KEYS
RECOGNIZE THE SWEET SPOT | David Pfaltzgraff
If I asked you to recall the most impactful time of worship at church you ’ ve ever served in the band for , would something immediately come to mind ? Think about it for a minute . What was the setlist , was it for a special service or just a run of the mill Sunday ? Who was in the band , what parts did you play ?
Maybe it was that one Easter Sunday as your team executed a flawless dynamic build after many hours of diligent practice at home and extra mid-week rehearsals ?
Or perhaps it was that service with an unexpected power outage when your team pivoted to acoustic worship on the fly and the congregation took over as you all refused to let a lack of electricity keep you from praising together ?
If your kids are old enough to volunteer in the band too , I suppose that might be near the top of your list as you led worship together for the first time .
Hopefully you have a handful of memories like this . When things clicked . When distractions got out of the way . Where everyone was focused on the real purpose , on Who we do this for and the people in the room you ’ re serving .
I ’ ve found that most worship musician people in America like the TV show ‘ The Office ’. I ’ m not sure why , but the Venn diagram of folks just crazy enough to volunteer on worship teams and folks who enjoy laughing at the delightful disfunction of the Dunder Mifflin employees is basically a circle .
In the final episode of that show , a character makes a rather earnest statement towards the end . ‘ I wish there was a way to know you ’ re in the good old days , before you ’ ve actually left them .’
As worship leaders and musicians , we have the opportunity to participate in creating meaningful , unifying times of corporate worship . But because Sunday comes every single week sometimes it can be hard to recognize you ’ re in the ‘ good old days ’ until you look back on a service afterwards and count it as such .
From the worship keys position I think there ’ s a few things we can do to better facilitate those memorable moments and here ’ s the good news : if you can work on being better prepared for them , they also get more likely to happen over time .
PREPARE FOR IT
In my experience , behind many of the most powerful ‘ organic ’ moments of corporate worship is a group of musicians and leaders who took the time to practice , plan , and prepare for what they hoped would happen .
I ’ m not talking about scripting out ‘ improvised ’ worship that leads to play acting from the stage . This isn ’ t about pretending you ’ re ad-libbing when you ’ ve truly been practicing for weeks .
Rather , I ’ m referring to a posture of preparation and practice from the keys that leads to confidence when there ’ s a moment to be seized upon .
At the end of the day , we must trust that God
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