Keeping us Humble
There is no chance that our worship team will ever get the big head. If we have more than a few weeks of good, solid, strong music, we will invariable "go big" in a mistake. This week we had a guest missionary/evangelist speak and lots of visitors who had come to hear him. No pressure, lol.
1. Awesome in this Place
2. God is Great
3. Let the Praises Ring
4. Great in Power
I don't choose our Sunday setlists and here in the honesty of this blog I will say that I really didn't like this group of songs. The first and last need to be re-keyed. They are too high for me to even have a hope of singing them. I'm more than happy to take alto, but both of the other sopranos were no shows, so I was stuck. I've never really been too fond of God is Great. No matter what we do, we can't seem get it to be anything more than a big mush of sound. I think it might be the key. Some songs just work better in certain keys. Let the Praises Ring is one of my favorites, so I was glad to see it on the list.
Guess where we had our moment of humiliation? Yep, of course. Let the Praises Ring (well, I was personally humiliated in the first and last songs, but at least noone else was sharing that with me, lol). My son takes lead on this song and many others and usually does a fantastic job. He also plays acoustic. He completely spaced this morning and at one point skipped a chorus repeat and went back to the verse. So he's leading, the band all catch what he did and follow him, which is excellent. I'm so proud that they were able to do that. It's been something they've struggled with and it's cost us a lot of freedom in the past. So that's wonderful! BUT none of the other vocalists realized what was happening and so we all just kept on with the original arrangement. Rehearsal got started late that morning and we didn't have time to go over the sound very well. I couldn't really hear E OR any of the instruments, so we were pretty oblivious. When E realized what he did and saw that we weren't following, he went back to where we were. Ended up the band pretty much stopped and restarted to get back with the singers. Nightmare of embarrassment. We laughed about it later.
We just won't talk about when I almost dropped my microphone during the offering prayer. It was only a little deafening.
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6 comments:
Hey Chris,
Wow - I can just imagine that train wreck - thank God we can press through on those ... laugh at ourselves (like I had to do on my worship confessional) and trust in God's grace to still show up!
Do you have the ability to give feedback and input on the songs to your team leader? (I'm assuming you aren't the team leader, since you said you didn't pick the songs) ... key is critical! If you can't sing it, neither can the majority of the people in the congregation.
Thanks for being a part of "Sunday Setlists" on the blog!
haha! I'm not laughing at you but with you- i've had those days when you just want to slide off the stage and not be seen for a couple of weeks! The best thing to do is just laugh it off! God loves our worship even when we don't! I like the fact that you just came out and said- "I didn't like this group of songs". I've had those days!
:)
Definitely had days like that! I've been known to sit down with my husband & mumble something to the tune or "well, that sucked" and be shocked when others tell me they were able to enter into deeper levels of worship than they had in a long time.
God is strong in our weakness!
Wow.. that's a lot at once..It really is hard when so much happens in one service.. good thing God is willing to use us despite our messing up.. plus it reminds us how much we need him!!
Plus, It most likely was not nearly as bad as you think it was!!
Hope next week goes better for ya!")
I'm glad to hear you all could laugh about it after. It kind of made me smile a bit, only because your description of the morning was something I could really relate to as well :)
Thanks everyone. Thankfully things like that do not bother me now like they used to. In fact, the first time I screwed up big I was actually relieved. I had been so nervous about messing up that I was glad to have it over with!
After Sunday the music director and I made it a priority to arrange a time where we can meet and go over the songs that are too high for me. (I lead Wednesdays alone and am lead singer on Sundays) They were all originally keyed for a different lead. She is gone and while most of them still work in the original keys, some are just not even squeakable, lol. Great in Power in D is just too much for me. And I'm in awe of those who can sing it in that key!!!
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