Featured Music Video

At CityWest Church, we celebrate diversity.  In this day and age where the masses are bombarded with all sorts of sensory input, it’s easy for the message of the Gospel to be lost in the midst of all the “noise” out there.

Thank God that even His followers are making a lot of noise also – especially in the area of music.  And because we embrace anything that glorifies the message of the Gospel in a true and honest way, we begin a new segment on our blog – featured music video’s.

Here you will find regular postings of the latest and best Christian music video’s.  We embrace any genre – as long as the music and lyrics amplify Christ into the minds of people.

To kick things off, we present Flyleaf – an alternative rock band from Texas.  All 5 band members are Christians and their music is heavy and resonates with a theme of followers of Jesus Christ.  Flyleaf is known for their honest and raw music coupled with lyrics that abandon your typical Christian cliche.  And this suites us perfectly at CityWest Church.  We are a church which pursues relationship – not religion.

Below is the video to Flyleaf’s new song, “Beautiful Bride” from their new album, “Momentum Mori”.  As Christian’s we are the “Bride of Christ” – a beautiful bride which Christ is preparing every day to present to Himself as spotless and pure.

The song talks about how we are all connected to each other through our submission to Jesus.  It also calls for us to rise up and be the Body of Christ as we aught to be.  Awesome theme and awesome lyrics.

Flyleaf’s take on this topic is typically them – heavy music and visuals which may seem uncommon to the typical Christ follower.  Hope you enjoy!  And be sure to check out the lyrics below the song to get the full meaning behind the song.

Beautiful Bride lyrics:

Unified diversity
Functioning as one body
Every part encouraged by the other
No one independent of another
You’re irreplaceable, indispensable
You’re incredible
Incredible

(Chorus)
Beautiful bride
Body of Christ
One flesh abiding
Strong and unifying
Fighting ends in forgiveness
Unite and fight all division
Beautiful bride

Strengthen your arms now
Train your fingers for battle
Urgency’s here now
Train your fingers for battle
Fighting this violence
With your feet wrapped in peace
Sad tears and silence
Now screams of joy
Victory

(Chorus)
Beautiful bride
Body of Christ
One flesh abiding
Strong and unifying
Fighting ends in forgiveness
Unite and fight all division
Beautiful bride

Beautiful bride
Body of Christ
One flesh abiding
Strong and unifying

We’re not gonna fall and forget
How far You went to pick us up
If one part’s hurt the whole body’s sick
If one part mourns we all mourn with Him
Rejoice, and we’ll sing with you
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

(Chorus)
Beautiful bride
Body of Christ
One flesh abiding
Strong and unifying
Fighting ends in forgiveness
Unite and fight all division
Beautiful bride (x2)