Worship Distractions-Temperature
Nov 25, 2008 How To, Worship Planning
Posted by
Russell Martin
This past weekend I attended the National Youth Workers Convention in Nashville Tennessee. While there I was able to sit in the congregation while being led in worship by some awesome worship leaders like David Crowder, Mercy Me, Shane and Shane and Starfield. The music was awesome, the videos and screens were great, the stage was cool, and they sounded great, but one thing was definitely distracting. It was cold. It seemed that every general session with about 30 minutes the air kicked on and it got uncomfortably cold. It was so much so on one occasion I had to leave and go into the lobby.
So you may ask at this point why I would let something so insignificant as the temperature of the room bother me so. Well I am not sure but I know that it caused me to take my focus off of the music, the worship and to focus on the cold breeze on my back.
It made me aware that in my own worship service at my church that I need to pay attention to more than just the music, songs, screens, and stage. There are many things that can be distracting and many of them don’t have anything to do with the worship service itself.
Now I do have to say that I also feel a little guilty writing about the fact that I was distracted from worship by air conditioning when there are so many people who don’t have the freedom to worship that we have, much less a building, or air conditioning.
So I have two questions….
1. What other things have you found cause distractions in your worship services?
2. How should we react to people like me, who let something simple be a distraction to worship?
photo by Kristinn Nelson at CreativeMYK.com
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November 25th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
so, its safe to say you are on your way to becoming the old person who complains to trustees about temperature control in the sanctuary. always too cold or to hot. &:~)
i only made it to one session. i didn’t notice.
November 25th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
I think it was just where we were sitting. Atleast I am not complaining that it’s too loud yet.
November 25th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
haha! yeah, if you were on the 2nd level you could expect more of a breeze. friday night i was standing right in front of the speakers. it was loud.
November 27th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
how about the guitar solo in every song by one of the worship leaders at the NYWC. i think it´s funny they got left off your list. i don´t know if it was intentional, but jeez that was annoying! i don´t mind a guitar solo once in a blue moon, but it seemed like it was every song.
any yes, it was freezing in there a couple of times. i don´t think that the hockey ice under the main floor helped.