That day i talked with a friend, and we get something like this:
Worship leader's job is to get the congregations to be attentive towards God, and ultimately to bring them into a worship. Church worship session have songs with a similar theme, and that should be what the worship leader trying to get the congregation to think about. Hence, preferably, the worship tunes should be synchronized with what the pastor wanted to preach.
Also, worship leader shall have the anointing to affect the congregations, spiritually (holy spirit and stuff like that). But, i was thinking, should worship be done together just like in group prayer (same thought, same spirit and everybody says "amen"!) or just different people different touch/thoughts?
Personally, i think that if it's not done in "togetherness", it'll be messy. Everyone will be having their own stuff and there is no unity. Even in the normal "world" bands, they play with same philosophy (you can see how badly a man can be changed once he's affected by the culture of the band he joined). Similarly, in church worship team, we all play different instruments, but our spirit should be aligned. The team have to follow what the worship LEADER leads, and not to lead individually.
But, how a pianist worship with a piano? Perhaps you can imagine the piano as a voice, just another kind of voice. Take 5 people sing together in harmonics, and we change all the 4 voices to string, left one human voice. It's the same isn't it? And you can also notice how a person usually free-worship in spirit- don't know what is he singing at all, only God knows via spirit... Haha, but for pianist, can't just free flow, only if you have the skill or talent. Else, tough.. very tough..
Now, i have another problem: if we just follow what the worship leader wants, and play it very harmonically, is it enough? This may be true for a thought: "good worship does not occurred naturally, but we have to "do" it out. This is very true.
Still, i do think that there is an element missing.
Perhaps this is not too important as christian shouldn't worship only at church, but it's an everyday "thingy"!
Worship leader's job is to get the congregations to be attentive towards God, and ultimately to bring them into a worship. Church worship session have songs with a similar theme, and that should be what the worship leader trying to get the congregation to think about. Hence, preferably, the worship tunes should be synchronized with what the pastor wanted to preach.
Also, worship leader shall have the anointing to affect the congregations, spiritually (holy spirit and stuff like that). But, i was thinking, should worship be done together just like in group prayer (same thought, same spirit and everybody says "amen"!) or just different people different touch/thoughts?
Personally, i think that if it's not done in "togetherness", it'll be messy. Everyone will be having their own stuff and there is no unity. Even in the normal "world" bands, they play with same philosophy (you can see how badly a man can be changed once he's affected by the culture of the band he joined). Similarly, in church worship team, we all play different instruments, but our spirit should be aligned. The team have to follow what the worship LEADER leads, and not to lead individually.
But, how a pianist worship with a piano? Perhaps you can imagine the piano as a voice, just another kind of voice. Take 5 people sing together in harmonics, and we change all the 4 voices to string, left one human voice. It's the same isn't it? And you can also notice how a person usually free-worship in spirit- don't know what is he singing at all, only God knows via spirit... Haha, but for pianist, can't just free flow, only if you have the skill or talent. Else, tough.. very tough..
Now, i have another problem: if we just follow what the worship leader wants, and play it very harmonically, is it enough? This may be true for a thought: "good worship does not occurred naturally, but we have to "do" it out. This is very true.
Still, i do think that there is an element missing.
Perhaps this is not too important as christian shouldn't worship only at church, but it's an everyday "thingy"!
5 comments:
worship, including singing, music, and...
praying, reading bible, listen to sermon.
but now people when talk about worship, just focus at music and singing.
so young ppl got misled, and have no ground in the preaching and teaching of bible,,
but fantastic in singing, music and dancing,,,
but if we talk only about the music element? Let's separate it out for easier analyse. So, now if i'm talking only about music, not including bible reading, prayer and sermon, what kind of quality shound it be?
quality is simple:
able to lead worshippers in praising, with emotionally, mentally involved; so engaging that ppl touched by God, receive message and commfort from God,
and too, ppl could express their love, true feeling towards God.
In short: spontaneous, engaging ,expressive,,,
How to achieve that?
basically through worship leader skill, music skill, and congregation singing culture.
let say, if your congregation comprises: ah seng, ah beng, less educated, chinese educated, old aged..
then sorry to say, these kind people hard to flow in worship music and mode.
you can see that, churches good in worship, like hillsong, Pastor Paul cheng's church, they focus at young people, because these kind people , are educated, can sing well, can flow with contemporary music culture...
as for me? haha, I am old man...but flow with Jay Chow and may day...
so I am quite lost, in terms of identity...
Haha! lost in identity.. I see.
We did our best, the rest is up to the church members!
for elderly chinese church, we still can excel in other things to complement the poor singing and music part, for example,,,
close fellowship, prayer and of course, good sermon
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