When it comes to appealing to the heart of America, it appears that singing a chart-topping Christian worship song is a sure-fire strategy to do it.

Eighteen-year-old Deanna Johnson performed "Oceans" in front of 'The Voice' judges on April 14^th at the recommendation of her coach, Maroon 5 lead singer Adam Levine. Deanna was also the last of the competitors on the live elimination episode that aired on Wednesday, April 15^th to be "saved by America" and eligible to continue to compete on the show. Although she was rated as one of the "bottom three" among the dozen contestants left, the viewing audience used Twitter to vote her into the last remaining spot of the final ten vocalists.

The fact that a pop megastar musician like Adam Levine is aware of the song "Oceans" may come as a surprise - but it shouldn't. The song's music video, which simply features the song's lyrics along with shots of waves hitting a shoreline and runs over eight minutes long, has more than 30 million YouTube hits to date. Included on Hillsong UNITED's 2013 album Zion, the song spent 47 weeks at number 1 on the Billboard Hot Christian songs chart, initially topping the chart toward the end of 2013 and staying there for almost the entirety of 2014.

With chart performance like that, "Oceans" was undoubtedly one of the biggest hits of 2014 among all songs Christian and otherwise. It's back at the top of the charts this week, most likely because of 'The Voice', after spending some time underneath Carrie Underwood's "Something in the Water." Another example of 'The Voice' effect: Deanna Johnson herself has a song on the Billboard Hot Christina songs list this week, with the recording of her singing the folk hymn, "Down to the River to Pray" charting at #5. It was the highest chart debut on that list this week.

When asked how it felt to have a Hillsong UNITED song featured on a platform such as 'The Voice', long time Hillsong Church member Celeste Jackson, of Brisbane, Australia, had this to say, "It made me feel proud. It was also amazing that a song written for believers to sing in church was being sung on an international TV show."

Mia Tortora, another Hillsong member and a keyboard player at Hillsong's downtown New York City and Montclair, New Jersey campuses, said that hearing about Deanna's performance "reminded me that God is doing something incredible in our nation right now. There are many great churches setting the grounds for a new culture for the world to see and be a part of." She continued, "In Ephesians 1:20, it says the Church is not peripheral to the world; the world is peripheral to the Church. Having 'Oceans' sung on national television is an outpour of God's grace and I am honored to be a part of a movement where all are welcome to come and make the name of Jesus famous."