Rhett Walker Speaks on Teen Pregnancy, Church Community, and Jesus

Grammy-nominated Christian singer Rhett Walker says the grace extended to him by a church during a teenage pregnancy is the reason he sings today and also the reason he found salvation. Walker is a five-time Dove Award nominee but says he likely never would have entered Christian music had his church not displayed love when he and his then-girlfriend April—now his wife—became pregnant.

"We've been married for 20 years this year," Walker told Crosswalk Headlines. "We were a teenage pregnancy at 17, and I watched the church rally around us, which led to me getting saved. And I was like, man, if I can share my story and it resonates the same way the church rallied around me as a teenager …that's what I want to do. So I don't write songs for the radio to play it. I hope they do. I love it when they do. [But] I write songs off life-lived and lessons learned and hope to help somebody along."

Walker received a Dove nomination this year for his song Man on the Middle Cross, which was up for Bluegrass/Country/Roots Recorded Song of the Year and is part of his new EP, Days that We Dreamed Of. He previously received a Grammy nomination for Where Mercy Found Me and landed in the Billboard Christian Airplay Top 5 for Gospel Song.

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