You can really build your life on them and you can rely on the truth of who God is and the way that He's taught us to build our lives. I think that for my life, since I became a Christian, I've known that the principles of God and the teachings of Christ. How does Christ show his strength in your life?īen Fielding: I love how the scriptures say that, "No foundation can be laid other than that which has already been laid," and that which is Christ Jesus. HG: Cornerstone, the album, seems to ask listeners who they turn to for strength. To me, there's nothing else you want to be singing in a time like that and projecting that Christ is the foundation even when everything looks uncertain. The new chorus that, "Christ alone, Cornerstone, weak made strong, in the Savior's love," to me that's just when everything is shaken and nothing seems to make sense, we really need to just be building our lives and putting our faith and our trust in the Cornerstone, the Foundation and it's Jesus. We wrote, and basically because that hymn that says "My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness." That just felt like the right thing to be singing. We just wanted to write a song that was going to help church respond to people coming to church, respond to what had happened, and just be able to make a bit of sense of it. So I got together with a couple of my friends, and we were talking about it. Everybody is related or knows somebody that is affected. It's the kind of thing that turns the place upside down. As you can imagine, everyone was just really shaken by the event. I was in Scandinavia, and I was leading worship at our church there in Stockholm. Reuben Morgan: Last year when that happened, I was in Sweden, actually. Hannah Goodwyn: The title track for Cornerstone was born out of the 2011 shooting massacre in Norway when Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people. Here are excerpts from that conversation: Recently, Morgan and Fielding shared how the 2011 shooting massacre in Norway contributed to their song, "Cornerstone", how God gives them strength in difficult trials and why they share their worship with the world. iTunes overall album chart in its first week of release showing the reach of the well established worship team from Australia. CBN.com - Hillsong LIVE worship leaders' Reuben Morgan and Ben Fielding build their hope on Jesus Christ and the group's latest album, Cornerstone, testifies to that.
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