxshadows, I can also find my faith in bands like Showbread, Blindside, Spoken, and Lifehouse. I found out about showbread when you opened up for Blindside and so I bought “No sir, Nihilism is not practical” long before the show, little did I know how much I would take away from that album. As a singer/song writer myself, you have been a big influence on how I would like people to feel when they listen to my songs, not that I’ll ever be famous but hey, it’s a hobby. I can’t believe how much I have just written. I swear I was only going to write that first sentence and hit send. I guess this is something I’ve always wanted to thank you and the rest of Showbread for.

Sincerely

Keith

I love you and Showbread. I have disagreements with some of your beliefs (thought the fact that Jesus is God and came to die for us all is not one of those disagreements). But I love where your hearts are all the same. One thing I wonder about you and a lot of other Jesus-followers is why you don’t want to be called a Christian? Men are most often seen as lazy, piggish, perverted, and so many other negative things. Do you stop calling yourself a man? No. I think instead of not calling ourselves Christians (or men) we should try to change the way people have perceived Christians by the way we live. I honestly don’t think your letter would have any more or less impact if you had called yourself a Christian. I think disassociating yourself with the more religious Christians is only making them look worse, and I don’t think we should make others look worse. Obviously we shouldn’t hide others’ faults either. Christians are all one community. Each has a separate set of faults. So to continuously divide Christianity into separate tribes of belief is to divide the body of Christ.

Love, Josh

It has its faults, as all things do, but you did it from a place of honesty and genuine affection and that is commendable.

I hope we get to meet in person someday.