In their song, Resurrecting, Elevation Worship strives to communicate the narrative of Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection and how it affects everyone who chooses to believe it to be true. Elevation Worship is the worship band at Elevation Church, a multi-campus church founded by Steven Furtick, in which hundreds of thousands of people attend on a weekly basis (Elevationchurch.org). The head pastor Steven Furtick helps write most of Elevation Worship’s music, including this one. This song strives to connect the dots between Jesus’ death and resurrection and believers today. This connection is what causes many people to believe in and follow Jesus today. In Resurrecting the musicians contrast Jesus’ death with His resurrection and describe
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Josephus, a historian, and scholar who lived from 37-100 AD, speaks of the death and resurrection of Jesus in Antiquities 18:63: “Pilate condemned him [Jesus] to be crucified and to die. But those who had become his disciples did not abandon his discipleship. They reported that he had appeared to them three days after his crucifixion and that he was alive” (qtd. in An Arabic Version of the Testimonium Flavianum and its Implications). What Josephus said directly supports the fact that Jesus died and rose again as the songs states in the fourth verse, “The tomb where soldiers watched in vain was borrowed for three days His body there would not remain Our God has robbed the grave” (Resurrecting). Origen, a scholar and Christian theologian, also describes the death and resurrection of Jesus in chapter 59 of book II of Contra Celsus: “Jesus, while alive, was of no assistance to himself, but that he arose after death, and exhibited the marks of his punishment, and showed how his hands had been pierced by nails” (Contra Celsus).There are many other historians and people in power during the time of Jesus who also described His death and resurrection. Clearly, His death and resurrection are accurate
Josephus, a historian, and scholar who lived from 37-100 AD, speaks of the death and resurrection of Jesus in Antiquities 18:63: “Pilate condemned him [Jesus] to be crucified and to die. But those who had become his disciples did not abandon his discipleship. They reported that he had appeared to them three days after his crucifixion and that he was alive” (qtd. in An Arabic Version of the Testimonium Flavianum and its Implications). What Josephus said directly supports the fact that Jesus died and rose again as the songs states in the fourth verse, “The tomb where soldiers watched in vain was borrowed for three days His body there would not remain Our God has robbed the grave” (Resurrecting). Origen, a scholar and Christian theologian, also describes the death and resurrection of Jesus in chapter 59 of book II of Contra Celsus: “Jesus, while alive, was of no assistance to himself, but that he arose after death, and exhibited the marks of his punishment, and showed how his hands had been pierced by nails” (Contra Celsus).There are many other historians and people in power during the time of Jesus who also described His death and resurrection. Clearly, His death and resurrection are accurate