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Tonight's service starts at 7.30 in Nexus and features a saggy old cloth cat. Come along and find out what the heck I'm talking about...!

(photo from last year's Sanctus1 main stage communion)

Then over the weekend, lots of the community are going to Greenbelt. Sanctus1 (Sun 10pm) and Sanctus2nds (Sat 10am) are both doing services in New Forms. It'd be good to see you there.

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The Greenbelt festival has relaunched it's website, so I took a few moments this lunchtime to see which bands would be playing at Christendom's most cutting edge event.

Okay, nothing about music on the front page. 'Shop and talks', 'resources' and the like. Ah, what about the coloured buttons at the top, above the cosy picture of families enjoying the sun on the edge of a seminar tent? Nothing there: I'll just click 'line-up'.

I seem to have landed on the Soul Survivor website by mistake. Are those people worshipping or clapping a band? The main links say 'youth', 'children's festival', 'all-age', 'talks', 'visual arts'...

...ah, hold on, it finally mentions music!

"And remember, Greenbelt is much more than a music festival." At the bottom right corner of the page. Under the link to previous years' events.

Oh.

Greenbelt continues to be my 'spiritual home' in many ways, and I understand most bands haven't been confirmed yet. But if the website's focus is representative of how the festival wants to be seen, I can't help thinking it's become anything but a music festival - with a smattering of good bands if us punters are lucky.

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The nature of truth/ Truth and meaning/ Meaning have been playing on my mind for various reasons, both during and after Greenbelt (“Wow, deep stuff!” I hear you breathe…).

As ever, when there’s something on my mind, I see markers of it everywhere. Today, within a few hundred metres of each other, I walked past my favourite piece of Mcr graffiti – a tag that reads “? This is the age of broken images”...



and, a new flyposter that’s appeared in the last 24 hours...



Today, both seemed to be divine interventions (“what can it mean? what does it mean?”) in a way that I think might make Pete Rollins and the Ikon crew nod sagely…

(BTW, I still don't know what Pete said in his GB session, I just know it was really, really good.)


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Well we did it! Sanctus1 led the main communion service at GB this year, it's probably the only time in my life where i'll lead worship for 15,000 people and it was a fantastic experience. All seemed to go to plan and the service ran smoothly. Love and Joy Gospel choir were stunning and gave the service a real sense of energy, Fuse Factory on the arena stage gave the arena an ambient feel. People from Sanctus led the service well and the whole service felt coherent and lasted 70 minutes.

Thanks to all involved, esp. those who stuffed the 1,000 worship bags - without you it wouldn't have happened!

My highlight was the final song, How Great Thou Art, I felt quite tearful - this huge event that i have been working on for six months or so had come to an end, and it had worked. The crowd seemed to be loving it and i had a real sense of God during the event.

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Not long now...!

You can meet up and worship with us twice on the weekend - on Sunday morning at 10.30 (yep, we're doing the festival communion - gulp!), and also for a Sanctus2nds service. Be great to see you at both/ either.

And with my weather obsession (Ben says I need help!!), I'd also point to the excellent metcheck for updates...




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