Brandon Lake and Phil Wickham say they're on tour for spiritual impact, not just entertainment

“(Of course) we want people to be entertained when they're sacrificing a lot for a ticket and taking some time off, maybe from work or going to work the next day, maybe tired – but we really want that People are entertained.” an encounter. That's what it's about.

The tour's message is for “someone who is far from God or needs a breakthrough, who needs to meet this living God who loves them so much.”

“That’s what this is about,” Lake said. “Yes, we want them to be entertained, but we want them to come out better than when they came in.”

Wickham recounted a travel story in which a “line of security guards up on the balcony” raised their hands and acknowledged their desire to accept Christ.

“I was so proud of our concertgoers – the people who came to hang out with us,” Wickham said. The fans surrounding the security guards “flooded” them with hugs and encouragement. However, such stories are not “unique to this one night,” Wickham said.

“There is a real family and community spirit on the tour,” he said.

Wickham hopes that the film, like the tour, has impacted people's lives.

“I hope that people in the church see this and are really encouraged by God as they go around the country, the world and in people's lives. “We’re all in this together, one big church just rooting for Jesus,” Wickham said. “We hope that through this documentary people will be saved or recommit their lives to Jesus.”

The film, Wickham added, is a “message to the world that the church is alive.”

For one Directed by Noah Taher, produced by Ken Carpenter (The change) and executive producer is Ben Howard (Blue Wonder, The Long Game).

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Photo credit: ©Facebook/Phil Wickham

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Michael Foust has been concerned with the interface between faith and news for 20 years. His stories have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity Today, The Christian Post, the Leaf-Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Knoxville News-Sentinel.