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• Southern Baptist churchgoer Brad Paisley penned this gospel song with Kelley Lovelace. The singer told Parade Magazine that he considers it "the most important" religious tune he's ever recorded. "I wrote it shortly after my cousin-in-law passed away in 2011," Paisley continued. "He was young, and he fought against a debilitating disease. There weren't five minutes of intensive care that there weren't at least two church members at the hospital, and I remember thinking, what makes people take shifts for somebody they haven't known very long? Well, it's belief.
  
  "To play the part of the skeptic is a much more powerful argument to me," Paisley added, "in favor of [belief] as well as looking at things that are baffling. My most devout friends love it and so do my agnostic ones, but for very different reasons."