Chris Tomlin has never headlined a Super Bowl halftime show. He’s never had a TMZ-worthy beef with anybody. He’s never been tapped to shill phones or tacos for a national advertising agency.
But Tomlin’s musical footprint is as big as anyone’s. The singer/songwriter/worship leader has sold millions of albums and been streamed billions of times. Many of us have belted out a Tomlin song or two or 20 at church. By any musical metric you want to use, Tomlin is a megawatt superstar—even if he doesn’t act like it. Rooted in the world of worship music, Tomlin says that he prays for one thing when he goes on stage: That people might have an encounter with God.
But Tomlin has also said that “worship is more about seeing than singing,” and his latest venture is a visual one. He’s serving as an executive producer for The Last Supper, a movie scheduled for release March 14.
When I talked with Tomlin about his involvement with the film, he said it began as you’d expect: with music. “No Greater Love,” a new song by Tomlin, is a part of the movie. He says that the song and the movie dovetail together quite well—even though the song itself was written before he’d seen a frame of the film.
“When those end credits go, and my song starts coming, you would think that I just watched the movie, grabbed my pen and wrote the song from there,” he says. “I didn’t even know the movie when I wrote the song, and that was just another point where God was like, ‘I’m putting this together. I’m connecting you guys.’ And so I was like, ‘How can I get involved [in this film] in a greater way?’”
So, what does that “greater way” look like? And just how did that song—the song that landed in The Last Supper—come about in the first place? That’s a pretty fascinating story.
But don’t take my word for it. Watch the video and hear for yourself.
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