T Michael Cart posted this to my Facebook today. I am usually extremely wary of anything that comes from Hillsong for various reasons, but this one struck a chord. It’s somehow real, not just the usual fluff and hype.
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I miss this so much.
“From the Inside Out” is actually one of their better songs, I think. I like.
Barb, I’m curious – what is it that you miss?
Shelly, it appears to be. I’m not a Hillsong fan by any means! I still can’t believe myself that I’m recommending a Hillsong song!
Yes very tingle up the spine stuff.
I can’t however ignore the irony that a man is singing “your glory goes beyond all fame” in a song that is probably his benchmark song that is obviously showering him in just that: FAME!!!
Sorry. You know me. Cynical to the bone! :]
Yeah yeah – who knew anybody in my family could beat me in the cynicism stakes?
Heather, thanks for asking. Not sure I can answer though. To this point I have felt sick at the sound of a “worship” song like we used to sing. I went to one service(the only one I have been to since leaving) and could barely sit through the service. I don’t know but something about this song was immensely healing to me the other day. I played it over and over and cried long and hard. Something in my spirit that I thought was dead came back to life. I missed being in a group of people and worshiping like I have done for 20 years. I missed the total outpouring of my heart. I missed the music, the rawness, the freedom.
Anyway, thanks for posting it. It has meant the world to me the past two days. Certainly a God thing.
Barb, you’ve made tears come to my eyes. Wow!
I’m so glad my posting it made a difference to you. And I’m glad my new song was also yours. This is the wonder of blogs.
(((Hugs)))
What a pity you can’t say something nice about Hillsong without qualifying it with how much you dislike Hillsong. Sad.
Rodney, hi and welcome.
I’m sorry if you were offended by my little disclaimer, but I certainly wouldn’t call it “sad” – it’s simply my opinion. You have to understand – I have had far too much crap fed to me by Hillsong over the past fifteen years not to be cynical about the way they operate. I do dislike Hillsong in general and I’m happy to own that and write it here on my blog. Not sad at all, just honest.
Sigh. I tried, I really did. But can’t do it.
There’s no shame here, Erin. *grin*
LOL Erin
I didn’t want to detract from how powerful it was for Barb (which is wonderful)…so I hesitated to say it.
mmm – i love this song. it’s been one of the songs our church community has really embraced, and one of our girls signs it – so powerful. i don’t care who wrote it – if it’s a song that captures my heart, is theologically spot on, and i can sing it from the depths of my soul, it’s a good worship song.
i don’t know anything about anything – but my understanding is there’s a difference between Hillsong and Hillsong United? United’s turned out a few that have really blessed us…
Happy, perhaps there is a difference between the two. I don’t know much about United – we generally just get straight Hillsong here most of the time, being the birthplace of such classics as Shout to the Lord and All Things Are Possible. *shudder*
I have the Shout to the Lord CD, with Darlene glorifying God on the cover.
We used to sing it regularly at our church establishment. I suppose if I am really honest there were times when I liked singing that song – i must have, to buy the CD, even though it feels a bit incongruous to me now that I know God’s not going to send me to hell for singing the music that I REALLY like
“it feels a bit incongruous to me now that I know God’s not going to send me to hell for singing the music that I REALLY like ”
For sure!
And I won’t lie, there were a few Hillsongs I really liked…at least briefly. But every time a good one came along, our church had to sing it 100 times per week at every service, class, bible study and meeting in existence, until we would cry “mercy” at the intro.
So it’s partly that.
Sue, I have one of those too! Maybe one day we can have a Hillsong CD comparison day.
LOL!
I love your comment about the music you really like.
Erin, that’s exactly right. Shout to the Lord absolutely goes in that category, as does I Walk By Faith (not Hillsong?), and absolutely All Things Are Possible, with the accompanying jumping. Eek!
Hmmm. Well… that isnt such a bad song. I am stumbling through the posts of your last year. Remember a few months ago when I ended up listening to that Christian rock band and I didnt even realise until my boof head boyfriend *coughed and smiled at me, happily pointing it out*… to which I deleted it from my musical rotation in horror.
Good song. Cute singer (because as we all know that is REALLY important LOL). Not making the rotation. But still happy to see that there is good music that has the ability to move EVERYONE in some way…
I love trawling your blogginess
I’m glad you like the cute singer at least