Five iPhones and a fresh worship experiment

You know how we said that Rend Collective Experiment were something completely different? Well, as if their first album – the astonishingly good Organic Family Hymnal wasn’t crammed full enough of inspirational moments, the band are currently tearing up the YouTube charts with the most outrageously wonderful use of an iPhone ever.

Search YouTube for ‘worship on iphone’ and you’ll come face to face with what happened last month when four of the family unleashed their Inner Geek and allowed it to offer up some pretty unique God-focussed worship.

Using just five iPhones they recreate their own unique version of How Great Is Our God by Tomlin, Reeves and Cash. Acoustic guitars apps, drum apps, electric guitar and string apps… they use them all. As one commenter said, ‘even as a Blackberry fan, this is so creative!’

Gimmicky? Well, here’s the weird thing: it isn’t. Once you get over the initial smiles that arise from the first shots, you see more clearly what’s going on: this is not about the phones, but it’s all about the worship. Unlocked, unchained and using whatever tools there are at hand to reflect back to God a little of his greatness.

The video has been a massive hit, scoring over 25,000 views in the first week alone and taking the number 13 position in the UK’s top rated Entertainment category.

Like everyone else who has met them, we’re banging the drum for Rend Collective
Experiment, fully impressed by their integrity, enchanted by their creativity and drawn in to worship God by their example.

You really ought to join the family.

Check out the video at: www.YouTube.com/watch?v=gaJ4A7mXJH8