‘Week after week, we receive testimonies on social media from people encountering God through our music—many of whom had long searched for worship that resonated with their love for dance music,’ says Rave Jesus COO, Romilly Lynn.
I first met Topher (of Rave Jesus) in 2021 while attending ministry school in Redding, California. We bonded over a shared love for music and the desire to see God infiltrate mainstream music. I had worked in music marketing for a decade at Universal Music and then Amazon Music, and he was a globally recognised DJ with hundreds of millions of streams and a career that had taken him to stages worldwide.
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A year into our friendship, he shared a story that stuck with me—during the pandemic, he had hosted prayer calls specifically for music industry professionals who longed to see God move within the dance music scene. He called those gatherings Rave Jesus.
Topher felt a divine nudge to release dance music that carried the heartbeat of heaven
Fast forward a few years, and that seed of an idea had evolved. Topher felt a divine nudge to release dance music that carried the heartbeat of heaven—music that challenged the boundaries of worship as we knew it. At its core, Rave Jesus became an expression of his desire to see God’s presence permeate the music industry in an unexpected way.
After completing my third year of ministry school, I joined Topher to help grow Rave Jesus—not just as an artist project but as a label and a movement. Since then, we’ve become an imprint under Sony Music through the label True Royals, and Rave Jesus has announced a global tour for 2025.
Week after week, we receive testimonies on social media from people encountering God through our music
The impact has been beyond anything we could have imagined. Week after week, we receive testimonies on social media from people encountering God through our music—many of whom had long searched for worship that resonated with their love for dance music. Some are so thankful to be able to worship to music that they love and others are testifying that after hearing one of our songs, they were met by the love of God.
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The one that shocked us most was hearing that three EFF (Economic Freedom Fighters) members in South Africa gave their life to Jesus after walking in off the street to a church that was playing Rave Jesus, it’s amazing to hear how far and wide the music is reaching people.
For years, Christian music largely conformed to a singular sound, but Rave Jesus has shattered that mould, creating space for worship in a genre where it was rarely recognised and people such as Martin Smith have publicly stated that we must be open to hearing new sounds of worship in order to reach a new generation.
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What excites me most about the fact that Jesus can be worshipped at raves is the reclamation of a space that has long been associated with drugs, darkness, escapism, and the search for a fleeting high. Instead, we’re offering an alternative—a space where people can experience the same euphoric energy of a dancefloor, but with music that glorifies and honours God and where, ultimately, they can meet with their Father, the one who knows them, loves them and radically pursues them. Rave Jesus isn’t just a project; it’s a movement that’s redefining what it means to worship.
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