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Worship Leading Bloopers…

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I worship lead at minimum 2 times a week, although it seems lately I’ve been leading more like 3 or 4 times a week. When leading that many sets the odds of you falling on your face go way up. In that time of divinely leading the masses into anointed worship to Jesus there have been a quite a few times that I have made a huge mistake hoping that no one noticed. When those times come, it doesn’t help that the set I’m leading is being broadcasted to thousands of webcast viewers and tens of thousands on GodTV. But the Lord loves to teach humility I guess.

Here are some of the bloopers I’ve done while leading worship:

1. Singing the wrong words. This is my standard, my norm for goofing up. I very often sing wrong words, I’m working on this. I won’t point out anything specific b/c all you have to do is watch every other set I lead, I’m sure I’ll get a few words wrong.
2. Having the piano go completely silent on me while I’m singing. This definitely happened to me yesterday. I think I was singing “We Fall Down,” and while I was singing that, the dude next to me that was unplugging his stuff (accidentally) bumped my cord which made it come loose and silence. I kept singing, so it was just my voice there for what seemed like a minute, but was probably more like 5-10 seconds until I figured out a way to get sound back.
3. Giving Direction in the Talk Back – Yet it goes out into the people. We have a button we can step on (called a panic button) that when stepping on it, it allows us to talk to all of the band members (because we all have in-ear headphones). Worship Leaders often use this to give direction about what song to do next, when to change chords, etc. So a couple of weeks ago I was giving direction, and used it correctly, but then I went to say something else and I forgot to press the button and I gave the direction in a talking voice for all to hear in the crowd. It was funny and a little embarrassing. I’ve done that at least 2 or 3 times. Not fun at the time.
4. Starting a VERY LOUD Loop while the music is coming to an end. I’ve done this one or two times. It’ll be at a very somber moment in worship, where we are just worshipping God and its very peaceful, when “BANG”…. oops… that just ruined the moment. I did that the other day at the JPR (Justice Prayer Room) when I was leading for the Onething Internship and it was so abrupt that people started to laugh… then I started to laugh. I almost couldn’t keep it together, but I finally did.
5. Having a Chair Fall of the Stage and Make a Very Loud Noise. When I was singing with Luke Wood’s team 8 months to a year ago or so, I was scooting the stool over and behind me and unbeknown to me the legs were hanging off of the ledge. I then scooted back and BOOM, BANG, CRASH… It seemed to last forever and it was extremely loud. Many people laughed, as did I. That was not fun.

Tags: Worship