"All of Creation" is a song by

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band MercyMe. The song, written by MercyMe,

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, and Dan Muckala, lyrically revolves around the themes of love, life, and belief, as well as the foundation of

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faith. The song was intended to refer to the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus in each verse and has been described as '

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'. Released to radio on January 29, 2010, as the lead single from MercyMe's 2010 album ''

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'', "All of Creation" attained considerable success on Christian radio. The single spent ten weeks atop ''

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'' magazine's Hot Christian Songs chart and eleven weeks atop the Christian AC Monitored chart, and peaked at No. 1 on the Soft AC/Inspo chart. The song also peaked inside the top ten on the Christian CHR chart, No. 2 on the

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chart, and at No. 14 on the

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chart. The song was ranked at the top spot on ''Billboard'' magazine's 2010 year-end Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts, as well as at No. 16 on the year-end Christian Digital Songs chart and No. 23 on the year-end Christian CHR chart. "All of Creation" was nominated for "

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" and "Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year" at the

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, and was nominated for "Christian Song of the Year" at the

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Background

In an interview with Kevin Davis of New Release Tuesday, lead singer Bart Millard said the idea behind the song was related to the theme of the album ''

''. Millard stated, "The entire album deals with three main aspects of love. The theme of the record is to 'love well' as Jesus commands us in the

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. There are songs about inward love such as in our song ' Beautiful.' There are songs based on 'we love because He first loved us,' which is the basis of this first single, 'All of Creation'." Millard also said, "I set out to write a song that was confessional and refers to the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus in each verse. It was my intent to mention every stage of Christ’s condescension and atoning sacrifice throughout the song."

Composition

"All of Creation" is a

song with a length of 3 minutes and 56 seconds. It is set in common time and the key of

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with a steady

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tempo of 104 beats per minute. The song has also been described as '

' and 'worship'. Lyrical themes in the song include love, life, and belief. Lead singer Bart Millard intended the song to refer to the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus in each verse. Guitarist Mike Scheuchzer said the song is "a picture of the change we want to see in our own lives. Without love like this, everything we do, everything we are, is in vain." Millard also noted, "Not a lot of songs mention the foundation of what we believe in. The whole idea that Christ was born of a virgin, he died on the cross, he rose again. Just the basic principles of Christianity". He also commented that "the song kind of takes us there, I say 'kind of' because the first line used to be talking about until a child was born, but it was instantly a Christmas song... but it does, the first verse goes through talking about how we were completely separated until the cross, basically." Regarding the chorus of the song, Millard said "the whole idea of the chorus and the sense that it brings in, with the tons of voices singing, is the fact that there's a day thats going to come when we are going to worship and be as one."

Release and promotion

"All of Creation" was officially released to radio on January 29, 2010, and as a digital single on March 2, 2010. The song also had a limited CD single release at select Walmart locations.

Reception

Critical response

Critical reception to "All of Creation" was mixed to positive. While Kevin Davis of Christianmusicreview called the song "(a) worship chorus written for the church in the style of 'You Reign' or ' God With Us'" and Kevin McNeese of New Release Tuesday called the song "amazing", Roger Gelwicks of Jesus Freak Hideout, while noting that "it's not a bad song by any means", stated that "(it) sounds precisely like the successful singles that have made MercyMe famous... there's nothing new that's offered that hasn't been heard before from the band".

Chart performance

"All of Creation" debuted at No. 31 for the chart week of February 13, 2010 on the ''

'' Hot Christian Songs chart. It advanced to No. 21 in its second chart week, and to No. 10 in its third week. The song advanced to No. 3 in its seventh chart week, and to No. 2 in its ninth chart week. In its tenth chart week, "All of Creation" advanced to No. 1, a position it held for ten consecutive weeks. The song dropped to No. 2 in its nineteenth chart week, and held that spot for an additional week before dropping to No. 3. "All of Creation" held the No. 3 spot for seven consecutive weeks before dropping to No. 6 and spent an additional ten weeks on the chart before dropping out. "All of Creation" spent a total of thirty-eight weeks on the Hot Christian Songs chart.Note: To obtain the sourced information, the user must enter the required data in the forms. On the

chart, "All of Creation" debuted at No. 16 for the chart week of March 20, 2010. The song dropped to No. 22 the following week but advanced to No. 15 in its fourth chart week. It reached its peak of No. 14 for the chart week of April 24, 2010, and spent another nine weeks on the chart before dropping out. In all, the song spent fifteen weeks on the Heatseekers Songs chart. "All of Creation" spent eleven weeks atop the ''Billboard'' Christian AC Monitored chart, the longest run MercyMe has spent at No. 1 in their career. The song also topped the Hot Christian AC and Soft AC/Inspo charts and peaked inside the top 10 on the Christian CHR chart, as well as at No. 11 on the

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. 20 March 2010 "All of Creation" was listed on several year-end charts in 2010. It ranked at No. 1 on the Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts, No. 16 on the Christian Digital Songs chart, and No. 23 on the Christian CHR chart.

Awards and accolades

"All of Creation" was nominated for two awards at the

: "

" and "Pop/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year". It was also nominated for "Christian Song of the Year" at the

Track listing

Digital download #"All of Creation" – 3:56

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Decade-end charts

References

;Notes ;Footnotes {{authority control MercyMe songs 2010 singles Songs written by Dan Muckala 2010 songs Songs written by Bart Millard Songs written by Brown Bannister Song recordings produced by Brown Bannister pt:All of Creation