I’ll admit, I like Chris Tomlin… And I do like Kari Jobe. Matt Redman, Kristian Stanfill, etc. But this… This… I wasn’t there, but this is all so wrong. I understand that finding God and feeling Him and participating in worship is a blessing… But how can this not be aggrandizing the celebrity of the worship leaders involved? It’s obviously modeled after the mainstream flash bang shows, a la VMAs, and what are those for? They are designed to worship the celebrity, and the music is all but secondary.
On top of it all, you have top-notch musicians like Chris and Matt pick-synching… Chris wants to be playing, he threw a capo on, but his guitar is nowhere in the mix. And it looks like Matt’s not even mic’ed. Kari has a mic, but where’s her voice? Everyone just disappears. It’s show and spectacle. Wrenches my heart.