Chris Tomlin: Worship Under the Stars — The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park

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Ten thousand people close their eyes at once and the silence that follows is not awkward and not waiting. Everyone inside it is somewhere else entirely, and somehow all in the same place.

The songs have been sung in churches across every denomination for two decades — How Great Is Our God, Good Good Father, Holy Forever — which means most of the harbor already knows every word without looking at a screen. Hearing them outdoors, with the bay behind the stage and nothing overhead, is the version of worship that remembers it started outside, before anybody built walls for it.

One of the most prolific songwriters in contemporary Christian music, on the San Diego waterfront, on a Sunday evening in September.

This is the night your small group has been waiting for without knowing it was coming. Send it to whoever holds that group together.