Welcome to the sojournmusic.com “Why Do Worship Leaders Do That?” series, in which Sojourn worship leader Lorie King talks about ten common gripes and questions that people in many churches have, concerning worship leaders. Lorie uses her experience as one of Pastor Mike Cosper’s long-time worship leaders at Sojourn and experiences leading worship in churches overseas and in the States to help worship leaders understand how they can use this criticism constructively, and also to help the Christian in the pew to understand the worship leader perspective.
You can find the articles where these “pet peeves” were originally publicized and tabulated at ragamuffinsoul.com and churchrelevance.com. Today we wrestle with Pet Peeve #7, corporate prayer led by a worship leader. We discuss issues such as:
- Prayer that is “too scripted.”
- Prayer that is “so random that it doesn’t make sense.”
- Prayer that is “rushed/dragged out to make the prayer fit the interlude.”
- When the worship leader prays the words of the songs.
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Discussion of Pet Peeve #1: Why Do Worship Leaders Ask People To Do Things Instead Of Just Singing?
Discussion of Pet Peeve #2: Why Do Worship Leaders Talk So Much In Between Songs?
Discussion of Pet Peeve #3: Why Do Worship Leaders Act Life Church Service Is A Concert?
Discussion of Pet Peeve #4: Why Are Worship Leaders So Unprofessional?
Discussion of Pet Peeve #5: Why Can’t Worship Leaders Sing Very Well?
Discussion of Pet Peeve #6: Why Are Their Clothes Or Body Language Distracting?
above photo taken by Dan Canales, featuring Sojourn worship leaders Katie Vaughn, Robert James and David Weir.
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