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"Christ is Enough" is going to be the "Cornerstone" of Hillsong Live's forthcoming album "Glorious Ruins."  "Glorious Ruins" is anticipatorily one of this year's most long awaited worship albums.  Recorded in October of last year and again in February early this year, this twenty second album of this Australia mega church was recorded in London, England and Sydney, Australia.  It will also feature three songs co-written by Brooke Ligertwood (aka Brooke Fraser) who wrote "Hosanna," "Desert Song" and "Beneath the Waters (I Will Rise)."  Earlier in the year, in the time around Easter, we were blessed to hear Ligertwood's co-write "Man of Sorrows" released as the album's lead single.  Now we are in for another treat, this time from the pen of Hillsong's worship pastor Reuben Morgan.  Morgan was first credited as a song writer for Hillsong Live in 1996 with the worship ballad "I Give You My Heart."  And over the years, his songs such as "Mighty to Save," "God is Able" and "Believe" have resourced a huge portion of our churches' worship oeuvre.  Now, he is back to sing lead on his self-penned "Christ is Enough."

"Christ is Enough" has impressed Hillsong's senior pastor Brian Houston so much that he even crafted a sermon based on the song preaching it across the Hillsong campus on Sunday May, 19, 2013.  "Christ is Enough" is a stately anthemic ballad not that different from last year's "Cornerstone."  Lyrically, the song comes in two connected thoughts:  starting off with a soft burning passion about the eminence of Christ based on Colossians 1:15-20. It builds and builds in momentum until its chorus.  By the time the chorus starts, we are in for a glorious chant.  Here the music literally stops as Morgan and team declare with majestic aplomb "Christ is enough for me."  Hearing over 10,000 worshippers announcing this Biblical truth is so glorious that it is like hearing heaven crashing down on earth. 

Then the song effortlessly segues into the second part where the song answers the question of "So what? If Christ is enough what then is our response?"  Here Morgan answers it artfully by tagging on the chorus of the hymn "I Have Decided to Follow Jesus."  If Christ is enough, our response is to follow Him with the cross before us and the world behind us.  In this song Morgan doesn't just extol the majestic supremacy of Christ but he goes further,this incomparable Jesus wants us to be like Him.  Just as Jesus carried his cross, He now wants us to carry ours.  Few songs today can so eloquently tie the theme of Christ's exaltation on the Cross with cross-carrying discipleship in such dramatic and melodious arrays.  And I am glad to say, "Christ is Enough" is deservingly one of those.