continuous worship: day 1…intro

September 17, 2007

Today marks Day 1 of the Continuous Worship conference at Mars Hill Church in Seattle, WA.

You may have heard of a guy named Mark Driscoll. Driscoll is the lead pastor here and Tim Smith, Mars Hill worship pastor, is the architect behind the worship conference. Harold Best, author of Unceasing Worship, is the keynote speaker.

Also speaking will Gerry Breshears, professor of theology at Western Seminary, Smith, Driscoll, as well as Mars Hill band leaders who are doing breakouts like Joe Day - The Northern Conspiracy, Joel Brown - Red Letter, and Brian Eckelberg - E-Pop.

I will be posting periodically to let you in on the particulars here.

My first post today is actually about yesterday. We had the privilege to spend the morning with Tim Smith, through my good friend, Joel Lindsey, worship pastor of The Journey. Tim gave us a ‘behind-the-scenes’ look at Mars Hill at their Ballard and Shoreline campuses. We got to meet alot of the band leaders, production folks, etc. It was truly an honor…

Tim is a class act. What you see is what you get. And Tim shared something with us that I believe is going to foster in a new epoch of church worship music beyond the Integrity/Passion eras. I’ll have to hold off telling you until it is official but it is going to be rad…

I am so grateful for Tim and Joel for their graciousness and hospitality. I don’t take for granted the amazing opportunity we had to see ‘behind the curtain.’

I’ll check in with you later. I’m sitting in the songwriting Session with Joel Brown, other wise known as the “Sweet Songwriting Seshy-Sesh.”

Peace and chicken grease…

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