In Hilikus, Brandon is a generous evangelist. It doesn’t seek to erase or rewrite the recipient, it wishes only to augment. It is an attitude that says “this thing has done so much good for me and I would love for you to experience it too”. It comes not from a sense of obligation, as conquest so often does, but from joyful overflow.

The evangelism of generosity is a different matter though. So to be clear, I’m not here to defend evangelical conquest. When these exchanges happen, neither party leaves with the sense that they’ve been listened to. People see through that – we know when our feelings and beliefs are not being treated with respect. It’s sharing for their own sake, not for the sake of the person hearing it. The former is the sort that provokes that reaction of “don’t push that on me”, the sort that cares more for the delivery of the message than for the recipient themselves. And so today I wish to offer a Defence of the Evangelist.Įvangelism can be born of two different intentions: conquest, or generosity. People share the things that are important to them, of course they do. Back then I used to bristle when I heard those words, mainly out of insecurity and religious fervour, but nowadays I bristle simply at the close-minded cynicism of it. The final video was edited with scenes of the band playing the song.Growing up as a Christian, there’s a particular sentiment that I became very used to hearing: “If that’s what you think then fine, but don’t push your beliefs on me”. On March 27, 2007, Kaamuz's video became available on Yahoo! Music.

Ramon Boutviseth was the runner up, and therefore won the Grand Prize.

The video of the winner being announced was available on the contest website. The top five contestants were announced on February 1, 2007, with fans then getting the chance to vote on a 'Fan-pick'.Ĭarlos 'Kaamuz' Oliveira won both the fan pick and band pick with his animation. The band made an unusual choice in letting fans help create the music video for the song by holding a contest called 'I Dig Incubus', with the winner possibly having their video used as the official version. The song is featured in the 2009 music video game Lego Rock Band. On the Adult Top 40 chart, it reached number 17, while just breaking the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at #94. Receiving huge airplay from alternative rock radio stations throughout the United States, 'Dig' peaked at number four on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. ' Dig' is the second single released by American rock band Incubus from their sixth studio album, Light Grenades (2006). Brandon Boyd, Mike Einziger, Ben Kenney, Chris Kilmore, José Pasillas

Incubus band cartoon