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HILLSONG + DELIRIOUS? UNIFIED PRAISE (DVD)
‘During Hillsong Conference [2003], Delirious? combined with Darlene Zschech and the Hillsong team to record this project. It was an incredible night, with over 20,000 worshippers packing the Sydney SuperDome, praising God with one voice.’
This DVD really does capture something of the scale and spectacle. But as the mass synchonised pogoing started, my first thought was: ‘I do hope the structural engineers anticipated this!’
Darlene Zschech will be known to some as the writer of ‘My Jesus My Saviour’ (number 319 in Praise!) and has been prominent in the leadership of the Hillsong Church, Sydney, for nearly two decades. Hillsong churches are often criticised for their prosperity emphasis, but apart from the scale of the event (and perhaps the shoulder pads) that side of things isn’t much in evidence in this Abbey Road production.
