Jesus Culture’ s newest release, Worthy of Hallelujah, is a robust 17-track selection of great songs captured from real worship happening in churches everywhere. We recently spoke with two of its worship leaders, Brett Lee Miller and Lindsey Arcaro, for the backstory behind it all as well as their personal involvement in their own local churches.
[ Alex ] Thank you both for joining me today.
[ Brett Lee Miller ] It’ s good to be here.
[ Lindsey Arcaro ] Thank you for having us.
[ WM ] I’ d like to start by saying that Jesus Culture is a collective with worship leaders coming from various churches. So, let’ s talk about your roles at your individual churches and how they fit into these new recordings., Lindsay, let’ s begin with you.
[ Lindsey ]
Yes.
I have been on staff at a church that my husband and I helped plant 12 years ago. I’ ve been on staff as the worship pastor for 12 and a half years. And there’ s four songs on this record that I wrote, and those songs lived in our church for a good three to four years before anything happened with them. There’ s two of them specifically;“ Christ is All”
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and“ Near the Lord”, and“ Worthy of Hallelujah” too.
We just started singing them at church. And people just really connected with them and were able to engage and worship with them. And so, they ended up on the record.
[ Brett ]
In August, our church will be four years old. I merged in with Jesus Culture in Sacramento, and we’ re just loving what the Lord was doing there. Cozy, happy, all this stuff, and then our founding pastor Banning Liebscher, invited us to help pioneer this church plant. and we’ ve been here ever since.
We call
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it pulling out a holy rug beneath us.( laughs) We never saw San Diego coming. It’ s been beautiful and it’ s been challenging. It’ s been everything that planting churches is, and it’ s been absolutely incredible!
That being said, regardless of what campus we’ re at with Jesus Culture, we look at the local church as the tip of our spear. Gone are the days where we’ re banking on tours or large-scale events as being the tip of the spear.
All of that now bows to this mandate of being Jesus to those that are directly in front of us and creating a dwelling place for His presence. And that’ s the local church. So that’ s all a segue into these songs, exactly like Lindsay said. We did this record very different than even the last record.
[ WM ] Awesome. This is really refreshing to hear because, you know, years ago, at least in the beginning of CCLI days, there were no charts.
And songs took on a spontaneous nature and a life of their own without marketing efforts, so this is refreshing to hear. So, let’ s go back to where you both serve. Lindsay, you’ re in Smyrna, Georgia and Brett, you’ re in San Diego, and that’ s quite a variety of cultural communities to serve. Did you try out each other’ s songs on your own personal congregations before the final overall songs were chosen for the project?
[ Lindsey ] Oh, yeah, definitely. We’ re
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