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Worship Leader Passes Out While Literally Trying to Sing of His Love Forever

 

Matthew Wilson, Worship Pastor for First Hope Calvary Chapel, was rushed to the emergency room for exhaustion and dehydration after singing and playing guitar for 19 consecutive hours.

Witnesses say Wilson never stopped playing the popular praise song I Could Sing of Your Love Forever long after Sunday morning’s service was supposed to end.

“He just kept singing and playing the chorus,”  said keyboardist/violinist/vocalist Rachel Moore.  “Even after everyone left he was up there praising away.”

While songs typically go long due to Wilson encouraging the congregation to “sing so heaven can hear you,”  band members claim this is the first time anything like this has ever happened.

“I tracked with him as long as I could but my hands started to blister,”  said drummer Ben Thomas.  “I heard him change the words from ‘I could sing of your love forever’ to ‘I will sing of your love forever.’  I guess he was serious.”

“I’m proud to say I hung in there for about 52 choruses,”  said church member Bill Bradley.  “But my wife was giving me that look so I had to go.”

“I think at some point he got it in his mind he was going to spend the rest of his life on earth playing that song,”  said Sr. Pastor Darrin Tyrrell.  “I believe if his body hadn’t failed him he’d still be up there.  Sometimes our spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.”

Christian psychologist Dr. Fiona Nordlund BCC, MSW, PsyD claims that while this type of louange extrême or “extreme praise” heightens during the Easter season,  Wilson’s act was beyond the norm.

“It’s not uncommon to see marathon sign dance rehearsals,  decoration committees hanging flowers at odd hours, nationwide palm branch shortages.  People can really stress themselves out for the Prince of Peace, especially around Holy Week.”

A source close to WIlson’s family said he’s steadily recovering but not out of the woods. When asked how he was feeling Wilson said “like dancing….it’s foolishness I knoOoo,”  before falling unconscious once again.

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