Several formats over the years included middle of the road,country music with farm news and later southern gospel.

Then he stopped, adding, "But we do want to hit people over the head with the Gospel."

The pastor related that the church was excited about the prospects of reaching many people in the community with the Gospel.

"She asks me to infuse her arrangements with gospel," he said.

They wanted to reach as many people as they could with the Gospel.

Living sexual lives that comport with the Gospel is one part of that.

The number of people reached with the Gospel can be estimated to be between 250,000-500,000 people.

It is not to be confused with the Gospel of Barnabas.

Finding a new direction with gospel based recordings, his songwriting nevertheless suffered in the late 1970s.

In high school, he played and recorded with gospel immortal James Cleveland.