By India McCarty
Worship supergroup Sons of Sunday — Pat Barrett, Chris Brown, Brandon Lake, Chandler Moore, Leeland Mooring and Steven Furtick — call their debut album a “celebration” of their faith.
“We’ve all done worship music in different forms for a long time,” Brown told Relevant Magazine. “But this felt different. It was still worship, but from another angle — like celebration instead of desperation. Like singing from victory instead of begging for it.”
Sons of Sunday started as a bit of a joke, with the six members texting about what it would be like to start a band, using all the songs they hadn’t been able to use in their own music careers.
Each member of the group is a successful worship artist; Barrett is a worship leader and songwriter, Brown leads Elevation Worship, Lake is a Grammy award-winner, Moore is part of Maverick City Music, Mooring performs with the band LEELAND and Furtick is the founder and lead pastor of Elevation Church.
Finally, they decided to make the joke a reality, meeting up for a few days of recording sessions to see if they really could be a band. Each member brought songs they had previously worked on but had never found a place in their own projects.
Brown said the sessions felt “warm” because “everyone came in confident in who they were, but nobody was trying to outshine anyone.”
“When you come in and no one’s trying to impress anyone, something honest happens,” Barrett explained. “We weren’t aiming to polish. We were aiming to tell the truth.”
He added, “I can’t listen to the album without smiling. And I don’t mean that in a cheesy way. I mean it in a ‘something in me is being reminded of joy’ kind of way.”
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In a December Instagram post, Mooring shared his thoughts on the recording process, writing, “I’m not too sure I have the words to describe this special journey I’ve been on with my friends except that, the discovery of the living God in the mystery of making music might be one of the common denominators in this group of sons.”
The self-titled album debuted in May and has already racked up over 18 million streams on Spotify.
“Grateful for the time we spent together in God’s presence while creating this album,” Sons of Sunday wrote in an Instagram post. “We laughed, we cried, and made memories we will never forget. These songs mean the world to us — and now we get to share them with you.”
So, what’s next for the Sons of Sunday?
While a second album is “not on the books,” according to Barrett, he hopes the group will get back together and make new music soon.
“There’s been talk of doing a one-night-only show,” Brown said. “Maybe at the Ryman. Or Dollywood. Six nights a week, two matinees on Sundays. We’re dreaming big.”
Worship fans are loving this supergroup and can’t wait to see where Sons of Sunday go from here!
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