Dear Worship Leader… Sincerely, The Non Worshipping New Guy

Dear Worship Leader…
What. Is. Up?!!!!!!!
I know it’s been a while.
4 years to be exact since I wrote you THOSE LAST FOUR LETTERS.
I decided to take a break from going to church after you made me raise my hands.
Kidding! I’m kidding. I just got tired of getting up on Sunday mornings when I could just as easily download Matt Chandler’s podcast and get what I need without all the SHAZAAAM and stuff.

So why am I writing you this letter?
Well guess what?
I’m coming back to church this Sunday.
Yup. I am heading back. But it’s not really for me. I mean I left the first time because church used to suck the living life out of me.
You guys seem to be doing better an not sucking and I have this friend.
See this friend of mine is in the same shoes I was in 4 years ago.
She hates church.
And guess what? I’m bringing her to YOUR church this Sunday.
So if you wouldn’t mind taking me up and listening to 2 thoughts that I think would make both of us a little more comfortable this Sunday.
Cool. Thanks…
1. Even though I haven’t been going to church I HAVE been following you on twitter. Man you retweet Jon Acuff a lot. Anyways, And I saw you tweet a link to a Passionate or Passion or Passé something last week? I clicked it.
Holy Crap.
That was the most unbelievable display of awesomeness I have ever experienced on Google Chrome.
Was that a church or something?!
Cause Lord knows that wasn’t YOUR CHURCH.
I mean who WOULDN’T get inspired after seeing something like that?
BUT, I heed you a warning… Those 60k people in the GA Dome last week, they aren’t us.
They aren’t the ones who are going to be filling your seats this Sunday.
So just don’t get worship mad at us when we don’t join on God’s Great Dance Floor with you.

If you SLOWLY TEACH us about God’s Great Dance Floor then maybe in a year or 2, me and my friend will actually even come to that Passionate thing with you. Cause it looked like a blast.
I’m thinking those people showed up with an expectation to shout unto God and well honestly, I’m showing up this Sunday with the expectation that you or the pastor won’t say anything that will destroy any chance of my friend ever coming back.

Oh.
Oh. And listen to Martin Smith’s, the writer of that Dance Floor song and OG king of all worship leaders, version if you want that British worship leader vibe thingy you like to do on stage…

2. My friend, she hates singing. Like, she hates it. I’m still not quite sure that everyone in the room loves it as much as you do, but we do it for half the service none the less. When you do your little “Worship Leader Fake Out”, you know the move, when you act like you are about to sing the next line then quickly back away from the mic, damn son, I hate it when you do that. At least TELL me you are about to turn down the volume on the radio as I’m trying to sing along with it.
And when you do that, if no one is singing, it’s because we don’t know what the crap we are supposed to be singing.
YOU are the worship LEADER remember… Help a brother out.
K Thanks.

Oh, and by the way, it has been 4 years, I’m thinking the really cowboy boots and deep V’s with the rosaries are probably out of style now.
Can’t wait to see what Urban Outfitters has been dressing you in lately!

Sincerely…
The Non Worshipping New Guy

http://twitter.com/clscholes Conor Scholes

The worship leader fake out…nice.
http://twitter.com/clscholes Conor Scholes

And I didn’t finish the thought…great reminder as we get back to it.
http://www.facebook.com/danwaits Dan Waits

has he seen your tats? That might freak him out worse! LOL
http://www.facebook.com/dannyeason Danny Eason

“Worship leader fake out.” That is gold right there.
Laura-Leigh

I was at Passion. Thought I fell in love with the Chris Tomlin version of “Dance Floor”. I didn’t. I thought I did. But then I heard that song. So much better. Nothing against Tomlin, but whoa. Golden.

http://www.facebook.com/matreames Mathew Garrett Reames

that is why Martin Smith is the OG of worship, if you search his name on the CCLI songselect database he is credited for writing or co-writing 172 songs, and probably 150 of them are amazing. He is Legit.

http://www.facebook.com/dallasStevens3 Dallas Stevens III

love this. literally LoL’d not like fake LoL’d like we all time when we didnt really actually find ourselves making literal laughing noise out of our mouths. so i guess that’s LLoL!
http://www.facebook.com/betsy.bierle Betsy Bierle

Ummm, what’s an OG king? Also, the computer graphics person doesn’t really appreciate the worship leader fake out. Nothing like unexpectedly becoming the worship leader while you sit behind a computer screen somewhere in the back of the church.
http://twitter.com/annieblogs Annie Downs

British version FTW.
http://www.andygill.org/ Andy Gill

Favorite part was the end:

“Oh, and by the way, it has been 4 years, I’m thinking the really cowboy boots and deep V’s with the rosaries are probably out of style now.
Can’t wait to see what Urban Outfitters has been dressing you in lately!”

Ha!
Melea

I was at Passion and you’re totally right.
Melea

I was at Passion and you’re totally right.
http://threethirtypm.com/ Jim Gray

Psych!
http://jskogerboe.com/ jskogerboe

Trumpet at 5:48 FTW. Thank you.
Ron

Hey Carlos, read the post, I usually agree 99.5% of the time but I think I am going to have to disagree on this for three reasons:

1) It is a stereotype to think that just because a person is “new” and hasn’t been to a church that that person is “non worshipping.” I say this because I along with other friends of mine were once “new” and didn’t even know how to find John 3:16 in the Bible. At that time, I thought it was more odd to see someone who had been in church for a while and supposedly had a relationship with God to just stand there and not even move when songs are being sung.

2) When a “new” person comes into an environment like Passion, it is inspiring to see people who are excited about something(or someone). This creates an electryfying environment that creates a desire within a person to want to come back. Think about it clubs and sports games create this type of environment all the time. Many times a person(new or not) does what he/she sees rather than what she/he is taught (like children)

3) In this day and time, most people who are “new” usually check out a place even before they make a decision to visit. In this age of Facebook, Youtube, and other outlets, most “new’ people don’t just stumble into an environment without first checking out what they are getting into. This is not to say that some things can go on that are odd, however, odd is relative and most new people know more about a ministry than many of the regular attendees do. I know I did.

Would love to hear your (or anyone elses)thoughts!
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http://twitter.com/BeckaRobinson Becka Robinson

“Can’t wait to see what Urban Outfitters has been dressing you in lately!” <- hahahahah. perfect.

Carlos Whittaker

Dear Worship Leader… Sincerely, The Non Worshipping New Guy

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