A group from church went to the ‘Big Church Night In’ on Wednesday in Bradford (arranged by the organisers of the ‘Big Church Day Out’, which this year will be on 24 & 25 May in Sussex) to sing along to Matt Redman and Christy Nockels. The meeting was held at the large Life Centre in Bradford and was attended by approximately 1200 people (based on Garry counting rows of chairs and estimating those standing, so this figure could well be wrong, though his estimates concerning numbers are far more likely to be reliable than mine!)
Matt Redman
Christy Nockels
Singing ‘Blessed Be Your Name’
For those who are interested, the set lists were:
- Our God
- Sing & Shout
- Here For You
- Holy Spirit (chorus added & merged with Here for You)
- Waiting Here For You
- Healing Is In Your Hands
- Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)
- Let it be Jesus (new song written by Matt Redman, click here to listen)
Beth Redman on video spoke about the work of the A21 campaign to abolish slavery in the 21st century and the second set list was:
- Blessed Be Your Name
- You Never Let Go
- Mercy
- Revelation Song
- One Thing Remains
- We are the Free
- Dancing Generation
- Benediction
- 10,000 Reasons
During the evening, Matt Redman spoke about magnifying God in worship. He said there are two kinds of magnification: that by microscope, whereby we take something really small and make it look bigger and that by telescope, whereby we seek to see something so vast and large that we cannot glimpse it on our own. So often, we take the microscope to our problems and blow them up out of all proportion. In worship, we need to magnify God, gazing at someone so glorious, so vast, so immense that we cannot possibly come to the end of His greatness.