About “You Alone Can Rescue”
Redman and Jonas Myrin set out to write a fresh salvation song, and deliberately built it around the word 'rescue' rather than more familiar church vocabulary like salvation or deliverance. The song carries a 2008 copyright and appeared on Redman's 2009 album We Shall Not Be Shaken, written in the wake of the 2008 Passion World Tour and amid the global financial crisis. Its central idea is that people cannot save themselves and that rescue belongs to God alone.
Written by Matt Redman and Jonas Myrin · Released 2009 on We Shall Not Be Shaken · CCLI #5376377
- A live version recorded at the Passion 2010 conference appears on the album Passion: Awakening (2010)
Churches that sing it
Real churches in our map with this in their worship playlist — 15 you can watch on YouTube.
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Frequently asked
Who wrote “You Alone Can Rescue”?
Matt Redman and Jonas Myrin. It was first released in 2009 on We Shall Not Be Shaken.
What is “You Alone Can Rescue” about?
Redman and Jonas Myrin set out to write a fresh salvation song, and deliberately built it around the word 'rescue' rather than more familiar church vocabulary like salvation or deliverance. The song carries a 2008 copyright and appeared on Redman's 2009 album We Shall Not Be Shaken, written in the wake of the 2008 Passion World Tour and amid the global financial crisis. Its central idea is that people cannot save themselves and that rescue belongs to God alone.
How many churches sing “You Alone Can Rescue”?
26 churches in the playlist.church map have it in their worship playlists, most often for Grace, Redemption, Salvation — one of the most-adopted worship songs today.