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Tomlin holds church at Wild Adventures
VALDOSTA — Christian music fans and Bible groups of all kinds came out to Wild Adventures Saturday evening to see award-winning artist Chris Tomlin as he took the stage.
Tomlin even let fans know through his Twitter account that he was in town by posting “In TitleTown USA tonight. Valdosta, Ga!”
The Texan didn’t make the fans wait long. He and his band played at approximately 6:30 p.m.
Fans wore T-shirts with words such as “Jesus Freaks” and held their hands in the air as Tomlin took the stage singing one of his many hits.
Tomlin didn’t look like your normal Christian singer that you see on television during infomercials for the latest mixed album. He’s wasn’t in his best Sunday outfit.
Tomlin could pass for a rockstar or at least someone whose video is playing on VH1. Members of his band looked like musicians that could pass for members of Matchbox 20 or Coldplay.
He performed many of his songs such as “Let God Arise” and “Everlasting God.” Fans stood the entire time, with their hands in the air as if they were in church.
From the beginning of the concert, fans could tell that this wasn’t the normal concert performance, but more of a gathering to praise God.
During his performance of one of his biggest hits, “How great is our God,” Tomlin told the audience about how in each country that he has gone to sing it, the audience knew the lyrics in theirnative language, whether it was Spanish or Russian.
“No matter where we were, whether they had completely different color of skin, a different story in life, a different way of doing things, a completely different culture, the same thing was true,” Tomlin told the audience. “That there is one great God and he’s holding us all together. There’s a God over Valdosta tonight and a God of the United States but a God of the whole world and he's holding us all together and tonight. I don't have it all together and you don't have it all together but we worship God who holds us all together.”
Tomlin asked the audience to drop their hands from praising and to dance any dance they wanted, even if they didn’t have any rhythm before singing “Dance Generation.” He continued the show with “Holy is the Lord,” “Forever,” “All The Way My Savior Leads Me,” and his latest single, “I Will Rise.”
The only time the audience sat is when Tomlin asked them to. He then preceded to talk to the audience, especially those who hadn’t taken Jesus into their hearts and were in pain.
The sermon lead into his most recent number one hit, “Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone),” which topped the Contemporary Christian charts in 2007.
Tomlin closed the show acoustically without his band, performing his number one hit, “Made to Worship,” before heading backstage to meet with fans, including a three-year-old alligator.
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