David Crowder talks about death of friend and pastor Kyle Lake

IN A RECENT interview popular US worship leader David Crowder revealed that the death of his friend and pastor Kyle Lake were the inspiration behind his new book Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven, But Nobody Wants To Die: Or The Eschatology Of Bluegrass. Crowder explained, "This book is a study of grief. It is a book about the pain absence can bring. It is about the sharpness of memory that eventually dulls into something we both fear and pray for. It is a book about dying. The kind of corporeal dying that every one of us will one day experience and the kind of dying that must happen at some point before that moment of mortal death for true living to begin. Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die." 'Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven, But Nobody Wants To Die' is Crowder's second book and has been co-written with his fellow band member Mike Hogan. Crowder's first book, Praise Habit, was critically well received.