# Darlene Zschech **Summary.** Australian worship leader and songwriter. Hillsong's worship pastor from 1996 to 2007. Author of *Extravagant Worship* (2002), one of the standard codifications of Hillsong's praise-and-worship theology. Writer of "Shout to the Lord" (1993), the song that effectively put Hillsong on the global worship map. ## Facts - **Role.** Hillsong worship pastor, 1996–2007. - **Signature song.** "Shout to the Lord" (1993). - **Book.** *Extravagant Worship*. Bethany House, 2002. - **Post-Hillsong.** Hope Unlimited Church, NSW (with husband Mark Zschech). ## Tradition Pentecostal, charismatic, praise-and-worship. ## Theological Positioning Zschech's *Extravagant Worship* is a primary source for the Praise and Worship theological framework Scott Aniol critiques in the 2022 G3 article. The book treats worship as presence-generating practice, not only as response. See [[Praise and Worship Theology]]. ## Open Threads - A primary-source read of *Extravagant Worship*. - Coverage of Zschech's cancer diagnosis and the worship-theology-of-suffering that emerged in her later work. ## Related - [[Hillsong]] - [[Praise and Worship Theology]]