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But so much of who we are um is deeply rooted in the testimony of Jesus. Our church, our church is really built around a constant reminder of his agony and the pain, the suffering of Christ, the the holes in his hands and his feet, the way that he was spit out and and bruised and marked, the way that they falsely accused him and >> [music] >> and hated him, the one who who healed their sick and he raised their dead and he fed them when they were hungry, gave them living water, the one >> [music] >> nurtured them, cared for them, loved them, nailed to a tree with holes in his hands and his feet, a crown of thorns on his head. And with every with every bruise, with every lash, with every >> [music] >> marking, it was it was with the intention to to restore humanity back into the image and likeness of Jesus.

What we're not expressing or what what we don't want to do, the perspective we don't want to go in with this [music] how do we enter an industry or how do we make our way into an industry, but rather um rather how do we translate the sounds and the of heaven, how do we translate the heart of heaven over over our church, over our city, over this region >> [music] [singing] [music] >> This is not music for music's sake, this isn't songs for song's sake, this is because he asked. This is because this is what he wants, this is because this is a request and and we are here to bring him what he wants. Um to honor him, to serve him, to minister to him and that he would ask for this is just unthinkable to me.

Unthinkable. All the things [music] that he could ask for. And that he would give us an instrument on the inside.

He would give us like, you know, wind in our lungs and and an instrument in our chest that I don't know if we can clap our hands, we can stomp our feet, we can play our instruments. And he made available to us an offering that he asks for. I mean, how crazy is that?

And I and I just think like man, anything that we think on our resume or our accolades that >> [music] >> is impressive all bows to the fact that he >> [laughter] >> he built this on the inside. That he gave us what we have so that we can give it back to him. And and that is what this is.

And that's the heartbeat that I can feel here today. That I feel through a screen and I feel here today is just the honoring of >> [music] >> Jesus Christ. And any other agenda, any other purpose, any other reason falls on its face before him.

Everything else, every other agenda, any other purpose falls before him. An offering to him. I don't even know.

I was just I played the same chord progression for 2 hours, so I don't even know. [laughter] We started off with the Yeah, I don't even know. >> [gasps] >> We started off with a song with with like an old song.

I forgot what it was. It was Alpha Omega or something like that. And Um And then somewhere along the lines we started to go into Well, someone was praying.

Moses was praying. And he said something he was he was he was praying and he said something along the lines of like we want to know we want to know we want to understand we want to see the real love. Like we want to know the real love.

And and I don't know, almost like instantly instantly a like with the chord progression >> [music] >> Do you know what I'm saying? Something like that that still has a little movement, a little bit of lift, but like quite It's a lift, but not jolting and it's not a break but it's just kind of pretty. airy, pretty >> Yeah, yeah.

I wonder just to differentiate a bit. >> No, I think that's a great I think that's a great idea. Does that sound more [laughter] Does that sound kind of scary?

Too much? No, I I think just the the the minor does that, you know, the minor kind of gives It makes it makes it feel it's got a uniqueness like Miracle Maker A LITTLE BIT. OH.

>> [laughter] >> Are we talking Delirious? Are we talking Delirious? Oh, that song.

Yes. Yes. >> one.

>> [music] >> Does that feel like a weird jump into the chorus? I I think that's what I'm trying to envision. Where would it Where would it go from there?

>> Right, right. However, I I suppose what we could also what we could potentially introduce is have a two uh build two verses before we get to the to build more of the story line at the beginning before we jump into Yes. Yeah, yeah.

The chorus. Um And then perhaps the ending of the second verse can can be adjusted to fit the >> yep. That's great.

Maybe after the verse we can use the [music] tag one that this is real life and then we can go for it because I think it's match according to scale there. Do you guys mind singing the chorus just down the octave one more time? Mhm.

Okay, yeah. The scars on [singing and music] your back the wounds in your side this is real [music] life the wounds in [singing] your head the scars [music] on your back the wounds in [singing] your side this is [music] real life >> Okay. The holes in his hands, they're bleeding.

The Yeah. The scars in his back, the Very descriptive. Yeah, like Um I think I think that you know, I I teach I share this at church.

Um God, you know, we're like Jesus is God. He is Yes. of utmost uh beauty and wonder and glory and creativity.

And Jesus, when he when he appeared to John, I mean, he could have he could have made himself look like absolutely anything. I mean, like possibilities are limitless and endless. And yet, for some reason, he shows up and his eyes are like fire, his hair like Well, why wasn't his eyes, you know, green like the forest >> Yeah.

or blue like the vast oceans or >> Yeah. glittering like pure gold or whatever. Yeah.

So so when Jesus reveals himself, he it's in what he's depicting, in what he's uh exposing himself as he's trying to he's communicating a message. He's There's a revelation there. >> Yeah.

Um but I think that's that's where I I think our like my heart at least is like when when I communicate and whether it's preaching or [music] Yes. I really want to like get that tone right. Because these verses, especially a song at the house, all like >> Yeah.

I want your your a very specific communication style that you have. It's really beautiful. And [music] really want to honor that, especially, you know, in verses like this where it is very like heavy depicting, heavy storytelling, to be sure you feel like it's like the way that you would.

>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

No, thank you. >> So I can throw some I can throw some like preliminary stuff, but I also I think if we want like a phrasing that is a little bit more extended, just so we kind of buy a little bit more like meat for our verses. I think we can rethink um cuz these are like four syllables for the first line.

If If we're just like what we know about this house is we just want a little bit more. >> [laughter] >> Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

Cuz we could do like Yeah, despised and seen a man of grief, he gave his life his life for us. That would be a very like abbreviated like But I think that we can bulk that and with a different melody, that's going to give a little bit more room for you to Yeah, put some Yeah, deeper thought into it. Totally.

Let's Let's get the words out, you know? >> it be too I'm wondering would it be too early to to introduce the to introduce like he bore our griefs, carried our sorrows, >> [music] >> pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities portion um as verse two or somewhere in [music] there, something of that nature? >> Mhm.

Oh, I don't I think I think we could totally do that. Cuz if it goes from love So God so loved the world, he gave his son. And then it starts elaborating on what giving his what giving his life looked like.

So the bearing griefs, carrying sorrows, pierced I feel like it's all building like melodically and then even like um lyrically I feel like it's like wants to culminate at some bit like a like the son of God hung on a cross. The You like I want like a summary cuz all of it are parts and pieces of what is real. But I want like a and I want um um Which that could be a part B.

Yeah, like I had like >> The song sounds almost like it is finished. >> Yeah. Yeah, like I I want like a big The Yeah, it feels like these these are all gathering gathering gathering and we want like a Yeah, that's it.

And I think that's where I kind of like I want a chorus that Yeah, yeah, okay. That's the big picture. Cuz it's like the intricate pieces and then Cuz yeah.

Cuz the love of the I'm wondering if the love of the father or you were singing could be some sort of tag. I get cuz I think if it's I'm thinking or bridge. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Yes. And I'm thinking love of the father and [music] think then my brain goes to like think agony of the son.

Um the uh you know something along the lines like of The words that come to mind is like an invasion of the spirit. Like like uh Yes. Like uh Yes.

>> Is Yeah, just like cutting through walls and Yeah. >> Um Yes. Okay, okay.

The affection of the father, the passion of the son, the power of the spirit, this is love. The access [music] to your kingdom. Access to your kingdom.

Um Verse we can start in major and then jump later Mhm. to minor. Yeah, that's kind of And from Yeah, yeah.

So which means a flat. >> [music] >> And then at some point But verse could be in major then. >> [singing] >> Could you just try to play something like Yeah, I would like the verse.

Can you like if I'm >> [singing and music] [music] >> You can tell me if it's not really capturing it, but the first half Jesus your testimony speaks for eternity, your love def- or your life defining love itself. Does that feel like it talks about the culmination of who he is? Like that testimony.

Does that do justice to the >> I I think so. Can you can you [music] play it? Or >> [music] [singing] [music] >> And then we could go to talk about the cross, [music] maybe.

Yeah. [singing] >> [music] [singing] [music] >> And then there could be like a little turn to line us [singing] to God. Yeah.

>> [music] >> Yeah. >> If we wanted a little channel, but I'm just wondering if it if we wanted like expound or that doesn't kind of convey the beginning to end story. >> I'm wondering if we if we went from Jesus, your testimony speaks for eternity, your life defining love itself into into um something along the lines of like crucifixion or crucified, rejected and despised.

>> Okay, great. Yeah. Yes.

>> [singing] [music] [singing] [music] [music and singing] [music] [singing] [music] [singing and music] [music] [singing and music] [music] [singing] [music] [singing and music] [singing and music] >> We have finished [music] on different chords. Oh, okay. Let's do that third [music and singing] one again.

Let's do it one last time. >> [singing and music] [music and singing] [music and singing] [music and singing] [singing and music] >> The ransom you >> [singing and music] [singing and music] [music] [singing] [singing and music] [music] [singing] [music] >> So do we have three verses or what? Well, we were just we were kind of Yeah, yeah, yeah.

>> of testing both. I mean I'm wondering if if the two of them together is just one verse. Yeah, yeah, yeah, true.

So we might need a uh like a fourth section or or a second Like almost a pick up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> [music] [singing] [music] >> I have to jump back quickly.

>> Well, it's supposed to be cuz it's not supposed to be a continuation. It's supposed to be the past. >> [singing] >> I got that.

>> [music] >> I should go somewhere. I cannot stay on one. Could you go on because you have to Is it like a five-ish feeling?

[music] >> [singing] [music] >> five >> [music] [singing] >> I like I think I we need you to start playing the chorus already, the one of the chorus. >> [music] [singing] >> Cuz [music] you're sitting on this note. Okay, try.

>> [singing] [music] [singing] [music] >> Yeah. What it does, I mean, I like I know that it's going to feel weird cuz it has You guys haven't like sung it that way, but it puts the title and kind of the meat of it at the top in kind of a nice way. >> Yeah, I agree.

This this is real hard [singing] on your hands, the scars on your back, wound in your side, broken for us. [singing] Da, da, da, da, da. This is real love.

This is real [singing] love. I almost want to hear it like this is real love. Da, da, [singing] da, da, da.

Da, da, da, da. Da, da, da, da. broken for us.

Or this is real [singing] love. I I almost like I feel like it feels chory that way. Yeah, yeah.

To like Yeah. make the big statement at the top and then explain it with the the follow-up kind of phrases. This is real love.

Wait, can you do can you sing it? Can you sing uh can you play it? >> [music] >> Uh from let's [singing] do Very slow.

Yeah. [music] Uh Jesus. Jesus taking on our >> [singing and music] >> sickness.

Rejected, >> [music] >> afflicted, >> [music] >> the love of God poured out for us. This is real love. The host of heaven >> [music] >> Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. the stars aligned. The world on your side.

>> [singing] >> This is real love. >> [singing and music] >> Da, da, da, da, da. I like it.

Da, da, da, da. >> [music] >> Da, da, da, da. >> [singing] >> This is real love.

This is real >> [music] >> stars aligned. The world on [music and singing] your This is The host of Yeah. Stars aligned.

>> [music and singing] >> The world on This is >> [singing] >> Is it? Okay, would it be doing the most if we did if it went a holes in your hands, scars on your back, the wound in your side, I think you said broken for us, right? Broken for us, and then and then what if we once we get through the bridge and we reintroduce the chorus into into um the holes in your hands, the scars on your back, the wound in your side, and then the big the the big this is real love.

You know what I mean? So that so that once uh we don't we kind of like keep it uh keep it relatively low up until we finish the bridge, and then you kind of just like Mhm. Mhm.

Or is or is that too is that is that for >> are keeping it low cuz we're going to do octave octave lower. But I just mean even lyrically. Like lyrically if we if we did what Cali's saying is the holes in your hands, scars on your back, wound in your side, broken for us.

And then and then we go into bridge, get all the way through the bridge as it's built up, and then you go back into um the holes in your hands, the scars on your >> it Yeah, the wound in your side, and this is or however you however you did it. >> [singing] >> Yeah. Um Or should we just do it from the beginning?

What do you think? I'm curious. I just I feel like it could because it's the meat of the song, like that's the >> to kind of introduce it earlier?

>> Yeah, I want to kind of introduce it early on and keep it. Um this is real love, this is real love. I'm just doing them um I think as we sing it, it'll be apparent if we're borrowing it double or like cutting it out where it's like, "Oh, that actually kind of throws." I just want to make sure we're um every part is leading into itself, and they can stand independently.

Because it is kind of sitting in a funny shared spot. Yeah. Which, I mean, if this works for itself, maybe.

Yeah, I think so. Like, I think we just Yeah, we should just run it and see how it feels. Sure, let's do that.

How otherwise are we feeling [music] on I love what it's communicating. >> Okay, okay, okay. Yeah, yeah.

>> [singing and music] [singing and music] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] >> Yeah, yeah. We have that same >> Oh, it says it in a different It says it in a different uh Because for a No. >> [singing] >> Because what we've [music] been doing Which I do really like those hits.

>> Yeah. >> [singing] >> So, then just how does that get a new chorus again? Uh If it's not the shared, which I I actually like those hits the way we have them better.

>> [music] [singing] >> It's all for And Jesus [music] taking [singing] on our sickness >> [music] >> rejected [singing] and afflicted [music] the Lamb of God for us for us. The holes >> [singing and music] >> in your hands the scars on your back the wound in [singing] your side this [music] is real love the ransom [singing] you paid to conquer the grave the cost [singing and music] of your grace this is real love this is real love this is [music] real Jesus [music and singing] humbling our glory [singing and music] covenant restoring [singing and music] sinners back to God [singing and music] to God. The holes in your [singing and music] hands the scars on your back the wound in your side this [singing and music] is real love the ransom you paid to conquer [singing] the grave the cost of your [music] grace this is real love [singing] this is real [music] love this is [singing] real love.

>> Love. Our healing [singing and music] by your body, our cleansing by your blood. Forever [singing and music] it is finished.

And it is done. The affection of [singing and music] the Father, the passion of the Son, >> [singing] >> the power of the Spirit. >> [music] >> Now we are one and no more separation.

His dwelling place [singing] with us, [music] a kingdom everlasting. This is love. >> [singing] >> Our healing [music] by your body, our cleansing by your blood.

Forever it [singing and music] is finished. And it is done. The affection of the Father, the passion [singing and music] of the Son, the power of the Spirit.

Now we [singing] are >> [music] >> one and no more separation. His dwelling place with us, >> [singing and music] >> a kingdom everlasting. This is love.

>> [music] >> The holes [singing] in your hands, the scars [music] on your back, the wound in your side. >> [singing] [music] >> And this is real love. He laid down his [music] life, >> [singing] >> our God crucified.

And he raises us high. >> [singing and music] >> And this is real love. This is real [singing and music] love.

This is real love. >> [music] >> And this [singing] is real love. This is real love.

This is real love. >> [music] >> real >> [singing] >> This is real love. This [singing] is real love.

>> [music] >> This is real love. The cross is [music] real love. The blood is real love.

He is real love. >> [singing and music] >> This is real love.