Feeding Lyrics During Worship
It’s a common practice among worship leaders to “feed” lyrics to the congregation before a verse or chorus or any part where a little extra emphasis could be used. It’s also good when teaching a new song or if for some reason your lyric screens go blank or freeze or some problem arises where the congregation is left without words to reference. It’s not something that needs to be done every song but isn’t necessarily distracting either. But as I have discovered this is a practice that can also be very distracting during worship. You have to really plan ahead to make sure that you are “cheerleading” or “feeding” words at the appropriate time in the songs. Take for example my mistake last Sunday. We were singing Days of Elijah which is a great song with a bridge that is maybe a little extended for my taste. Anyway at the bridge as the band is getting bigger and the song is building momentum I decide to emphasize the upcoming lyrics. I didn’t plan my time between phrases real well and was left saying, Let’s sing it out There’s no God…” Oops! Maybe no one realized it except the 2-3 atheists forced to come that day by a relative or friend. Well I noticed and just laughed to myself and moved on. I guess the main point here, the general thesis or what I am trying to say, the central theme for this blog post is to be aware of the phrase break time and the words you want to fit into them. Otherwise you may find yourself on stage shouting “let’s sing it out, Touch Me…” and garnering some strange looks from some.
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