New Wine Worship at SPH // Report

We had a great day at the start of February gathering over 350 worshippers and worship teams together at St Paul's Hammersmith for the first New Wine Worship Conference in London. There were so many highlights it's hard to pick out one or two. Perhaps what echoes on into my mind even today, were the following: Firstly, the hunger and openness of the worshippers who had come. People want more. More of God. More of His Spirit and the freedom that getting closer to Jesus brings. Secondly, the image of one particular worship team huddled together at the end of the day just to pray for each other and their church. The power of unity around vision, of agreeing around heart's orientation. Of being in it together, for a higher purpose. Prophetic words came too throughout the day. The main thrust seemed to be about the explosive power of  worship to affect every day real circumstance. It was awesome to then have Neil Bennetts from Trinity Cheltenham get up and speak on this in the final session: the impact of sung worship on the kingdom growing and advancing. Absolutely right.  Sing to bring change. Sing to resist. Sing to advance. Sing into being reality. It was so thrilling in the afternoon to see most of the seminars full up with people learning and growing together. Two unusual spaces also proved popular: an encounter room - open all day - where people could just come and enjoy God's presence, be still and hear from Him; and a 'talking heads' room - 4 x 5 minute video talks from local church worship leaders on key issues in developing the worship life of a church. Powerful worship, meaningful ministry times and God's encouraging YES over us. God Wants More Praise. Lift the Lid. Check out some of the photos here and catch up by downloading all the keynotes and seminars (available soon) direct from www.new-wine.org or www.sph.org