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Steven Furtick

Want to write a hit worship song? Invite a few friends to church.
Want to write a hit worship song? Invite a few friends to church.
Chris Brown, right, performs "Praise" with other musicians at Elevation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, in May 2023. (Video screen grab)
(RNS) — When the CCLI Top 100 chart first appeared in 1988, most of the songs had one writer. Today, the average hit worship song has at least two writers — who often have ties to the so-called Big Four megachurches that dominated modern worship songs.