Hillsong United

Last night I headed out to the Tampa Bay Forum to go see the group Hillsong United in concert for their Aftermath tour.

The hockey arena holds a capacity of 21,500 people for concerts and that place was packed with a select amount of seats open. My seat was very far back in the third tier and off to the side, but it was still enjoyable all the same! I had completely forgotten that they were Australian until they started talking! They all had really long hair, silly Australians! :]

They played almost every song that I had hoped for! They opened up with the song Go! They also played Mighty to Save, Hosanna, The Stand (just the chorus), Shout Unto God, Aftermath, Break Free, Take Heart, Rhythms of Grace, Search My Heart, From The Inside Out, Like An Avalanche, Nova, Bones, Take It All, All I Need Is You, Your Name High and a few others that I didn't know. As much as I loved hearing their wonderful voices singing I also loved when they would stop singing and I could hear the thousands of voices singing!

I loved the woman singer, I have always loved her voice, so incredibly beautiful! And of course, they all were amazing singers live! They had five different singers who would lead in different songs and two different drummers who played at the same time which was interesting. This is because they started as a normal worship band at a church who made it big. They danced around the stage a lot which made me smile.

The best part of the concert was being surrounded by 20,000 other people all singing these powerful worship songs in unison to God. Looking around and seeing thousands of hands stretched up in the air, it was fantastic! The band did little short talks in between the songs as expected. The thing that stuck out the most to me was when he said something along the lines of, we can try and work our way closer to God our whole lives, but we will never be any closer than we are now because God came to us.

The last song that they played had a chorus of Ooos in it. When they left the stage the crowd cheered for an encore and then we all started singing the Ooos to call them back! They came and played three more songs! Although I didn't know them, the build up in them was so incredible, it was a great finish!