HILLSONG WORSHIP’S
Brooke Ligertwood
by Doug Doppler
Hillsong Worship’s latest live recording There Is
makes her songs so special to so many.
More came out on Friday, April 6. We caught
word that’s so central to our own church this
year, I think will really frame that and have an
up with Brooke during rehearsals for their U.S. [WM] We love that when Hillsong tours, you enormous impact. The combination of worship
tour, which kicked off in early April. The Hillsong guys are really just “doing church”. We were and the word is a pretty lethal one, and we are
Worship team will be joined by Pastor Brian excited to see that Pastor Brian will be joining seriously expectant for what the Lord is going
Houston for all but three dates of this tour, as you on the upcoming U.S. tour. Can you share to do through these nights. It’s not often we
he shares the messages God has put on his your perspective on this? get to tour with our senior pastor, so we’re all
heart from his new book (which shares the excited that we are truly just taking a taste of
same There Is More title). [Brooke Ligertwood] Yes! Firstly - thanks home on the road.
for getting that we are a church, not a band!
For over a decade Brooke has been an Sometimes I wonder if people think that is a [WM] The video for “Who You Say I Am”
inspirational bringing line, when it is in fact the truest reality! We are already has over 6,000,000 views. Did you guys
us amazing songs like “None but Jesus”, a team from a local (and now global) church, place this as the first song on There Is More
“Hosanna”, “Lead Me to the Cross”, and more and everything that manifests itself in sound for musical reasons, a cue for churches to take
recently the Grammy-winning “What a Beautiful that you end up streaming or listening to has notice of a great “Sunday song”, a combination
Name” which has over 130,000,000 plays on its roots in everyday, local church. I think that of the two, or something completely different?
YouTube. Ligertwood has an uncanny ability has always been the strength of what we do
to shoulder the kind of anointing that seems to - that up close and personal, week-to-week, [Brooke] I’m sure we could get heavily
pull you into God’s presence. More than just a seeing the Gospel at work in people’s lives into the what’s and why’s of opening tracks,
singer, songwriter, and musician, Brooke truly thing. And obviously, Pastor Brian is our senior but in this particular instance, “Who You Say
is a worshipper. It is that heart for worship that pastor, so having him on the tour, speaking this I Am” is a song that has already made such
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