Worship Musician June 2020 | Page 24

or we put on an album or whatever it is, and get before the Lord and worship, not only are we reminded of who He is, but we are reminded of who we are in Him. I think that’s the beautiful thing about worship, it just realigns our focus. Its really important for us as believers to remember that God remains the same, He is faithful and He is good, and worship is such a powerful way to do that. [WM] Let’s talk about the new project, Church, Volume One (and Two). Volume One has just released and I believe Volume Two is out now as well. This was all recorded live on four consecutive Sundays, capturing and accurately reflecting the essence and experience of Sunday worship at Jesus Culture Church. Tell us about the project overall, and its themes. I’ll ask you about some specific songs next. [Kim] When we started talking about our next recording, we asked ourselves did we want to do a recording, and what did we want it to look like, all of those things. One thing that kept coming up time and time again was how we all felt this pull and tug and a contending for something that is reminiscent of long ago, when we first started. What I mean by that is, when we first started making music and recording our own music and putting stuff out there into the world, our intention was only to help teenagers connect with Jesus in their own home, or in their cars, wherever they were listening to the music, so that when they came back to the conference the next summer we could actually disciple them further and grow them further. Because what we were finding was that they were having this moment with Jesus but then going back to life and not really have the tools to keep the momentum and the fire. So, we thought if we could give them something to help fuel that worship and connection to Jesus maybe it will help with the growth, and that’s exactly what happened! So our intent was never to become a band, or create a record label, or to grow into this thing, it was kind of like the Lord just breathed on it and birthed all of that out of the music, which was incredible. And we out into the world at th music industry, there we or movements creating are tons! With techno record and make music back then it wasn’t a co sort of like people we where to put us, asking you”? We were a move “When we started ma music... ou intention w to help tee connect w ...wherever were listen the music.. that when came back conference summer we actually di them furth church, so we got calle For a long time we wre we a band?” We felt like and we weren’t mad a the nature of the thing, an identity on us that jus Because we weren’t n June 2020