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On 17th May thousands of Christians immature and old took office in Global March For Jesus' Operation A to Z and prayer walked around their neighbourhoods. It was the latest in a long line of initiatives linked to U.k.'s praise and worship maestro GRAHAM KENDRICK. Ian Boughton met the worship.

Graham Kendrick

Your vision may not exist all it seems to be", says Graham Kendrick. By the fourth dimension 'God has knocked you about a bit', your musical direction might be completely unlike from what you lot expected... and that means your music may end up doing a very precise job that y'all didn't meet from the get-go.

"By the fourth dimension the Marches for Jesus had got up to 55,000 people, in the 2nd year, it was clear that the whole thing had begun to run away a chip, and now it'southward global... merely I however doubt if we'll get a millennium grant for ane!"

Graham Kendrick, looking weary after a day of meetings at Holy Trinity Brompton, sinks into a chair, yawns, and grins broadly at the idea of a devoted walker for Jesus being unwilling to make it across the room to the coffee jar.

The most successful contemporary hymn writer is surprisingly slight of stature, watchful simply amiable, logical in reasoning and ready to laugh fifty-fifty about himself... but at that place is a very clear sign of something stiff inside. You don't get vast numbers of the human race walking for Jesus without some kind of decision, and it'south clear that in any intellectual statement, this is a guy yous'd want on your side.

Later all, Jesus might have said in '90s language, disciples aren't wimps. So, what is the job to be done by a strong songwriting disciple in the '90s?

"I tin sum it up in a kind of mission argument - information technology's 'worship in every place, prayer for all people'. That, I believe, is God'southward intention for the world; I believe every Christian, worship leader or not, is caught upwardly in God'due south mega-purpose to fill the globe with worship.

"This actually resonates with me! And when it comes to walks, this means in shopping centres, in housing estates, in Istanbul... and locally."

It is the local walk that makes up the intriguing development of the March For Jesus initiative. Prayer walking is an intriguing concept. The general idea is that instead of moving blindly from 1 place to some other, you lot spend your walking looking at what the earth is actually doing around y'all. As you observe more closely, you see things, people and even areas to be prayed for, and pray for them as you lot walk.

The development in recent years has been to practice it in groups; some groups even devise route plans to cover entire towns with prayer over a given period.

Graham is co-author of a book on information technology, which mixes fascinating stories of prayer walking around the world with some neatly-phrased understanding for those who wonder if they tin practise it: 'while understanding that spiritual powers are real,' says the writer at one point, 'some readers may feel they accept plenty stress in the form of daily living, without picking street fights with demons...'!

Graham Kendrick laughs, and quite spontaneously glances seriously at his anxiety. "The whole thought of prayer walking sprang up aslope the better known March For Jesus concept, and started with that crazy idea of walking from John O'Groats to Land's End, and the next year doing west-to-east, to get the shape of the cross... and it really set a ball rolling."

Fine. Merely what does marching and prayer walking practise for a cause, autonomously from getting you a lot of healthy practise and a few blisters? And what'due south information technology got to practise with Christian songwriting? "What does information technology accomplish? For myself, having been involved in the new moving ridge of praise and worship in the '70s and '80s, it was an reply to a question that I had to ask myself: "fifty-fifty if nosotros were having a great fourth dimension in our churches, how was anything we were doing having any impact on the outside world? It was all confined within walls..." so we took the walls off the church building!"

The aforementioned as on his latest album title, 'No More Walls'? "Right, it'south the same walls, and we're nonetheless taking them off. Back then, the idea seemed crazy... I mean, there was no apparent demand for anyone to have this kind of thing on to the streets, merely information technology was a conviction I couldn't get away from.

"I felt constrained to create a framework of songs... a script, if y'all similar, for the streets. We did an instruction booklet on information technology and sold information technology for a pound - I was astonished by the have-upwardly, and of a sudden, it looked like people were actually going to practise it! I was actually worried - I idea people are really going to do this, and it's non tried. If you'll excuse the pun, the thought wasn't road tested at all. I was proverb with apparent conviction to churches, 'why don't you do this, it'll be nifty!', while not knowing whether the whole thing was going to fall apart; it was.... an interesting state of affairs!"

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