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Ministry Lessons Learned

August 26, 2009 3 Comments

At my church, worship is led by volunteers who rotate from week to week. This past weekend, I had the privilege of co-leading with another volunteer. We had a funny mishap during communion, which I wrote about on my personal blog. The experience has led me to consider how oftentimes real lessons are learned from awkward, funny, or embarrassing moments in ministry. So, I thought that I would pose the question here: What ministry lessons have you learned through an embarrassing moment? Leave your comment below.

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Filed Under: Church Life, Worship Leaders, Worship Talk on the Web Tagged With: communion, leading worship, Mishap, worship, worship leading

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  1. Justin Tuley says

    August 28, 2009 at 12:25 pm

    I am relatively new to leading worship and I have found that the most awkward things are when you take your self seriously, like forgetting which song you are singing…in the middle of the song. This is where sheet music or backup lyrics would’ve been quite the life-saver.

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  2. David Red says

    September 1, 2009 at 10:54 am

    Never NEVER!!! Ask a woman when the baby is due, until you KNOW FOR SURE that she is pregnant. NUF said. 🙂

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  3. Chris Jones says

    September 1, 2009 at 11:15 pm

    Back in the ’70’s, a Texas minister of music was leading the song, “Happiness Is.” The beginning of the chorus goes, “Real joy is mine, no matter when teardrops start…” Well, the minister forgot the words temporarily and started to say “…no matter when teardrops FALL.” He realized his mistake as he started to sing the last word. Unfortunately, as he sang, the last word came out with the “f” from fall, followed by the “art” from start. He tried to go on, but to no avail. They had to stop the song and the whole congregation broke up and had a good laugh.

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