Have you ever been on stage, getting ready to start singing, everyone is listening to the intro music and ready to give their all in worship, and then it happens… You start to sing and NO ONE goes with you. The song is too high. The women are screaming and the men don’t want to sing in the key that you are in so they try to sing lower and they are growling. But you’ve already started the song and you hav to finish. You’re stuck in Wrong Key Land. You can’t get out for another 3 minutes or so. Those 3 minutes feel like FOREVER! You can’t do anything to fix it. You wonder why you ever started singing in the first place. You want to cut off your hands and hide in a box for a month…okay maybe not THAT bad but you get the picture.

Right now I am still in that stage at my new church. Worship leaders will tell you this and non worship leaders may have never thought about it, but churches have a key. And sometimes finding that key takes a little time. Sometimes you find it rather quickly, like I did at my previous church. Sometimes it takes a few weeks, like it’s taking at my current church. My hope is that it doesn’t take too long because people will eventually stop singing and they look at you in that ‘poor kid, he has no idea’ look.

If you’re an experienced worship leader that has experienced this, how did you fix it? Or did you? If you haven’t had much practice with this, just know that it WILL happen.

Tags: Choir, Church, leader, Sunday morning blunders