Brandon Lake vividly remembers the night a group of arena security guards accepted Christ during his summer Worship Night tour with Phil Wickham.
It’s 2023, the first year of the tour, and the two singers take to the stage in the final moments of the concert to ask the audience, “Do you want to start a relationship with Jesus or rededicate your relationship to Jesus?” I asked for a show of hands. It’s alive,” Lake says. Suddenly, Lake noticed a commotion in the audience to his left.
“What happened was that when we invited them to raise their hands if they wanted to say yes, apparently the entire security line raised their hands,” Lake told Christian Headlines. told.
Christians in the audience surrounded the guards and helped them take the next step on their spiritual journey.
“Many believers who were there that night ran to the front and celebrated with the security guards,” he added. “It was really cool. Because that’s why we do this. It’s not to entertain. It’s for people to have an encounter with God.”
Tickets went on sale on March 22nd. 2024 Summer Worship Night Tourwill be held in 17 cities and will once again feature Lake and Wickham, with special guest Halvey.
“People will be healed and set free on this night,” Lake said. “…but the main goal is salvation.”
The two award-winning singers joined last year’s Summer Worship Nights Tour as fans of each other’s work.
“It’s a joy to sing his songs and team up with him and come out as a united front against the darkness and everything that people are going through,” Wickham told Christian Headlines.
Wickham also has his favorite moment of the 2023 tour. After a stop on her tour, Wickham received a message on Instagram from a woman who had brought her husband, who is not a Christian, to the concert.
“[She] “Hey, I’ve been praying for my husband to come to Jesus since we got married 20-odd years ago.” And thank you for giving me that moment that night. [of invitation] –Because that night he raised his hand. And everything is different now,” Wickham said.
Another night, the head of security for the Summer Worship Night Tour was rescued. Wickham described the man as a tough “soldier” who traveled with artists, but was not himself a Christian.
“Then a few weeks later he came to both of us,” Wickham said. “He just said, ‘Hey, there’s something different going on here.’ And in that moment, I didn’t know what to do. When I was a child, I wanted to follow Jesus.”
The man accepted Christ.
“He’s following Jesus now,” Wickham said.
“It’s a sign to me that’s like, ‘Thank you, God, you could be part of this,'” he added.
The security chief’s story still makes Lake cry, he says.
“The family of God changes,” Lake said. “God is moving”
“I can’t wait to get home and tell my son that I’m a Christian,” the man told Lake.
Wickham and Lake said they are praying for a similar encounter with Christ during their 2024 tour.
“If you take me and Brandon there, it’s going to be a party,” Wickham said. “You know, there’s a lot of joy, there’s a lot of jumping up and down. But what was really in our hearts from the beginning was we wanted to see people come to Jesus and be in Jesus.” All I wanted to do was see my mind renewed.”
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Michael Faust has covered the intersection of faith and news for 20 years. His story was published in Baptist Press. Christianity Today, Christian Poecent, of leaf chronicle, of toronto star and of knoxville news sentinel.
