Amazing Grace Challenge

Elm Street Christian Church, Springfield, Illinois
Amazing Grace Challenge 2023
#AmazingGraceChallenge

What is the most popular, most influential, most recorded song of all time?
You might be shocked to hear what the Internet says is the answer! As I was prepping for my old radio show, I did a quick trivia search for the “Most Recorded Song.” I thought for sure it would logically be Amazing Grace. After all, it’s been sung around the world in every major language now for 250 years. It helped in the fight to condemn and make slavery illegal across the modern world! It became a universal rally cry against injustice and remains an anthem for freedom, forgiveness, and faith to this very day!

But apparently, a group of Gershwin fans collected 67,591 recordings of the 1930’s song “Summertime.” They then went to the Guinness Book of World Records and claimed it as the “Most Recorded Song.”

Nice song, but that math doesn’t quite seem right. CBS News recently reported that: “Amazing Grace is sung an estimated 10 million times each year.” So one would guess that recordings of “Amazing Grace” should at least be somewhere in the multi-millions. I would also guess, with nearly every church in the modern and free world streaming and recording their services since covid started, it’s quite possible that “Amazing Grace” is recorded more in just one weekend than the claimed 67,591 recordings of “Summertime” collected over its near 90-year history.

In fact, if just 1 in every 1,000 churches around the world sang and recorded Amazing Grace at each of their services on any given Sunday, it would topple the currently claimed record in just 1 day.

Now envision every car or shower singer, all the way up to iconic artists like the ones above pulling out their phones, recording a short little live viral video version (not in the shower please🤣), and posting it on just 1 of their YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter/X, or Instagram accounts with the hashtag in the title #AmazingGraceChallenge.

Let’s defy the division that has stolen center stage in our world. Imagine contagious compassion circling the globe instead with the Good News of Amazing Grace!

I can’t think of any song that has had a more world-changing, freedom-giving, life-transforming impact than the beautiful words that resonate from “Amazing Grace.” Let’s put it in its rightful place in history here on its 250th Anniversary year… and let’s break the record in one day: Sunday, November 12th, 2023.

Click here to see how!
Stay tuned as the details get constantly updated!
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