Reviewed by John Daniels

When I first saw the "boiling frog" on the CD cover I wondered If Godfrey Birtill was, like me, a reader of Modern Railways. Whether or not that's the case, he certainly makes the point that as a nation we have been sitting back for too long letting "the world" take us over with its morals and values. That's the theme of this live worship album, recorded in February this year at the New Life Church in Lincoln (UK, as it says on the cover, not to be confused with Lincoln, Nebraska, presumably). The title track opener homes straight in on the theme and having established the problem so to speak, Godfrey then leads the audience on the path to recovery, from "Unbelief", to a request to "Purify My Imagination" and "Come O Spirit Of The Fear Of The Lord", through a sequence of praise until "flushing out" their sins, "You've Lived The Mercy" so that, as the line from that song says, "Now stand the responsibility." There are some good songs here, some of which could become worship classics ("God So Loved"), but as always with live worship albums I find it hard to get into the event, not having been there.

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