Lifehouse -- Everything

"Everything" is a song by the rock band Lifehouse. It is the last song on their debut album No Name Face, and was re-recorded as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of their 2010 album Smoke and Mirrors. Jason Wade grew up in a Christian family and wrote the song based on his faith.

The Lifehouse Skit
This song is very popular with Christian churches. Many churches have done skits using this song. The skit deals with their relationship with God and how they are searching for a way to fill the longing in their soul with something other than God, and this leads them to sin.

There is a female lead (or sometimes two leads: one male, one female) wearing a black (or red) shirt who starts out nurturing her relationship with God. God shows her all that he has created for her and how good it is for her. Their dancing together represents God leading her through the journey of her life and how beautiful it can be. As the song plays, she becomes distracted by lust, avarice, alcoholism, vanity, depression and despair into suicide (some versions change the order, or "combine" the sins, with the usual number being 5). Each temptation mirrors the relationship the female has with God, but is twisted in some way.

In the desperation of sin she comes to realize that only God can fill her and how much she needs God. It is once she realizes that she needs God and that she tries to get back to Him. In the end it is Jesus who steps in and takes on sin in the form of a cross to free her. The skit ends with the black/red shirt being torn off during her struggle to be reconciled with Jesus and reveals a white shirt underneath (or in some versions, Jesus gives her a white shirt).

Mission Baltimore Director Tim Houston wrote the "Everything Skit" and his team performed it at the 2006 Smoky Mountain Winterfest to a crowd of nearly 22,000 teens. Hopkinsville, Kentucky youth pastor, Jeremy Leek was touched. He purchased the DVD of that evening's service, returned to Kentucky, and taught it to his youth ministry drama team. Brian Robison, playing the role of Jesus, was asked by a friend to explain the drama. He posted the original performance from Winterfest on Youtube and Tangle, and now over 23 million have viewed the video.