Jake Gehret

• Worship Leader

Background

• Education
  B.S. in Business Admin, Marketing
• Family
  My parents live in Mt. Carmel, IL and i have two sisters in the St. Louis metro area.

Questions

• What is your favorite bible verse?
  "For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been freed from sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus." This was the verse that the Holy Spirit used to empower me in gospel-centered living for the first time. It was exhilarating and freeing in a way that I still cannot describe or understand.
• What is following Jesus like these days?
  Every day I am learning new ways in which my heart is messed up and my character is flawed. It would be unbearably depressing if not for my unshakable conviction that every time I am shown new depths of my depravity, I am actually being shown just how far grace and redemption in Christ can and will be victorious over sin and death.
• How long have you been at The Journey?
  For a bit
• What ministry are you involved in?
  I am a worship leader at the Metro East and Tower Grove campuses. I also get to regularly work with Mission: St. Louis in its community efforts.

Favorites

• Books: Unceasing Worship by Harold Best, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, My Antonia by Willa Cather, Surprised By Hope by N.T. Wright, Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry, The Glories of the Cross by A.C. Dixon
• Bands: Ryan Adams, Will Hoge, Tom Waits, Wilco, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, U2, Otis Redding, Leonard Cohen, Counting Crows, Johnny Cash, Damien Rice, SRV, David Crowder, Patty Griffin, William Fitzsimmons, Over the Rhine, Norah Jones, Josh Ritter, Ray Lamontagne, Gillian Welch, Patsy Cline, Red Mountain, Cannonball Adderley, Chamberlain, Derek Webb, Taylor Sorensen and the Trigger Code, Jay-Z, Buddy Miller, Adam Levy, Regina Spektor, Indelible Grace, Glen Hansard, Sufjan Stevens, Jimmy Smith, Coldplay, the Wandering Sons, Antony, the Temptations, Sandra McCracken, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Common, Jolie Holland, Nickel Creek, Charlie Hall, Marvin Gaye, the Wallflowers, Andrew Osenga, John Coltrane

So, Tell Me...

• What is your vision for The Journey? My vision for the Journey is that we do what the Lord wants us to do and are what the Lord wants us to be.