Songfacts®:

• This song features powerful imagery of the Centurion soldier's reaction to discovering that Jesus was the Son of God after He'd been crucified. "I often think about what it would've been like to experience that and to say 'Truly, you are the Son of God,'" Kari shared. "You realize you were part of His death, you were the one of the people who'd nailed Him to a cross. He must have felt so incredibly broken—to believe the lie and then experience the truth."
  
  "I really think that's like all of us," she added. "We've got to have the perspective that without the Lord's presence, we're all in darkness, and 'What Love Is This' is my love song to the Lord for His love song for my life."
• Kari wrote the song with:
  
  Lincoln Brewster, who is the senior worship pastor at Bayside Church in Granite Bay, California.
  
  Mia Fieldes, who is the writer of Christian worship songs like "Saviour King" and "Beautiful" and is known for her involvement as a musician with Hillsong Church in Sydney.