We Believe -- Chris Lindsey

This musical artist believes in two words, one might fathom after looking at his biography and his work from 10 years ago (as of 2019). Chris Lindsey believes in the ‘we’ and the ‘worship’ that he brings to the church and the music he’s written, so what else could someone like him write besides a song he calls “We Believe”? He was most likely thinking of spurring worship in the church where he was, most likely in the Nashville, Tennessee area, though that wasn’t the only place about which he might have been thinking as he wrote ‘we’. He went on a worldwide musical tour for a decade, and he might say himself that that was one way of discovering the ‘we’. There’s lots of people inside of that ‘we’ concept, an idea which is embedded in the church where he finds himself. He’s back in the mid-Tennessee area where he was born, where that ‘we’ and ‘worship’ continue to motivate his pursuits.

Chris Lindsey probably still remembers a night at a church in Rochester Hills, Michigan in August 2009. That’s when he himself suggested to an audience that the song he and his friends would play was just a few weeks old. Chris indicated that he’d just taught ‘We Believe’ to a church in acapella (singing-only) style, so his motivation and the audience to whom he presented this musical message were obvious. Believers respond with worship when prompted, especially in the company of others where synergy is at work. That’s why they gather – to edify, to proclaim to each other, and get bit of a preview of what’s to come. It’s a powerful thing to tell each other what we see, to capture a corporate vision. To dream big -- that is what Chris says about himself and the church where he guides the worship and creative arts of the body of believers in Hendersonville, northeast of Nashville. See something larger and grander than what you can actually see with your two human eyes right now. This sensation is embedded in ‘We Believe’, an encouragement to look up and see Him and what He can do, and to thank Him for what He will mean to the believer in the not-too-distant future. ‘Free’ is how Chris describes the believer (v.2) today, a transformation that can be a testimony to others who may be in close proximity but feel the opposite reaction to their circumstances. Expose the darkness to light, that’s what Lindsey says can happen. And, this doesn’t have to end, but is ‘renewed’ (v.3) when He’s in ‘glory’ – what believers comprehend is the great afterlife, heaven.

Chris highlights in his poetry the only response that one can imagine when circumstances have worked out in an amazing way. How do you react when you feel ebullient, perhaps in the best moments of your life? ‘We will sing’ (vv. 1, 3), he exults. All that ‘we believe’ – in the Lord Almighty God, in Jesus, and His kingdom (v.1) – have been verified, and you and I are there to experience the fruits of those beliefs, to see Him in His breathtaking nature (v.3). His ways have also prompted freedom and a receding darkness in the world in which I live terrestrially (v. 2), before I actually receive my eternal reward. These are what made Chris sing in 2009. Do you see what Chris does? Do you want to?  Chris says something else that you and I may not have contemplated: God will sing too! (See Zephaniah 3:17) Imagine that! Is that where that synergy originates?                     

  

See the premier of the song recorded in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i_r6E3kRMk

Also see here for a brief biographic sketch of the author and the church where he ministers: http://wellhousenorth.org/staff/chris-lindsey/