There is an ongoing heated debate among tech type people and worship leaders. The debate is whether or not graphic/lyric monitors should be used during a church service wherever music is needed. The tech people say that worship leaders (and background vocalists) should simply memorize their words thus eliminating the need for any monitors on stage or otherwise. But worship leaders claim that those tech types don't understand the complexities of said memorization and consequences that many times results in humiliation from accidentally forgetting ones words. Let the following video put an end to this debate once and for all.
It may sway in favor of monitors, but definitely confirms there shoudn't ever be ice on stage...
Posted by: Anne Jackson | April 14, 2006 at 04:16 AM
Gee, I don't have a problem with you rockstars having a monitor on stage...as long as you sing the words that I put on it and don't decide to do another chorus or something! :-)
And that video ruins my idea for putting ice on stage...back to the drawing board.
Posted by: Steve | April 14, 2006 at 06:45 AM
My vote is that all worship leaders be forced to wear hockey uniforms when leading worship...it brings you closer to God!!! Ice, no ice..whatever, that is debatable upthere on stage, but you should always were the uniforms!!! Pads and all...
Posted by: Kristiapplesauce | April 14, 2006 at 08:25 AM
i've often wondered about that actually. not to accuse worship leaders of not truly engaging in worship - but if you don't know the words and are reading a screen are you genuinely focusing on worship or just concerned that you won't mess up?
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although speaking as someone who used to compete vocally as a soloist... i would have liked to have had a monitor...
Posted by: Crystal Renaud | April 14, 2006 at 08:48 AM
Okay, now I feel that I need to add something serious...I think that it is distracting when you/I/one is singing...and the people leading you don't know the words. Like I feel that singing brings you into the realm of God...like preparing you to hear the message..(of course this could open a whole can of worms), but when those leading screw(s) up the song...it pulls me away from the worship. Like why arn't they prepared? I don't care if they have monitors or not...I just think they need to be ready. Like if I am going to present my gift(s) to Christ, I want it to be the very best it can be...and if that means using a t.v. to help me out and to bring people closer to Him...so be it....why is this even an issue?
Posted by: Kristiapplesauce | April 14, 2006 at 09:08 AM
geez. kristiapplesauce needs to get her own blog.
Posted by: lola | April 14, 2006 at 10:49 AM
If we lip-sync'd and used tracks like 95% of the "live" music we see or hear, we could certainly not use monitors. I think worship leaders are like soap opera actors--they do a lot of shows with only one take! We are expected to be like performers who do one show many times or one scene with mulitiple takes. Of course this is not fair, but just how it is. I love the hockey outfit idea--we already spent a whole summer in football jerseys one year.
Posted by: Rich | April 14, 2006 at 03:18 PM
ok doesn't anybody just think that is funny!!!!
Posted by: Candra | April 17, 2006 at 12:50 PM
Just let the tech-folk that if you don't need monitors, neither do they. After all, they should have memorized all the mouse clicks and Shoutcast widgets by now. (The scary thing is, a few of them might take you up on it)
Posted by: steadyrock | April 18, 2006 at 05:15 PM