unplugged

3:16 unplugged is a set we do with acoustic guitars. It's a much more mellow set than our typical set which is more rock music driven. Unplugged is our set unplugged in a intimate atmosphere. If your church or event is after a tamed down set than the 3:16 unplugged set is what your after. You'll still get great music and energy but in a set that is not as loud or wider in genre.

The band has a nice history to it. Dave Byers and Dave Halfhill are longtime friends from high school and played together in several bands over the years playing all across the area. Pat and Larry are good friends of Dave's for years also. They'd played with Dave while Dave was doing solo gigs a few summers back. John is a nephew of Pat and Larry's. Zach is Dave Byers's son and Bill Vassar is the soundman at Pat and Larry's church where they are a part of the praise team at House of Prayer church in Calcutta ohio. Dave Byers, Pat and Larry Wolf enjoyed being a band together and wanted to continue playing music. So Dave Byers recruited his old pal Dave Halfhill into the band as drummer. Wanting a strong vocal presence the band then asked John Chevront to be their lead vocalist.

We as the 3:16 band really enjoy playing at churches, fairs and festivals because it gets out among many different people. Music outside is always fun and we love to play gospel music to people in a contemporary way that many people aren't used to hearing. The music is contemporary but the message is the same message that has survived throughout time that God loves us and has a plan for our lives. Mark 16:15-16 "He said to them, 'Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned'" 1 Corinthians 9:16 reads "For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel." God brings change in a powerful way. Isaiah 1:18 says "Come now, and let us reason together," Says the LORD, "Though your sins are as scarlet, They will be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They will be like wool." As Christians we will tell you that we are certainly not perfect. Christians sometimes get that stereotype that they think they are perfect. Let us tell you that we are not implying that at all but that He (God) is perfect and we have found immeasurable joy in knowing Him and we simply wish to share that joy with others. Ephesians 2:8-9 "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - not by works, so that no one can boast." So we'd be silly to say that we are anything other than musician's who love God and want to play music together to His glory. 1 Corinthians 1:31 "Therefore, as it is written, 'Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.'" So we boast in the Lord and hope that His joy is also in you or that you will give Him a chance to intercede in your life and make a major impact in your life.

Psalm 92 It is good to praise the LORD and make music to your name, O Most High, to proclaim your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night, to the music of the ten-stringed lyre and the melody of the harp. For you make me glad by your deeds, O LORD; I sing for joy at the works of your hands. How great are your works, O LORD, how profound your thoughts!

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