I shall never forget an Amy Grant concert at King’s Island in Cincinnati in the midst of the controversy that swirled around her during the summer of 1986 for “crossing over” into the secular market. Many Christians laid into Amy Grant, outraged that people could tune to any rock radio station in the nation and hear her sing about her love for Jesus.
At the concert Grant told about songs she was working on and how her tour was going. But then it became very quiet, and out of the silence she confessed to feeling great pain over all the abuse and derision from her sisters and brothers in Christ. She then visibly straightened up and spoke of her resolve not to listen to it.
And then came out these words, so powerful I wrote them down on the spot. “Some people think I should stand in the light and give my witness. But I believe God has called me to stand in the dark, and there give off my light. I know there is danger in the dark, but God’s Word has told that I’m all right as long as I don’t lose sight of the light.”
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Leonard Sweet, Aquachurch (Loveland, CO: 1999) p. 17.