#3 Advent with John Gray, Senior Pastor of St. Paul’s Castle Hill in Sydney, Australia

Gafcon's Everyday Global Anglicans

St. Paul’s is the home of the music ministry of City Alight. City Alight is a music ministry in the church with the vision to write songs with biblically rich lyrics and simple melodies for the Christian church to sing. They write music so that average churches can play.
As Gafcon is focusing on the themes of Advent and Suffering Church at the time of this recording, we found that City Alight addressed Advent themes in their lyrics which would be heartening for the faithful around the world who might be experiencing times of despair during this most strange year of Covid and economic challenges. In this interview we will talk about the role he has as a Senior Pastor in helping the ministry of City Alight. We also talk about the rigorous songwriting process at City Alight, about suffering church Christians who are anonymously singing some of their songs, and about joy, true Christian joy as opposed to a joy held by happenstance or circumstances in life.