This Is What We Believe

This Is What We Believe is the fourth studio album from Christian musician Aaron Shust. It was released on August 23, 2011 by Centricity Music label.

This Is What We Believe
Studio album by Aaron Shust
Released	August 23, 2011
Genre	Contemporary Christian music[1]
Length	41:25[2]
Label	Centricity Music
Producer	Ed Cash
Aaron Shust chronology
Christmas EP (2009) This Is What We Believe (2011) Morning Rises (2013)
Singles from This Is What We Believe
"My Hope Is in You" Released: August 2, 2011 "We Are Free" Released: 2011

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Louder Than The Music	[3]
Christian Music Zine	[4]
Christianity Today	[5]
Jesus Freak Hideout	[6]
Christian Music Review	(9.3/10)[7]
New Release Today	[8]

Track listing

This Is What We Believe^[9]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"This Is What We Believe"	Aaron Shust, Jonathan Lee	4:45
2.	"My Hope Is in You"	April Geesbreght, Ed Cash	4:14
3.	"Your Majesty"	Shust, Cash	4:48
4.	"Risen Today"	Shust, Charles Wesley	4:02
5.	"Sing of My Redeemer"	Shust, Cash, Philip P. Bliss, Margaret J. Harris	4:16
6.	"Never Been a Greater Love"	Shust, Stuart Garrard	4:46
7.	"Greater Is He"	Shust, Carl Cartee	3:28
8.	"Wondrous Love" (featuring Kari Jobe)	Shust, Ryan Van Kirk	4:01
9.	"We Are Free"	Shust, Juan Otero-Cordero, Seth Mosley	3:55
10.	"God So Loved the World"	Shust	3:10
Total length:			41:25

Videos

Shust released a video of the single "My Hope Is in You".^[10]

Personnel

• Aaron Shust – vocals, backing vocals, acoustic piano, programming, acoustic guitar, mandolin
• Mike Alvarado – acoustic piano
• Adrian Disch – acoustic piano, keyboards, synthesizers, programming
• Seth Mosley – programming
• Ed Cash – programming, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin, bass, strings, string arrangements, backing vocals
• Scott Cash – acoustic guitar, backing vocals
• Ethan Kaufmann – electric guitar
• Chris Lacorte – electric guitar
• Tony Lucido – bass
• Tim Jones – drums
• Dan Needham – drums
• Jacob Schrodt – drums
• David Davidson – strings, string arrangements
• Dayton Cole – backing vocals
• Daniel Fernandez – backing vocals
• Cody Norris – backing vocals
• Kari Jobe – vocals (8)

Production

• John Mays – executive producer
• Ed Cash – producer, engineer
• Scott Cash – assistant engineer
• Dayton Cole – assistant engineer
• Cody Norris – assistant engineer
• Ainslie Grosser – mixing
• Bob Boyd – mastering at Ambient Digital (Houston, Texas)
• Joanna Dee – design, layout
• Laura Dart – photography
• Kriste Pate – hair stylist, make-up
• Anna Redman – stylist

Charts

The album never charted on any Billboard charts. The only song to chart was "My Hope Is in You", which peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Christian Songs chart, and it stayed on that chart for 52 weeks.^[11]