{"id":5064,"date":"2022-12-27T16:26:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T21:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/?p=5064"},"modified":"2022-12-27T16:26:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T21:26:16","slug":"matthew-west-shares-beautiful-video-of-crowd-singing-silent-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/2022\/12\/matthew-west-shares-beautiful-video-of-crowd-singing-silent-night.html","title":{"rendered":"Matthew West Shares Beautiful Video Of Crowd Singing &#8216;Silent Night&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5070\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5070\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5070\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/409\/2022\/12\/matthew-west-song_credit-matthewjwest-instagram-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">@matthewjwest \/ Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Grammy nominated Christian singer-songwriter Matthew West took to Instagram to share a beautiful video of his crowd of 4,500 people singing &#8216;Silent Night&#8217; acapella. \u201cWanna hear what a sold-out crowd of 4,500 people singing &#8216;Silent Night&#8217; together sounds like?\u201d the five-time Grammy nominee captioned the video shared to his Instagram page.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/CmRnV6yj-J8\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; 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Many followers praised the video saying, &#8220;This is the most amazing thing I\u2019ve ever seen. So beautiful, sound and visual,\u201d and &#8220;Beautiful, absolutely beautiful and when you think that the praise in Heaven will sound more beautiful than this our minds cannot comprehend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not only is West a talented musician, he is also the author of the book &#8220;The God Who Stays,&#8221; where he describes it as his &#8220;most personal book to date.&#8221; In a recent interview with The Christian Post, West spoke about his spiritual relationship God and how He doesn&#8217;t move on from us. \u201cGod doesn\u2019t move on. Even when the rest of the world does, He stays with you. And He walks with you, no matter how long it takes,\u201d he said. \u201cOur world is in the business of moving on. We&#8217;re already on to the next crisis. If you turn on the news today, it&#8217;ll be a different crisis than they were highlighting yesterday; the world moves on. But when we&#8217;re still stuck in our grief, or we&#8217;re still stuck in our anxiety, we&#8217;re still wrestling with our depression, we&#8217;re still battling our demons and our addictions, there&#8217;s One who promises that He&#8217;s not going to leave us. Even if the world says, \u2018Too much for me, I&#8217;m moving on,\u2019 He stays, He stays, He stays.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grammy nominated Christian singer-songwriter Matthew West took to Instagram to share a beautiful video of his crowd of 4,500 people singing &#8216;Silent Night&#8217; acapella. \u201cWanna hear what a sold-out crowd of 4,500 people singing &#8216;Silent Night&#8217; together sounds like?\u201d the five-time Grammy nominee captioned the video shared to his Instagram page. &nbsp; View this post&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":5070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin 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