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WHY DO WE WORSHIP… AGAIN?

Why We Worship Conferences were a core of the Vineyard experience in the earlydays of the Association of Vineyard Churches. There was something precious that happened in a small group over 30 years ago as well as at Canyon High School. Calvary Chapel was stirring, people were expressing their heartfelt emotion and feeling to GOD in ways never dreamed of and GOD was expressing HIS heart back.
Something must have struck a chord in the Holy Spirit in those days as people came from all around to encounter a GOD who was more than stained glass and pews. A GOD who was alive and could be experienced. A GOD who loved them, who would move through the room as they sang and wept. Who was drawing prodigal sons and daughters to come home.
“Come Holy Spirit” was more than a byline. It was an invitation. And HE did come! “Everyone Gets to Play” wasn’t the tagline for churches trying to get people to sign up for ministry roles, it meant something more. “Touching the Father’s Heart” was something more than a CD series. It was a lifestyle, a hunger, a response to One who had healed, freed, and embraced.
And there was something exciting about a group of people wholly devoted, totally united, tearing down dividing walls, desiring more than sermons and sacrament. The Justice, the Social change came from outflow of encounter instead of program or process.
This conference, “Why We Worship… Again,” is just the beginning of a conversation inviting us to draw back to the place where it all started as a movement. It’s a call to reinvestigate the phases of worship, the intimacy of worship, the heart of the worshiper, the desire of the worshiped and even the story of the catalytic moments that began this thing we know as the Vineyard.
And what better way to do that than to ask some of the original worshipers to tell their story, sharing their experiences and their insight, inviting us to worship again.
In a day when everyone does contemporary music and everyone has production and almost no church in America has a week pass without the lead of a guitar, let’s dial down, turn down the lights, turn off the perfection and return to the heart of worship. Come Worship Again… Anew…
Worship, the act of freely giving love to God, forms and informs every activity of the Christian’s life. -John Wimber
So, may we reintroduce a few people to you. These are some of the parents of Vineyard worship. They will be sharing their story with you. These precious pioneers were there in the very earliest days of the Vineyard. Here you will find the first worship leader at Carol and John’s small group, writers of some songs you know such as, “Holy & Anointed One,” “The Air I Breathe,” “Mighty Savior,” & “Father” and so much more.

Carl Tuttle
John Barnett
Marie Barnett
Danny Daniels
So, come out on June 8th all day from 10am to 8pm and hear the stories, receive healing and worship with us again!
Website | http://www.whyweworshipconference.com
Facebook | http://www.facebook.com/WhyWeWorshipAgain
Twitter | http://twitter.com/WorshipAgain

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