Thank you, Martin, and the team that put this together and honored me with the privilege of speaking to the most important people in the universe under God, I think, more important than angels, are the shepherds of God's

flock so to speak to you. And I know not all of you are pastors pastors but that's who I have mainly in mind.

So it's an awesome thing for me to address you.

Thank you Stuart. Good to follow you. Thank you, Stuart.

It's good to follow you around a little bit.

And I cannot overstate both in settings like this

and week by week in my local church the enormity of the importance of corporate worship for my soul. I think that when I lay my head down to die it will be true

still that the moments of my sweetest communion with God will have been standing with my people

in Psalm to the living God.

I am sanctified more in worship than any other time. I am brought low for my sin in corporate worship more than any other time.

I am given hope for my marriage and my children and my church when I'm feeling despondent in corporate worship more than any other time.

I don't know how it is with you, but the gift that God has given to the church in the last 30 years or so in a kind of awakening of corporate

God-centered worship in song that's very earnest, very joyful is a gift to me personally and so those whom he has raised up to lead local churches and then to sharing events like this are hugely important to me because God has ordained in my case anyway that those moments be sanctifying.

And I generally feel grieved about myself

because as I stand, sometimes with my hands lifted and

sometimes with my eyes closed,

articulating God's majesty in song,

I feel so foolish about the way I treat people 12 hours earlier. I just feel so foolish.

I feel why did that become such a big deal? Why did I get so angry? Why did I

get so discouraged over such a little thing? And my world comes into focus in worship and I just wish, pray for me

in this regard that I could just stay like that.

I think you, when you were introduced,

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