Luke Munns: Thanks so much for your kind words! So happy you enjoyed it. I was leading worship with one of our worship leaders, Sarah Potts, at church and the whole thing came together from start to finish in my mind.

I've worked at The Grove Studios on many other artists' music for the last 10 years as a producer and it's always been a dream to record our own music there. What started as an idea and then a conversation grew in to a team of over 50 creatives from over 12 churches, gathering together for a night of creative expression and worship to God. It definitely exceeded my expectations, and the response from people has been very humbling.

At the heart of the project, we just wanted people to connect with God in a fresh way through using the creativity God has given us.

Luke: I grew up at Hillsong church and was a key drummer/player in the starting of Hillsong UNITED. After helping to build it for 8 years I felt called by God to leave UNITED and start a band. LUKAS started as nickname that I was given by Joel Houston who I grew up with, but became the working title of some demos that I made and put on the Internet back in 2004. "The Demo EP" (as it's called) had over 400,000 downloads, and launched as a mainstream band, that that toured across Australia & New Zealand.

I remember a moment when we played live on MTV where I felt like we weren't having the impact for Christ that I was anticipating. Nothing around us was changing. The world was setting the atmosphere.

On one hand, LUKAS would get up and sing about life & subtle lines mixed in about our faith, and then the next band would get up half drunk and sing about sex, drugs and rock and roll - undoing the positive influence that we'd sacrifice so hard to bring.

It was at that point that I returned to my worship roots, and started working on an innovative sound of worship that I hoped and believed would reach and connect people with God. I knew that we needed to be hot or cold, and that a mixture wasn't going to cut it. I knew that in order to allow God to change people the word of God needed to be spoken over people.

The origin of the name LUKAS is Greek for "bringer of light", which was actually the original role of Lucifer in heaven, before he was filled with pride and jealousy, and fell from Heaven. God's original plan is to worship Him in Spirit and in Truth, without ever letting the focus come away from God and onto ourselves.

Our prayer is to be used by God to bring His light and love to the world.

Luke: Yes! We are all committed and serving in our local churches, as we believe that the heart behind what we do in LUKAS is to serve and build our locals churches, and from that home base help other churches around the world by serving and sharing what we have at home.

We are currently based at two churches, HopeUC (Ps Mark & Darlene Zschech an hour north of Sydney, and Hillsong Church, Sydney. We all serve in various capacities as worship leaders and musicians, as well as training up and mentoring up-and-comers in the team. By honoring the local church first, we go out with the blessing of our pastors - which is a vital key.

The band has formed out of relationships formed through the shared vision of wanting to experiment and create fresh innovative sounds in worship music.

On a side note, our bass player and music director Ben has his own coffee roastery and owns three café's on the east coast of Australia, which makes him a VIP for our high quality and quantity caffeine requirements.

Luke: I think my favorite song on the EP would have to be "Heaven On The Earth."

In the midst of my daughter Olivia fighting a health battle, and our much loved senior pastor Darlene Zschech fighting for her own life with cancer, I had to get back to foundations and discover for myself where I stood in my faith, and what I believed in the midst of heavy trials.

At the beginning of last year, I felt like God gave me the theme for my year 'Heaven on Earth'. Jesus taught us to pray:

"Your Kingdom Come, Your will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven" (Matt 6:10)

Why would He teach us to pray like this if God's will was automatically going to happen? The truth is, it's not. We're stuck in the middle of a battle. We have an enemy whose plan is to steal from us, and to kill and destroy our lives… But Jesus came to give us life and life abundantly. So how do we tap into this healing and life that we so desperately find ourselves needing in this world? By choosing life and choosing to press into, partner with, follow and trust our loving Heavenly Father.

That's what the song 'Heaven On The Earth' is about - it's a deeply personal song to me, the lyrics are deeply heartfelt and I have found hope in them over the past months leading me to write and record this new song with the LUKAS team.

Luke: I believe that God deserves the absolute best. The Grove is one of the most prestigious recording studios in Australia, utilizing the highest quality analogue recording gear and microphones available.

We also recruited one of my good friends Paul Moss as director who is director of photography for reality television shows such as Masterchef, Biggest Loser, Survivor, Shark Tank etc. We filmed it on 4K on Red cinema quality cameras.

The reason we chose this direction was to give God the highest praise through use of the highest quality capturing technology.

God doesn't deserve our second best, second rate, last fruits. That's why we stretch, sacrifice, step out of our comfort zones to roll out the red carpet for Jesus.

Luke: Fundamentally, I'm a music producer, so I'm always looking for new fresh sounds and inspiration from indie and mainstream pop sources. We study everything and any new music we can find looking for something that might spark a new idea, create new vibes and help us step out of the current boundaries and comfort zone of what we know worship to be around the world - to ultimately reach more people.

My playlist would include worship artists such as Bethel Music & Hillsong Young & Free, as well as mainstream artists such as Coldplay, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift, Sia, Ed Sheeran & more. We like to take inspiration from the world's best artists and use it to build the kingdom of God. Although we might not agree with someone's life choices, we value their knowledge and experience just as a carpenter goes to trade school to learn the necessary skills, or a pilot learns to fly a plane at flight school. That said, I'm super selective about songs I listen to make sure they are clean, specifically avoiding any lyrics that are degrading of women, or include foul language, etc. I stick to listening to positive, uplifting songs about life and love.

Luke: I'd have to be either Dora The Explorer or "some kind of duck toy" so that my two-year-old daughter would think I'm the absolute best thing around.

Luke: Thank you so much Ryan! That's means so much to us, and we are so honored to be part of this amazing website. Good times ahead!