Worship Live Livid with Audience
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - Recently at North Central University, the worship band designated to lead music during the majority of the mandatory chapel services has grown increasingly fed up with their audience. “They just don’t take us literally when we say to hold the applause ‘til we’re finished with the song. When everyone tries clapping during the song, it just throws the groove off,” explains the Worship Live bassist.
Another problem that has arisen for Worship Live is it seems most people are not even paying attention to them. “Half of the concert hall has their eyes closed while they’re reaching out to us. The support is nice but honestly, we want all your attention not just half of it,” added their drummer.
Worship Live is a group of students plucked from the ranks of mainly Music Majors to perform almost everyday at 11:00 AM at the Trask Worship Center on the NCU campus. They represent the best of the best at NCU, if not just the ones with the most time on their hands. This lack of enthusiasm towards their performances has become a growing concern for the members and organizers of the group.
“With the record industry in such a state of distress, live shows are the best way to judge if your music is actually reaching people. CD sales and Billboard charts are almost meaningless.” A North Central Music Professor states. “If Worship Live isn’t getting their support during Chapel they may as well just forget about getting the funding to cut a record this year.”
So with the fate of this year’s Worship Live up in the air, the group has been scouring the internet and Christian Book stores for all the Hillsong CD’s they can find. The acoustic guitarist explains, “We have to hit ‘em hard, and nothing does that like a song written in Australia that is extremely overused during the summer camp season.” - BERNSTEIN
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Bernstein
Wednesday, September 5, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Who are you to judge the motives of the people playing on stage?
Wednesday, September 5, 2007 at 9:59 pm
Haha, i love it!
Thursday, September 6, 2007 at 12:12 am
I don’t know what you’re talking about. Hillsong United will always be classic no matter how many times I have heard it played and replayed this summer at camp…..Those Aussies know what they are talking about! It takes a real worship band to recreate something like “One Way, Jesus” almost to perfection…
Wednesday, September 12, 2007 at 10:11 pm
I’ll be sure to keep my eyes open when reaching out in adoration of the worship band (and the always hot lead guitarist) next time I’m in chapel…
Saturday, September 15, 2007 at 10:38 pm
In my experience, Hillsong is overplayed (but still great), the lead Guitarist is rarely good-looking (this year he kind ogf looks like a weasely woodland-creature), and finally, freedom of the press does not judge motives, it only presents them. The reader does the judging.
I must say though…Worship Live is less concerty this year and more Worship leading-centered.
Cheers on the great report.
-Edward Rockwell,
Aspiring Reporter
Monday, September 24, 2007 at 4:05 pm
I agree with Rockwell, I also have noticed the change in worship in this year’s chapel services. It’s like they are actually allowed to lead in worship now, as opposed to being told what to do and having to do it?
I’ve enjoyed worship this year, and the awareness of the presence of God, more than my previous years combined. Except for first year, you know, freshmen.
Saturday, October 13, 2007 at 4:13 am
Why won’t anyone listen to me? I’m asked on a daily basis (no pun intended) to lay down some sort of foundation for the music in chapel and all i ask for is one simple thing…. firm, continuous, ON TEMPO, claping participation from the croud but no!!!!! i guess that’s just WAAAAAY too much to ask for. (serously, i wish that there was just some way that we as the musicians on stage could convey some sort of idea we have for tempo and rhythem to the congregation…. OH WAIT, we do AND THEY’RE CALLED DRUMS!!!???!!!)
on an actual serious note though, i am glad that we as student have been given a little more breathing room when it comes to preparing and delivering the worship (in the form of music) in chapel. it’s been a fucus this year that our goal to be, to create an atmosphere where our friends(you) have an opportunity to have some sort of colision with God in the few moments we’re given.
as for hillsong… i’m totally with ya on the overplayed. (my fingers can only take so much “salvation is here”
but c’mon… it’s Brook Fraser…. **COUGHcrushofmylifeCOUGH*** (feel free to email me the worship song that you wrote this summer that’s obviously sooooo much better.
Saturday, October 13, 2007 at 4:10 pm
ALL CHARACTERS AND EVENTS IN THIS BLOG– EVEN THOSE BASED ON REAL PEOPLE– ARE ENTIRELY FICTIONAL. ALL NCU STAFF/FACULTY/STUDENT ACTIONS, IDEAS OR QUOTES ARE DRAMATIZED….. POORLY. THE PRECEDING ARTICLE CONTAINS MILD SATIRE AND DUE TO ITS CONTENT SHOULD NOT BE READ BY ANYONE.
Translated- you weren’t mentioned.
Saturday, October 13, 2007 at 10:09 pm
i just read the article and think it’s wierd how bernstein appeared to interview someone (now seeing he just made up the statement) and then proceded to mock their posted responce. i thought the goal was to inspire real though by real people…. with fake names.
Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 12:25 am
What bothers me about this whole thing is that we are overlooking a very real problem! It is absurd that students “sing” during the instrumental sections of the worship songs . . . when what they are suppose to be doing is worshiping . . . the band!
Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 4:09 pm
…obviously.
Sunday, October 14, 2007 at 10:34 pm
sat·ire (sāt’īr’
Pronunciation Key
n.
1. A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit.
2. The branch of literature constituting such works. See Synonyms at caricature.
3. Irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose folly, vice, or stupidity.
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own”–Jonathan Swift
Monday, October 15, 2007 at 2:42 pm
i find it intriguing that somone (nameless, apearing to be that in a round-about way not wanting any ill-directed thoughts caused by the words out of their mouths sent their way) can copy and paste a definition from their powerBook’s “dashboard dictionary” to feel like they have truly shown the light. -thank you apple. Each has her/his right to sharing their own opinion, it just comes incredibly that much more facile to do so when one is not required to take responciblity for the words they say. especially behind the facad of a fake name.
“For most men (till by losing rendered sager) Will back their own opinion is by a wager.” -Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Monday, October 15, 2007 at 6:36 pm
lol…. it’s important that we don’t take ourselves too seriously.
“You can’t give the Sword of a Thousand Truths to a noob!”
- Blizzard Exec on South Park Episode “Make Love, Not Warcraft”
Monday, October 15, 2007 at 11:31 pm
We should quote more.
“The sky is not my limit, it’s my playground.” -Michael Jordan (or Michael Jackson, I can’t for the darnedest remember…. oh wait maybe it was Magic Johnson or Michael Johnson.)
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 2:01 am
everyone thinks that they’ve been plighted even if they haven’t..or even if they have…you won’t ever really know…ah the joy of a good plighting…
“The gods too are fond of a joke”
-Aristotle
(i dunno it was the Quote of the Day on my Powerbook’s dashboard-thank you apple.)
Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 3:17 am
Man, i wish i knew how to use my apple dashboard thingy. I should have never reformatted my powerbook to look exactly like a sony vaio, and then i took all the decal’s off and threw on a Dell logo. But my 13-17 inch screen looks sweet when i log into Safari and search the web. I even wrote a song on garageband and uploaded it onto my windows media player. I’m so glad the new linux os sinc’s to my ipod way faster than my old compaq. If only there were widgets for pc’s….
Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 3:19 am
oh wait.
“Cornbread! There ain’t nothing wrong with that!”
-Chris Rock
Sunday, October 21, 2007 at 9:29 pm
I like this site.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 9:23 pm
You know, I truly feel this is a misrepresentation. Honestly. We aren’t there to worship the band. We’re there to worship ourselves by pretending to look good worshipping God. My favorite is raising my hands at just the right moment to look perfectly dramatic for that girl standing nearby, who granted isn’t looking, but later on in the service I’ll end up using praying for her as an excuse to put my arm around her. Another thing I love doing is singing in my amazing voice that overwhelms everyone else’s experience and makes their worship experience entirely frustrating. Hey, I gotta flaunt my stuff somehow!
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 9:27 pm
You’ve inspired me to write a follow up article. Entitled “Congregation Loves Worshipping Selves”. Thanks for the comment, good stuff.