Those "you've been framed" worship moments II

[historymaker]

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I won't give names, but I will say that the worship leader in question (a truly anointed worship leader and song writer) was leading worship in a prominent church with hundreds of people in the meeting, which was being broadcast live on the internet.....I wish I had been there......

In a moment of awesome worship in the very presence of God, a prophetic prayer comes from the heart of the worship leader in the pure desire to have the HEARTS of the people set aflame for Him. So caught up in the beauty of the Lord was s/he that even forming the words properly became secondary:

"Lord......set our farts on fire!"

Worship leader and rest of worship team break out in fits of laughter, temporarily unable to breathe, never mind lead worship...

[Will]

We're rehearsing for one of our Christmas services. We come to the song made famous by Harry Belefonte and Boney M - "A long time ago in Bethlehem". From the previous year I know this takes a bit of work. The music is 5 sheets long. There is an intro, a repeated section, a further repeated section and another bit at the end. The musicians need to know their way around the music. This year, they do great in the practice. The singers then find it hard to fit all the words in, but after 3 or 4 goes get it nailed. Fantastic work by everyone.

The song is structured verse, chorus, verse, verse, chorus, verse, verse, chorus, end bit.

Come the day of the service we are trying our new projector systems and software for the first time. This is a great song, and we've put a lot of effort into getting it right. Calypso style, the works......

The song starts fine, we sing the first verse, chorus, second verse, and then, you've guessed it, the screen shows the chorus, whilst the singers and band plough on with the third verse (or at least the singers do the first line).

We learnt a useful lesson about the new software and projector on that day.

[wulf]

That reminds me of an incident when I jumped into the next song as soon as I saw the kid on the OHP had changed the acetate (projection is currently a 'youth ministry' at our church, although there normally some adults around to give some supervision)....

I think it wasn't until somewhere in the second verse that the increasing air of confusion in the room sparked something in the dim recesses of my brain and I looked up to see that the song we were trying to lead wasn't the one currently being projected on the screen.

Ho-hum - it was a 'trainwreck' but at least that one gave us a laugh

Wulf

[t_rib]

"Lord......set our farts on fire!"

Worship leader and rest of worship team break out in fits of laughter, temporarily unable to breathe, never mind lead worship...

This was hilarious - I was laughing so hard when I read this! Definitly gets my vote...(I was also trying to contain my laughter as my hubby has just gone to sleep, and that made the laughing even worse )

[peter]

I dont have a 'YBF' moment, so this week i shall be mostly trying my hardest to make something hilarious happen... wether i succeed will be another matter...

[wulf]

... the song we were trying to lead wasn't the one currently being projected on the screen.

I think this is a dangerous thread to post to - almost exactly the same thing happened this morning. The leader had just moved us into a song that is newish to us, Great is Your Faithfulness by Chris Tomlin, and made a point that it was a different song from Great is Thy Faithfulness.

I was standing in a position where I could see the screen quite clearly today and noticed straight away that it was the latter song being displayed. My 'stage whisper' of "that's the wrong song" was obviously too quiet so I had to put down the bass, bound over to the projector, dig the correct lyrics out of the box and then get back, just about in time for the second verse...

Wulf

[moakes]

I don't know how true this one is but was mentioned in our Pastor's message this morning.

A funeral service was carried out in a liturgical fashion and the vicar decided he would basically use the stuff he used at the last funeral - a word-processed order of service. All he had to do was a "search and replace" for the names of the two deceased ladies - i.e. change the word "Mary" to "Edna".

So he gets to a bit where the congregation have to read out something like - "Jesus Christ....Gods son.....blah blah bah....conceived of the Holy Spirit and born from the virgin Edna.....!!!"

Not quite a Worship You've been framed, but worthy of a mention I think

[spooner]

LOL

[San]

I was leading last Sunday. Everything was going well. The children had gone to their groups. The new PA system was working OK. I was enjoying our time of worship and then we got to the Intersession time.
I said " It would be good if during this time of open worship a few of us lead in prayer for various situations. Maybe someone could pray for a world concern and someone for our government and I'll finish this by praying for the local community."
There were general nods so I closed my eyes and waited....and waited...then...A elderly lady sitting in the front said she thought we should pray for.... and named a man and said that he was in a great danger and suffering persecution in..and named a country...The congregation glanced her way then turned their eyes back on me....I didn't know the man she had spoken of and started listing the missionaries we support in my mind, incase it was one of them....the lady continued by telling us a little more detail of the man.....there was a deathly hush...by now my mind had gone into overdrive and I stood there silently saying to God...HELP...then a small voice behind me whispered..."It happened 20 yrs ago"....The small voice repeated it....I turned to see my pastor leaning towards me from his chair.."It happened 20 yrs ago. She's been reading a book about him" and he grinned

I prayed for this particular country and then a couple of folks prayed for other places and we continued on our way....

[revjames]

We had a guy in church who would pray for a very long time about the most inapropriate things. He would pray for the Eskimos, he would tell God what he read in his 'Daily Bread' He just used to go on and on and on...... you get the picture!

One particular occasion I was leading a prayer and intercession meeting in the church. This is the sort of meeting where we would not expect people to be confined to chairs and were free to walk about as they were praying. This particular chap got up and started his usual prayer for everybody and everything and it went on and on. I was caught by one of the members walking around behind him with an imaginary catapult aimed at his head! (You may have seen Basil in Fawlty Towers behind the deaf woman doing the same thing!)

In the same church (this was in New Zealand) there was a guy who would question new people as they came in to church. He was just being friendly but it was very intrusive and off putting to the visitors. One week my brother 'pastorsparky' was visiting us from Wales. I told this guy that Simon did not speak any English at all and that I would have to interpret for him. I also told him that because Simon was born in Wales we (his family) all had to learn Welsh so that we would be able to understand him when he learnt to talk but he still didnt cotton on that we were winding him up. Simon spoke in Welsh and I translated for him. This guy did the usual 'speaking to foreigners' thing and began talking very slowly and loudly making exaggerated gestures to ensure he could be understood. After a few minutes Simon and I could contain it no longer and burst into laughter. Unfortunately the guy was furious and stormed off ranting "theres always 2 jokers in a pack"!!!

[spooner]

roflol
That was just what i needed - thanks Rev

[Alyson]

revjames - two corkers! The first (imaginary catapult) had me laughing out loud and I'm still grinning! The Welsh trick was also excellent but what a shame the poor guy took it so badly! (some people apparently have no sense of humour!)

God bless.

Alyson

[revjames]

Ok last one... for a while anyway. Christmas service a few years ago in my pre - pastor days. A particular young man always fancied himself as a singer and reckoned himself to have a good voice. This however was a matter of opinion. He was desperate for a singing role in the service and eventually the pastor caved in to the pressure and allowed him to sing 'I'm dreaming of a white Christmas' He duly arrived that night dressed up in his best suit and raring to go. He didnt think it strange that there was step ladder on stage when he got up under the spotlights to perform. As he sung the 'White Christmas' part for the final time, a person (who shall remain nameless) crept up the ladder with a box containing three bags of white flour, wood shavings, sawdust and all kinds of orrible stuff which was generally white in colour. Right on cue the whole box went over him. It was very funny but we did underestimate how far the flour would go and a few audience members looked like homepride flour graders! - I should add that those who were on cleaning duty that week were NOT impressed at all!

[t_rib]

Shame - how could you! (I am just sure that was you James...)

Btw, how did that guy react?

T

[moakes]

Not quite a worship moment but well worth a mention here!
This morning at church our pastor was speaking about us being created in the potter's hand.

Well as a little bit of a warm up before the service he decides to get 10 or so lads up on the stage. When I say lads I mean blokes!!

Luke whom you know and love is part of the crowd. The idea is that he will show photo's of the father's of the blokes on stage on the screen and the congregation have to guess which dad belongs to whom.

All goes well till he shows us Lukes dad and pops a picture of Darth Vader on the screen!! I've never laughed so much in a service before! Especially when Leon (pastor) says - I've been wanting to do that gag for ages. Congregation were very amused!!

(sorry Luke!!! - but it was funny!!!)