“Our hope is that these words and their voices fill cars, homes, offices, hallways, hospital rooms, government buildings, prisons and anywhere else that this prayer needs to be heard and sung.” “It was incredible to finally record the voices of our church family singing this song over every person who is yet to hear this powerful confession,” Ware added. “We need a fresh Wind / The fragrance of Heaven / Pour Your Spirit out.” “So we the church / Who bear Your light / Lamp aflame / City bright / King and kingdom come / Is what we pray,” Hillsong Worship sings. The lyrics of the song are a cry for more of God’s presence in the world. A move of God that marks a whole generation of believers and welcomes a new generation of searching non-believers home - one so great that it is as unavoidable as the sound of an explosive gust of wind.” “I believe that there comes a time and place in every generation where there is a significantly great outpouring of the Holy Spirit. "'Fresh Wind' was born out of an urgency to see Christ’s Church rebuilt, restored and rescued,” Ware said in a statement to The Christian Post. The single has now amassed more than 8.2 million streams. Now, the faith-filled declaration is the highest audio streaming debut of any Hillsong song to date in the United States, with more than 942,000 street week streams.
The original studio recording of “Fresh Wind” was first released earlier this year. The new medley of “Fresh Wind” and “What A Beautiful Name” features Hillsong United’s Taya Gaukrodger and Hillsong Worship’s David Ware as co-leads on the single. Grammy Award-winning multi-platinum-selling group Hillsong Worship broke several records following the release of their single “Fresh Wind / What A Beautiful Name (Live).” "As people move, ideas move, practices move and religions change as well.Facebook Twitter Email Print Img No-img Menu Whatsapp Google Reddit Digg Stumbleupon Linkedin Comment 0 Shot from the official video of "Fresh Wind / What A Beautiful Name (Live)" recorded live with Taya Gaukrodger and David Ware at Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia, in May 2021. "This popular Catholicism is mixed with Indigenous religion, Shamanism, animism and African practices of veneration of ancestors, spirit incorporation, divination. "Catholicism in Brazil is divided, even today, between Roman Catholicism - the hierarchical Church - and popular Catholicism, with the cult of the saints, the myriad miracles, healings and pilgrimages," she says. Simultaneously, through the slave trade, religious practices from Africa also came to Brazil.Īccording to Professor Rocha, these religious traditions melded with the pre-existing spiritual practices of Indigenous Brazilians. When the Portuguese colonisers arrived in Brazil in 1500, they brought Catholicism. Professor Rocha acknowledges that while Brazil's religious demography has changed under the leadership of Bolsonaro, the transformation of faith is endemic to this country. "We have seen the more conservative Opus Dei Catholics with the very conservative Pentecostals, as much as we have seen progressive Pentecostals working together with progressive Catholics and Spiritists." "There has been a rift within all these major religions between the far-right conservative wings of these religions versus the progressives," she says. " usually judgmental: 'You can't do this, you can't wear these clothes, you can't listen to secular music,'" she says.įrom Catholicism and Evangelicalism to Spiritism, find out the myriad ways faith has shaped Brazil on RN's God Forbid.
These attitudes, Professor Rocha says, are at odds with traditional Pentecostal churches back in Brazil. They can drink in moderation." Australia's religious export
" can be who they are, they can have tattoos and piercings, they can dance and listen to secular music. Professor Rocha discovered that C3, Australia's second-largest Pentecostal church, has also amassed a large Brazilian cohort. "More and more international students coming from Brazil have said, 'I came here because of Hillsong,'" she says.īut Hillsong Church, which was established by husband and wife pastors Brian and Bobbie Houston in Sydney in 1983, isn't the only drawcard. Over the past two decades, Professor Rocha has been researching the intersections between migration and religion, exploring why so many Brazilians travel to Australia. Brazil is home to the world's largest Catholic population, but the rise of Pentecostalism is drawing young Brazilians away from traditional pews, and toward charismatic, "club-like" mega-churches.Īnd according to Cristina Rocha, a Brazilian-born cultural anthropologist at Western Sydney University, Australia plays an important role in this trend.
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