More ways To Not Lead Worship Well

Another excellent way to help your church family NOT experience God during worship services is to choose music that is so complicated that nobody could ever hope to sing along with the band.  A great trick here is to make sure your worship musicians aren't getting bored playing the same ol chord progressions that the church family grew up with and mix it up with catchy "hip" syncopation that feels awkward to everyone in the room EXCEPT the cool cats playing the tune.  The object is to be "relevant", sound young and up to date anyway, right?  You can be sure that anyone brave enough to sing out in a worship setting like this will do so on the wrong beat and embarrass themselves into submitted silence - it's a sure winner!
Another winner in this category is to play songs with lots and lots of words at a tempo so fast that everyone has to just stop and stare at the words on the projector screen.  I mean, how else will they notice the oh so cool moving backgrounds you came up with running behind the text?  Right?  One other tip; if you're clever enough to do the song in a range that only the worship leader can sing, you can bet that more of your peeps will want a copy of the service CD so they can groove to it on the way home and feed you lots of compiments about how the band needs to be on iTunes ;)

Comments

[Mike]

So impressed that you have such excellent observations about how "not" to lead worship. . . since I have never experienced anything like that when you lead worship at CVC! :)

Time to let all of my friends in Worship Arts at CVC know how much you all mean to me again. . . have I told you all how much I appreciate how you lead us all into awesome times of worship every week (ok, I have told you LATELY??).

You all ROCK. Love you guys. Praying for the team that you will move through these next few weeks and sense His presence and His power in all you do!