BC News|November 20, 2014 09:48 EST
Lincoln Brewster Explains 'Made New' Song off of Hit Album 'Oxygen' [VIDEOS]
Christian worship artist Lincoln Brewster recently spoke about his hit song "Made New" and explained the chorus of the song gave him a vision of the impact it would make in churches.
"I actually heard the chorus to the song, it was written by a couple of guys here locally," he said in an interview with Air1Radio. "It gripped me in a pretty profound way. My first thought, I just had this picture in my mind of people singing those words just going for it in church - hands up and singing 'you hold my head up, you remind me of who I am'.
"'I'm alive in you again, and made new', he continued. "It's so essential as Christians that we get that message and understand that God is in our lives. So we worked on it and probably wrote the verse like five times or something like that, and did it in church the first time."
Brewster said the experience of playing it for the first time in a church was just like his vision. People had their hands up and were singing the chorus in an almost anthemic type of way. It was a rally cry and a powerful moment.
"I'll just never forget it. It was unbelievable."
Watch Brewster on Air1 Radio below:
Watch the performance below:
Brewster's Oxygen album debuted at No. 1 on the Praise & Worship Albums chart and No. 2 on the Billboard Contemporary Christian Albums chart when the record released August 19.
Brewster recorded these songs in the midst of a storm in his life. His wife had been battling with a rare form of cancer.
"When you focus on the certainties of God in the middle of your uncertainty, you breathe in and exhale and put one foot in front of the other until you finish what He has put you here to do," Brewster said in a release, "We mix up facts and Truth all the time, but Truth doesn't change because of facts. My job as a worship leader is to sing and speak Truth whether I feel it or not.Whether the facts of our lives seem to match up or not, the Truth is we exist to praise God."
Watch BreatheCast's interview with Brewster below:
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