Beautiful Jesus Song Story with Melissa Helser | Songwriting and Worship Leading

This episode is a special conversation between Melissa Helser and Chris Miller. Melissa shares about her song, Beautiful Jesus, and a worship moment from the 2023 18 Inch Journey that was recently shared on the Cageless Birds RUclips channel. She reflects on the season of her life during which that song was first written as well as what it’s like to lead worship within the context of our discipleship schools.
Watch the Beautiful Jesus worship moment on RUclips: • Beautiful Jesus + Jesu...
"Beautiful Jesus" is from the album Beautiful Surrender by Jonathan David and Melissa Helser (2016)
Listen to Beautiful Surrender: lnk.to/beautifulsurrender
Chord Charts and Lyrics: bethelmusic.com/resources/bea...
0:00 - Intro
1:11 - The most recent worship moment on the CB RUclips channel
1:40 - Beautiful Jesus song story
10:14 - The spontaneity of the Beautiful Jesus video
11:03 - What happens written song ends and you step into the patient waiting?
25:26 - Spontaneous moments reflect a specific moment of time with a group of people
26:17 - Sharing a sacred moment with the world
30:22 - The gift of RUclips for sharing worship
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[@TVHouseHistorian]

I love the Farm-to-Table way these people approach worship.

[@organicprinciples]

It's exactly why I love them too. Totally Spirit driven 🥹

[@helenaanderssonandersson9859]

I love that song. And to hear Melissa talking about what Jesus means to her.

[@Holiness.]

We worship You Lord Jesus Christ our Redeemer Savior. Thank you ❤️‍🔥🕊️🐑

[@genesisdelacruz9187]

I hope you can duet Beautiful Jesus with Steffany Gretzinger. Im so longing for it! 😊

[@penimeth6472]

This song has blessed me so much.
Thankful to God and thank you, Melissa, for your faithfulness to carry the song through the years. For sharing the song with the world. 💓

[@heyajoy]

Thank you from Trieste, Italy.

[@kangkandeori8410]

m speechless

[@chicanoinparadise]

I love Melissa

[@belovedworshipmoments]

❤️❤️❤️

[@nathanhigbee7094]

Thank you, Melissa!! So, good!
I have a songwriting question: Many songwriters champion the pursuit of capturing any lyric or melody idea that pricks our hearts. Well, I have devoted myself to such stewardship, but I often feel overwhelmed and scattered by the bulk of spontaneous content I produce. Rarely do I find ideas that I’ll sit on for a while and steward to completion.
So, would you please share your understanding of what healthy song stewardship looks like? What is your take on the whole “crank out ideas so something great will eventually come” pursuit?

[@Bryan_Sims]

Love the podcast, anyone know which worship night w/ the school they were referring to towards the end?

[@Cageless-Birds]

It’s the last worship night from the 2023 school! That is the night we captured the new “Beautiful Jesus“ video that’s on the channel!

[@janadominika]

RepEtition???

[@Cageless-Birds]

Yes! Thanks for the catch, haha! 😅🙌🏼