California-based worship team Thrive Worship release a brand-new project, “Let’s Have Church“, a six-track EP including live songs and a radio version of its first single, ‘Pour Your Spirit Out’. Based in Bayside Church, a multisite ecclesial movement in the northern part of the state, Thrive Worship are the creative expression and extension of what God is doing in their community.
“Let’s Have Church” came from an overflow of songs being poured out within the team where a constant theme of the early church emerged and became the backbone of this new release. Corbin Philipps, one of the founding members of Thrive Worship, shares about the process of this new release: “As we entered into this project, we were pulling from [about] 60 songs, we felt like God was pouring out on us in an authentic, fresh and revelatory way. Acts 2 says that in the last days [God] would pour His spirit out […] we’re seeing God’s spirit in our lives and on our church right now in a way that I’ve personally never seen in the 20-odd years I’ve been coming to this church.”
With the central place of Acts 2 and with songs that are focused on unwrapping the Gospel to everyone, Thrive Worship demonstrate their passion for equipping the church with truth and faith, offering songs of hope for the future and love for Jesus! Yet, they also strike an amazing balance by expressing their heart for missional worship in adopting their community’s approach of “a church for people who don’t like church”. Corbin adds, “we’re writing songs from the heartbeat of testimonies within our church, of our own testimonies, or what we’ve seen God do in our services.”
“Let’s Have Church” promises to be high in energy and celebration, restoring the fun and beauty as well as the personal and communal aspect of what Church is called to be. One of the highlights of the EP is ‘Pour Your Spirit Out,’ a song that shares Corbin’s personal testimony of healing from anxiety and panic attacks after 19 years of struggle. The song encapsulates the message of Thrive Worship’s project; unashamedly declaring the Gospel and reaching straight to the soul. Corbin concludes, “we as Thrive Worship and as songwriters, have a responsibility right now to equip the church with truth and the Gospel, and with the mechanisms to share and to grow that faith.”
“Let’s Have Church” is an approachable, honest and joy-filled project celebrating who the Church truly is!
