It has the impeccable timing of jazz, the arrangement of a classic dance track, the depth of an orchestral symphony and the emotional charge of gospel.

He does not seem to have gone back to gospel illustrations until 1667, when he produced an admirable Nativity which is only surpassed in arrangement and colour by Rembrandt's Carpenter's Family at the Louvre, or by the Woodcutter and Children in the gallery of Cassel.

The song expresses a potent, pulsing rhythm reminiscent of a marching band, accompanied by baritone background vocal samples from the ARC Choir's arrangement of the traditional gospel song " Walk With Me, which emit a chant in cadence to the beat.

After West's brief opening dialog, a drumroll sounds and the song's titular hook ( an arrangement by Curtis Lundy of the traditional gospel song " Walk With Me ") is belted by the ARC ( Addicts Rehabilitation Center ) choir coupled with the chorus while its melody is laced with auto-tune-processed gospel wails.

" Kelefa Sanneh of The New York Times, who classified " Jesus Walks " as a gospel song, concurred with this sentiment, describing the song's choral arrangement as " clever ".

A poignant sense of nostalgia accompanied the recordings of several gospel and blues singers in the 1940s and 1950s who used the song to remember their grandparents, traditions, and family roots.

There is a service at the church, where a sermon is preached: afterwards a procession takes place, and the wells are visited in succession: the psalms for the day, the epistle and gospel are read, one at each well, and the whole concludes with a hymn which is sung by the church singers, and accompanied by a band of music.

Third wave charismatics stress that the preaching of the gospel, following the New Testament pattern, should be accompanied by " signs, wonders, and miracles ".

Nate's older son, Steve Saint, now works with the Waodani people and travels around the world, preaching the gospel, often accompanied by Mincaye, one of the Waorani who attacked the missionaries at Palm Beach.

The Davis Sisters also accompanied their singing with the rhythmic and sometimes spontaneous spirited choreography that other singers, such as Dorothy Love Coates and the Ward Singers later made famous ; the Davis Sisters were heavily influenced at this time by Gertrude Ward, the organizing spirit behind the Ward Singers and a guiding light for gospel music in America.

The Hammond B-3 organ was more in use in gospel venues and helped fill in the gaps, even when another talented pianist accompanied the group.

As during the usual live performances of the song, a gospel choir accompanied her.

Prayers were accompanied by musical instruments and gospel singing.

West provided a performance of " Jesus Walks " for the opening of the 2004 BET Awards, in which he stood behind a pulpit and was accompanied by a choir, drumline and gospel singer Yolanda Adams.

In the middle of the 2nd century, an edited version of the Gospel of Luke was the only gospel accepted by Marcion, a heretic who rejected Christianity's connection to Jewish scripture.

" Scholars have put forward several theories to explain Papias: perhaps Matthew wrote two gospels, one, now lost, in Hebrew, the other our Greek version ; or perhaps the logia was a collection of sayings rather than the gospel ; or by dialektōi Papias may have meant that Matthew wrote in the Jewish style rather than in the Hebrew language.

Thus Irenaeus provides the earliest witness to the assertion of the four canonical Gospels, possibly in reaction to Marcion's edited version of the Gospel of Luke, which Marcion asserted was the one and only true gospel.

By 1954, Brown had tried to get a deal with his gospel group, the Ever Ready Gospel Singers after recording a version of " His Eye Is on the Sparrow ", but returned to Toccoa when they failed to get a deal.

Irenaeus of Lyons wrote in the late 2nd century that since there are four quarters of the earth ... it is fitting that the church should have four pillars ... the four Gospels ( Against Heresies, 3. 11. 8 ), and then shortly thereafter made the first known quotation from a fourth gospel — the canonical version of the Gospel of John.

Their hit " Amen ," ( Top 10 ), an updated version of an old gospel tune, was included in the soundtrack of the 1963 MGM film Lilies of the Field, which starred Sidney Poitier.

The original quartet version of the brothers was inspired by their father O ' Kelly Isley, Sr., a singer in a local gospel group, who had envisioned his sons being " the next Mills Brothers " having his four eldest sons, Kelly, Rudy, Ronnie and Vernon, sing together in church at early ages.

Patrick and Sydnor emphasize the notion that gospel music is " sentimental ", quoting Sankey as saying, " Before I sing I must feel ", and they call attention to the comparison of the original version of Rowley ’ s " I Will Sing the Wondrous Story " with Sankey's version.

After his excommunication, he returned to Asia Minor where he continued to lead his many church congregations and teach the Christian gospel in its Marcionite or Pauline version.

An Old High German version of the gospel of Matthew dates to 748.

According to most ancient versions of the gospel of John ( and most modern translations ) Mary was Mary Magdalene, though the Codex Sinaiticus ' version only calls her Mary.

In the first four years of teaming with Dove Award-winning producer Michael Sykes, they made a full length gospel album ( From The Heart ), another Christmas album ( Inconvenient Christmas ), a patriotic album ( Colors ), a bluegrass album ( The Journey ), and recorded gospel songs to be added to a special edition version of From The Heart that was available only from Feed The Children.

He re-recorded it a few years later in a gospel version retitled ' What We Need ', with his six children providing backup harmony vocals.

In addition to this roster of popular recording artists and the gospel choir Sounds of Blackness, West End theatre stars Elaine Paige and Michael Ball and up-and-coming singer-actress Lottie Mayor, scheduled to play Swallow in the reworked West End version, appeared on the album.

Legendary gospel singer, pianist, and composer, Roberta Martin, also based in Chicago, composed another version of " I'll Overcome ", the last 12 bars of which are the same as the current version of ' We Shall Overcome.

'" Thus by the end of 1945 several versions of " I Will Overcome " were current as a gospel song, while on the South Carolina picket line, Lucille Simmons and other striking tobacco workers were singing a slow version of the song as, " We Will Overcome ".

To keep up their spirits during the cold, wet winter of 1945-46, one of the strikers, a woman named Lucille Simmons, led a slow " long meter style " version of the gospel hymn, " We'll Overcome " ( I'll Be All Right ") to end each day's picketing.

Cerinthus used a version of the gospel of Matthew as scripture.

Notable recordings include a dancehall-influenced version of the gospel classic " Oh, Happy Day " from the album A New Beginning.

Changing their name to The Valentinos, Cooke produced and arranged the group's first hit single, " Looking for a Love ", which was a pop version of a gospel song they had released titled " Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray ", written by Bobby.

The Gospel of the Hebrews (), commonly shortened from the Gospel according to the Hebrews or simply called the Hebrew Gospel, is a hypothesised lost gospel, or lost version of Matthew's gospel, preserved in seven or more fragments within the writings of the Church Fathers.

The Clovers, a vocal trio who sang a distinctive sounding combination of blues and gospel, had the # 5 hit of the year with " Don't You Know I Love You " on Atlantic Records.

The major hit on the album was " Somebody to Love ", a gospel-inspired song in which Mercury, May, and Taylor multi-tracked their voices to create a 100-voice gospel choir.

Their smash 1963 hit, "( Love Is Like a ) Heat Wave ", has been said to have been the first song to signify the Motown sound or " Sound of Young America " with its doo-wop call and response vocals, gospel backbeat and jazz overtones.

According an article in the Runway Network / RED " while Peacock has consistently pushed the boundaries of pop and gospel music by adding elements of alternative rock, dance music and jazz, he has never before delved into jazz as unabashedly and wholeheartedly as he does on Love Press Ex-Curio ".

Moody was asked by a local pastor what he felt was the primary contribution that a gospel singer and song leader such as Ira Sankey brought to his meetings he replied, " If we can only get people to have the words of the Love of God coming from their mouths it's well on its way to residing in their hearts.

Just after the turn of the century, the styles in gospel became more diverse, with various groups like First Love and Sauti adding to the urban sound created by Limit X.

In 1993, Gill released another solo project, Provocative, which included the songs " Quiet Time to Play ", " A Cute, Sweet, Love Addiction ", and the gospel song, " I Know Where I Stand ".

Levert recorded a string of albums throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, that contained the hit singles, " Thinkin ' About It " ( Pop # 12 ) which was releases September 1 1998, " Taking Everything " ( Pop # 11 ), " Funny ", " Mr. Too Damn Good to You ", " U Got That Love ", and a remake of R. Kelly's " I Believe I Can Fly ", along with gospel singer Yolanda Adams.

Between 1969 and 1970, Smith released two collaborative albums with American country artist Nat Stuckey called Young Love and Sunday Morning with Nat Stuckey and Connie Smith, the latter of which was a gospel album.

In August 2003, Smith released a collaborative gospel album with country artists Barbara Fairchild and Sharon White called Love Never Fails on Daywind Records.

In 1997 La Bouche recorded a cover version of the Elton John song " Candle in the Wind 1997 " also known as " Goodbye England's Rose " for their album " A Moment Of Love " in a gospel version featuring guest vocalists Chilli, Christin Sargent, Freda Goodlett, Rejime, The Jackson Singers, Joan Faulkner, Ma Belle & No Mercy.

In his earlier years, Aaron Hall once sang as part of Hezekiah Walker's Love Fellowship Choir gospel group.

He would return to lead The Original Drifters ' gospel song " True Love " in 1996 on the CD Peace in the Valley ( Malaco ).

After collaboration with Robert " Bumps " Blackwell, she recorded an album on the Decca label with an orchestra: " It Takes a Lot of Love "; she made " Portraits in Bronze " on Liberty ; and joined the lucrative night club circuit singing and recording gospel albums in night clubs in the 1960s.

The results were the albums, Givin ' It Back and Brother, Brother, Brother, both of which were notable for gospel and funk influenced interpretations of rock songs such as " Love the One You're With " and " It's Too Late ", which resulted in chart success.

This extended Paris ' soul and gospel influences to bring in hip-hop and house music and featured the track " If I Love U 2 Nite ", written especially for Paris by Prince and recorded at his Paisley Park studios.

With Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson writing and producing for her, and Paul Riser arranging, Ross recorded " Reach Out and Touch ", which carried a heavy gospel influence, and was one of the few songs the singer recorded to express her social conscience, previously experimented with Supremes singles such as " Love Child " and " I'm Livin ' in Shame.

* 1999: began their collaborative work with Art Greenhaw which resulted in a Grammy Award for the album We Called Him Mr. Gospel Music ( 2003 ) and six Grammy nominations for Best Album of the Year in a gospel category for other album titles including The Great Gospel Hit Parade ( 2001 ), God Is Love ( 2002 ), Always Hear The Harmony ( 2004 ), 20th Century Gospel ( 2005 ) and Southern Meets Soul ( 2006 )

“ Caravan of Love ” has also been used in the Dodge Caravan commercials, was recorded by Marvin Sapp on the WOW 2000 gospel album, and has become an anthem sung by numerous groups and individuals throughout the world who have made their unique version of the song available on YouTube.

Sony praised Williams ' " inimitable sopralto stylings " on " Purpose In Your Storm ", with its " whirlwind of percussive tools " and " jolting acoustics ", also noting the " aptly penned " " 15 Minutes ", the " gospel slow jam " " Love Thang ", the " stomping " " Movement " and " The Way of Love " as " other highlights " on the album.

She also performed vocals on several stunning ballads, notably " You ," and " We're Lovers After All ," and " I Can't Believe Someone Like You Could Really Love Me ," ( with a full gospel choir backing ), she also had another minor disco hit with "( Come and Take ) This Candy from Your Baby ".