One year later, it became number one on the UK CCLI chart. BBC Songs of Praise 2005 survey showed it to be the ninth best loved hymn of all time in the UK. After its 2001 release, it quickly grew in popularity and performance. It was their first work together, and it has become their most successful composition. They worked together for several weeks editing and perfecting the text and tune, and both share equal credit for the final version.

In 2001, Townend had already composed the tune that would eventually accompany 'In Christ Alone.' Kingsway put Getty and Townend in collaboration, and Getty brought the early version of his text. Getty and Townend had individually been involved with projects for Kingsway Music in England. He has been a successful song writer, arranger, worship leader, and publishing executive, as well as performer on piano, guitar, and banjo. He began writing songs and hymns at age twenty-two. He began piano study at age seven and studied literature at the University of Sussex. Stuart Townend was born in 1963, the youngest of four children of a Church of England vicar in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. After success in the commercial entertainment industry, Getty now concentrates his efforts on writing modern church music. He continued his study in conducting, arranging, and orchestrating and was helped greatly in his career by Irish flautist James Galway. His musical training began at age eleven on the guitar and flute, with later formal studies at Durham University and Tanglewood in Massachusetts. Julian Keith Getty was born December 16, 1974, in Lisburn, Northern Ireland. TOPIC: comfort, Holy Spirit/Comforter, conversion, transformation, Christ's Passion, resurrection, fears, foundation, guilt, shame, Hell, hope, atonement, cross, salvation, blood of Christ, incarnation, Second Coming, light, pardon, power, sin, strength, struggle, victory

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