Now I’m finding it gets used all over the world, by all sorts of churches it seems to be as accessible to a traditional church as it is to a house church, and I’m excited by that. It just makes his sacrifice all the more personal, all the more amazing, and all the more humbling.Īs I was thinking through this, I just began to sing the melody, and it flowed in the sort of way that makes you think you’ve pinched it from somewhere! So the melody was pretty instant, but the words took quite a bit of time, reworking things, trying to make every line as strong as I could. And what was my part in it? Not only was it my sin that put him there, but if I’d lived at that time, it would probably have been me in that crowd, shouting with everyone else ‘crucify him’. Nevertheless, I’d been meditating on the cross, and in particular what it cost the Father to give up his beloved Son to a torturous death on a cross. But I don’t go home at the end of a busy day and put on a hymns album! So I don’t think of hymns as where I’m at musically at all! But I distinctly remember getting this feeling one day that I was going to write a hymn! Now, like most people, I am familiar with hymns – they form part of my church background, and I love the truth contained in many of them. I’d already written quite a few songs for worship, but all in a more contemporary worship style, drawing from my own musical background. Writing this song was an unusual experience for me.
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