By Any Other Name

Jun 10

bradLinks, Music , , 1 Comment

I think sometimes we take the word “worship” for granted. We know deep down that it’s more than singing, and yet we typically mean “singing songs to God” when we talk about worship. It’s even in our titles: the “worship leader” is really “the song guy”, right?

In a recent blog post, Vicky Beeching takes on this topic:

Other church traditions – mine included- use “worship leader” to refer to the person who leads the musical and sung portion of the gathering. This also seems unhelpful, as it implies again that singing is the main or only form of “worship” in our spirituality, and also that we need someone at the front to enable this “worship” to take place…

Any ideas? What do you think good alternatives to “worship” and “worship leader” might be?  Perhaps “sung worship” and “song leader”? Other suggestions?

Jump over to Vicky’s blog for more discussion – there’s some good stuff in the comments.

So what say you all? What do we call it? And what do we call ourselves? What do you think?