Love Has Come
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"Love Has Come" is singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 Mark Schultz's third single for his fifth studio album Come Alive
Come Alive
Come Alive is an album by Contemporary Christian music singer/songwriter Mark Schultz, released on August 25, 2009.- Background :Schultz got the idea for the album's second single, "He Is," from his wife...

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Background

Mark says he used Bible passages to write the song. One passage in particular was Philippians 2:5-11. He also used Isaiah 45:22-24.

Production

Mark said that he wrote two bridges with no verses:

Every knee shall bow, Every tongue confess, That God is love, And love has come for us all.

Glory, glory, hallelujah, Thank You for the cross, Singing glory, glory, hallelujah, Christ has paid the cost.

Producer Brown Bannister
Brown Bannister
Brown Bannister is a CCM producer and songwriter. Bannister released one album of his own, Talk to One Another, in 1981 on NewPax Records. It was reissued on the Reunion Records Label five years later, featuring a newer recording of the album's final cut, "Create In Me A Clean Heart"...

 helped write the verses and an extra bridge:

Oh, and on that day, We will stand amazed, At our Savior, God and King, Just to see the face, Of amazing grace, As our hearts rise up and sing.

Music video

The music video features Mark singing with a gospel choir. The video was released on March 22.

Critical reception

NRT Contributor Kevin Davis called the single "a great song to sing and praise to."

The music video was recently voted #4 of 10 during the 4th Annual GMC
Gospel Music Channel
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 Music Video Awards.

Chart performance

The song debuted at #13 on the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
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Hot Christian Songs
Hot Christian Songs
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 chart in its first week of release, and has since peaked at #11. The song also peaked at #11 on Amazon
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Top Christian Contemporary Music charts.

Charts

Peak
position
Chart
U.S. Billboard Hot Christian Songs
Hot Christian Songs
Christian Songs is a Billboard chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States....

11
U.S. Billboard Hot Gospel Tracks
Gospel music
Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....

20
Canada Christian and Gospel Songs 8

Personnel

  • Songwriting - Brown Bannister
    Brown Bannister
    Brown Bannister is a CCM producer and songwriter. Bannister released one album of his own, Talk to One Another, in 1981 on NewPax Records. It was reissued on the Reunion Records Label five years later, featuring a newer recording of the album's final cut, "Create In Me A Clean Heart"...

    , Matthew West
    Matthew West
    On July 26, 2002, only a week or two before signing a record contract with Universal South Records, West had an injury to his left arm which threatened his musical career and guitar playing. He says, "I locked myself out of my house. But I'd done that before, and I had a way of breaking in through...

    , Mark Schultz
  • Production
    Record producer
    A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

     - Brown Bannister
  • Vocals - Mark Schultz

Release history

Region Date Format
United States August 25, 2009 Album release
May 1, 2010 Digital download
Music download
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