17 years later, I’m not unaware of the issues around Jesus Culture as an institution along with its celebrities. I get the problems that came with the replacement of properly participatory worship with a kind of soul-less arena rock.

But re-watching this, I can’t help but think there were a lot of hearts in the right place.

And there is a youthful earnestness, and uninhibitedness in the piece and the performance–yes performance, although this doesn’t mean it’s not worship– that is beautiful to me.

Something about this video still ministers to my heart after all these years.