![]() ![]() The song also managed to peak at number thirty-five on the Billboard Holiday Songs chart and twenty-nine on the Billboard Adult R&B Songs chart. The song topped the Billboard Gospel Songs chart in 2012, as well as the corresponding digital and airplay gospel charts. However, Cobbs' interpretation of the song is the first commercially successful and accepted within the gospel community, of the trio. The song was later covered by Jesus Culture in 2011. The song was originally written and performed by Will Reagan and the United Pursuit Band in 2009. The songs features guest vocals performed by Timiney Figueroa from Hezekiah Walker's Love Fellowship Crusade Choir. ![]() The song was composed by Will Reagan, produced by VaShawn Mitchell and released as the album's lead single. I, personally, love the song because it reminds me why we live where we live and do the acts of justice we do."Break Every Chain" is a song performed by American recording artist Tasha Cobbs from her major-label debut studio album Grace (2013). It’s like cool water after a long hard run. ![]() Anyway, songs like this mean a lot to those of us living in tense neighborhoods having hard conversations, seeing addictions being broken (miraculously, but often with lots of work and sacrifice). I think this applies to many of the songs we sing, “No Other Name” is the first that comes to mind. Part of the reason Jake and I like it so much is that we associate it with the “love the widow, orphan, do justice” tradition. Sure, I understand your friend’s concern, but I think because NCF is so blatantly opposed to any bad theology that tries to control God (prosperity gospel…etc), that people would not associate the song with a “Word of Faith” tradition. If you still are concerned about the meaning of the song being misunderstood, you could pair the song with a hymn like “And Can It Be” to drive home that there is power in the name of Jesus because of the work that Jesus accomplished in the cross and the resurrection.Īmen to singing it as a confession instead of some kind of incantation (really well articulated). The name of Jesus is the only power by which racism, violence, drugs, hate, fear, etc can be overcome. We followed the song with prayers for the chains of sin to be broken in our lives as well as the chains of injustice and addiction that hold our communities in bondage. I’m not going to say every church should sing it, but it especially struck a chord with my church. In the name of Jesus, we are no-longer slaves to sin but sons and daughters and fellow heirs with Christ. Through that confession and the praise of his name, Paul and Silas had their chains literally fall off. His name stands forever as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords in an eternal kingdom where all forms of slavery have been defeated. A confession in particular that “Jesus” is the only name by which we are saved and the only name that we call Lord. I think that this song works best if we maintain that “the name of Jesus” is not some kind of incantation, but rather a confession. In addition, you can find this stuff in many of “the good old hymns” too: Still, there’s plenty of biblical examples of the role of the Messiah in breaking the chains of the prisoner and the captive. That whole, “speak the name of Jesus and your dreams will become manifest” sort of thing. We first sung it at the end of “Jesus at the Center” and we didn’t have to explain much after singing the last verse of that song “Jesus at the center of your church…every knee will bow and every tongue shall confess you, Jesus”Ī friend of mine recently wrote to me asking if we sing the song and what I thought about it having a “Word of Faith” kind of vibe to it. This song kind of blew up at our church this past summer and it’s really struck a chord especially as we’ve been processing the Ferguson mess.
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