Life.Church Worship
Life.Church Worship is a collective of worship pastors from Life.Church. As an extension of the church’s mission to lead people to become fully devoted followers of Christ, Life.Church Worship is passionate about creating music that inspires listeners to pursue a relationship with Jesus.
Congrats on your album release! You’ve said these songs have been anthems for your church body. What are some songs in particular that reflect or celebrate either a challenging or rewarding season for the people you lead on Sundays?
Thanks so much! Yes, each of the songs on this EP was inspired by the stories of the people in our church, and in turn, has inspired so many more stories. One song that’s been huge for us is the title track, “Grace Upon Grace.” It’s a song of celebration about how God covers us with His grace.
No matter what we’ve done, His forgiveness is complete. We could never earn or deserve His grace, and this song is our joyful response of gratitude.
How does this album remind believers of what’s true and encourage them to hold onto that truth?
This album was written for anyone who needs healing, encouragement, or a reminder of what’s true. We pray these songs strengthen people’s faith, refresh their souls, and give them confidence that no matter what they’re walking through, God is always with them and always for them.
Tell us about collaborating with Matt Redman was like on “Finished Work of Christ.”
Wow, what an honor it was to work with Matt Redman.
He’s such a pillar in the world of worship songwriting, and it was incredible to collaborate with him in writing this song. When we brought “Finished Work of Christ” into the writing session with Matt, it was an incomplete song with a different title. We had been working on it for a while without ever quite feeling like it was done. Matt brought fresh eyes to the song and helped us find the right focus, and within a few hours, “Finished Work of Christ” was completed.
This song has become another anthem for our church and a beautiful reminder of the certainty and enduring hope of the Gospel.
What is the greatest hope you all have for this album and what’s next for Life.Church Worship?
As people sing these songs, we hope they’re reminded of and encouraged by God’s faithfulness. He sees us, He is for us, and He wants a relationship with us. No matter what we’re experiencing—seasons of sorrow or joy—God will always be right beside us.
Tell us about your partnership with YouVersion.
YouVersion is the world’s first and most downloaded Bible app, and it was born out of our church. As a church, we’re so honored to steward this incredible platform and help people grow in their intimacy with God through His Word. We’ve created Bible Plans that combine devotional content and Scripture with our music, and our worship pastors often teach a portion of Scripture for the Verse of the Day Stories feature.
What propels our church forward is our mission to lead people to become fully devoted followers of Christ, and we love that we get to partner together with YouVersion in various ways to help people deepen their relationship with Jesus.
How autonomous is each worship team at your campus?
We have 41 physical locations across 12 states, with more locations opening later this year. Since our locations are so geographically spread out, we work to make sure we’re balancing the tension of creating cultural consistency across all locations while still allowing our Worship Pastors to meet the needs of their specific communities.
So what we’ve done is created what we call our “song bank” - a list of 35-40 songs that each campus pulls from to create their setlists for the weekend. We refresh the song bank on a quarterly basis, removing songs as they age out in our context (usually once they’ve been in the bank about 2 years), and adding new songs in as we write them, or as certain songs written by others are moving the heart of the capital C church.
Additionally, Worship Pastors across all locations are in constant communication with each other, collaborating together creatively and pastorally, getting feedback and bouncing ideas off of one another. So that no one Worship Pastor is ever having to make decisions in isolation! We find this helps create cultural consistency, while still allowing Worship Pastors the autonomy to make the best decisions for their community context.
Our Central Worship Team and other Life.Church Central teams work to resource all Worship Pastors with the content and tools they need (everything from stems and lyric videos to equipment and tech support) so that they can spend less time focused on curating the building blocks of their weekend worship sets and more time focused on the most important part of their roles - pastoring the people in their communities throughout the week!
Life.Church Worship | Grace Upon Grace
Lead songs from Grace Upon Grace with your congregation.