The new installation, known as “All Creation Sings” is inspired by Psalm 148. The passage states “Let them praise the name of the Lord!” The 45-minute experience is designed to answer the question: What is worship? Chief Revenue Officer at the Museum of the Bible, Garrett Hinton, explained why this exhibit is important to the modern church.
“When somebody says worship to me, my mind immediately goes to the thing that we do at church on Sundays before the pastor gets up and gives the sermon. That’s worship and indeed, that is worship. But as the Bible talks about worship, it’s so much more than that. So the story is the story of the Bible, and it’s taking you from Creation or Genesis all the way to Revelation,” he said.
The experience uses cutting-edge light detection and 3D laser technology. Hinton remarked, “Suddenly I’m a little kid again and I could go and create and paint on the walls at the beginning and at the end of this story.” The museum partnered with a group called CREATR and features work from some of Christian music’s biggest names for this project.
“So you think of people like Jackie Hill Perry, Tasha Cobbs, Brandon Lake, Kari Job, Cody Carnes, Phil Wickham, Brooke Ligertwood, Chris Tomlin. It is the who’s who that have come together to create this organization called CREATR, lending their voices to this before you go into the experience, really setting up the experience so that your heart and your mind are prepared to talk about worship and what it is and who deems it worthy,” Hinton explained.
“All Creation Sings” takes guests on a trip through four acts. Laura and Madison DeMichael, a mother and daughter pair from Ohio, described the wonder they felt: “To see the Word of God come alive in front of me and just to be a part of that cacophony of praise, like they said in the beginning, it is a continual praise that is echoing to our Lord and our Savior, beyond a shadow of a doubt, it was an experience by far.”
The added, “It was incredible, I’ve never seen anything like it, all the colors, all the sounds.” Laura felt as if it was a foretaste of heaven, “To just be a part of it and have it surrounding you. It makes me excited to see what heaven will be like, but not yet!” Another attendee, Twelve-year-old Eleanor Rooney, enjoyed the interactive part of the exhibit.
“I’ve been to an interactive thing like that before, but not all around, and with the screens and the projectors and everything, it was amazing,” she explained. One of her classmates, Alex Vassallo reported that I think it was amazing and it was kind of out of this world. My favorite part was probably the running around and touching the walls.”
Chief Marketing Officer at the Museum of the Bible, Matthias Walther told reporters that Worship is our purpose. That’s what we’re created for. So, God created us, and he created our universe. That’s where it all starts. And I think to discover this, to see the greatness of our Creation, the greatness of God’s design in our existence, it takes you to a humble, really reflective place. ”
He added that I think that’s always a good starting point to kind of find your space in the context of our existence of this world. And I think that’s specifically attractive for people who don’t have a faith background because it gives them a new North Star to understand, ‘So, what on earth am I here for?'” The feedback on the new exhibit was universally positive.