Lovin' it

My wife and I popped down to Gunwharf Quays on Saturday for the grand switching on of the Christmas lights. Well, it wasn't that grand and it wasn't that slick, but the lights did go on - and I suppose that is something. To be honest, that is not really why we went. A friend of mine who is the worship pastor at Family Church here in Portsmouth told me that their youth band was playing as part of the festivities and so we popped down to see what all the fuss was about.

Well, let's be honest - the youth band were definitely the best thing about the event - but that wasn't hard! The music they played was phat, busted style, Hillsongs worship music and was needed as it was absolutely freezing! The guys and girls who played made a good band - they worked well together, they knew their tunes and had a lot of confidence up there. The music wasn't all that slick - quite a few mistakes, but that actually didn't seem to matter.

The thing that I really took away from it was that everyone up there was having an absolutely brilliant time. They were passionate about what they were singing about and they were not afraid of showing the entire of Gunwharf Quays that they meant it. In a world where young people are often portrayed as being couch potatoes who don't really care about they world around them, these guys really broke the mould - in fact it the mould was in tatters on the floor by the end.

It reminded me of a blog post by a mate of mine on his site Three Days. He was trying to work out in his head why events like Soul Survivor was so popular with young people. His conclusion was passion - the people up front were passionate about Jesus and didn't mind anybody knowing it. And that is what these guys did. Certainly gave me as a worship leader something to think about...