How Red Rocks Worship Wants to Draw Closer to God
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Several Members of Red Rocks worship sat down this month with Joshua Swanson on “The Walk” podcast to talk about their band identity, touring, their latest album, and a new record they’ll start recording in July.
“Sometimes you’re called to a place and sometimes you’re called through a place and so we’ve had worship leaders that have come and gone we’re just here to build a local church,” Worship leader Tyler Roberts said about why the group calls themselves a collective. “That’s the way it is for us so when we say collective it’s like, ‘Hey, for now this is the collective it could change to you know in the future it has changed before.’”
“It’s awesome because we’re a collective and the Lord just keeps bringing gifts to our team and so here we are,” Roberts told Editor-in-Chief of Worship Leader Magazine, Joshua Swanson, on the Walk Podcast June 14.
Red Rock consists of nine members who share their original music at Red Rocks Church campuses in Texas, Colorado and in Belgium, as well as concerts across the U.S.
“I feel like every city, every church like just has a different feeling,” singer Sydney Bakken said. “You can feel the history. You can feel kind of what’s happening there without even people saying a word because I think we’re all spiritual beings.”
“Like, that’s how the Lord created us, with that discernment and…it’s a gift really,” Brakken continued. “So it is interesting, this church specifically, where we’re here in Portland at Rose Church there’s just a lightness here you can almost feel the history like there’s stained glass, there’s pews and it just feels like there’s just a sweetness to it.”
Ascend
The group is currently on tour for their most recent album, “Ascend,” and they have a new, untitled album underway.
“We don’t even know actually what the songs are,” Roberts said June 14. “We just know we are recording in like next month. It’s officially next month.”
Songwriter and singer Kory Miller’s favorite song from their last album is the title track, “Ascend.”
“It took so many years to be able to write that song and to be able to sing it with Integrity,” he shared. “For our team, we mentioned it earlier–the collective nature of our team, we all think individually and then it turned into corporately as a team. Had to go through some pretty intense years of brutal repentance. Like, brutal”
“There were some things that were off in our hearts and I won’t speak for my teammates I’ll speak for myself,” he continued. “There was just things that the Lord needed–honesty from me, yeah to actually clean and actually redeem and I would pick that song because…I now have such a visceral connection to like who gets to ascend the hill of the Lord.”
He continued, “Like, who gets to be with him and it’s those with clean hands and a pure heart and you don’t do that with the way that you like behave you do that with surrender you do that with saying like, ‘Oh, you’re everything to me now.”
Miller believes the message of the song is all about Matthew 5:8 “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.” He tears up when he sings the song because he knows the cost that Jesus paid for sin and what God requires of him.
“It’s a special song to me,” Miller continued. “Like I just love in the second verse it says, ‘We can ascend the mountain of God. We have clean hands. We have pure hearts, oh Hallelujah the work of the cross is finished. It’s final. It’s more than enough.’”
“Oh, I can’t sing that without just getting tears. Just to say like it really is…I cannot believe that he’s more than enough,” Miller said.
On August 5th, Red Rocks Worship will join Maverick City Music, Cain, and Thrive Worship at K-LOVE’s Live at Red Rocks concert at the Red Rocks amphitheater in Colorado.
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