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lol we've heard enough stories of Al naked! Was this at HTB or Soul Survivor Tim?

I've never led worship so I'm afraid I don't have any stories to share.

I once led 'All Who Are Thirsty' in 4/4 time. I realized it halfway and fought through it. It made for a very long rendition.

haha well have had no naked people.....but....

I once tried to do a foot signal to go into a chorus and didn't realise i had my wire around my foot, I tripped and fell into the drum kit and destroyed everything!! (I was tempted to stay down and pretend it was the Spirit!!)

I sang In Christ alone and missed out the 3rd verse (so just missed out that little thing to do with our of death and resurrection!) I realised half way through the last verse, when we finished the song i apologised and we sang the 3rd verse (and whats even stranger was the congregation really went for more than ive ever seen it!) ...oh and the Bishop was there ;)

I heard Ben Cantelon at Soul Survivor when leading "see His love" sing the line "Devon beckons me" I thought it might be prophetic ;)

Chris

Tell a lie I have one remotely related to worship. It was at the last Worship Central day in London (March). I had been operating one of the cameras at the the back of the venue all day, standing on a raised platform. It was the 'dinner' break and I was resting downstairs in some room. So I was sitting down there and just happened to glance at my crotch. Only to find out that I had a massive hole in my trousers which went from the bottom of the zip for about three inches down. Earlier on in the day when I jumped up on to one of the platforms I heard a rip but didn't think much of it. There wasn't much I could do so for the rest of the evening I had to operate the cameras with my legs crossed lol Was just glad I wore some pants that day!

Made sure I didn't make the same mistake this last WC past! And if any of you were wondering what is that camera operator doing with a whole in his trousers, now you know.

Last sunday i had a horror moment! we started playing who is like you? by neil bennets and i was coleading. As i stepped forward to the mic i suddendly realised my shorts were slowly edging down my legs. To my horror i then saw that the buttton had fallen off and, without a belt, they had no way of staying up. I then had to push my guitar into my shorts to stop them faling down anymore.... altho im sure the keyboardist would be horrified if they looked over there music stand behind me.....
I then had to get off the stage and pretend to hold my pocket off and walked out in front of everyone! I then couldnt find any string and found a bright green ribbon in the bin of the kitcen and tied that around everyone... then walking infront of everyone with my big green ribbon round my waste i carried on.... looking great!

I've fallen over the piano several times... that's the most embarrasing thing I'm brave enough to mention!

I havn't had many horror moments leading worship at church fortunately, i can only remember one where we were playing we'll walk the land by Graham Kendrick and i played the intro in the wrong key without realising then expecting everyone in the band to join in only to turn round and find a lot of confused faces lol, was quite embarassing

Going back a few years - I was leading with a new bass player in the band for the first time, he was young-ish at the time and was new to it all.
Anyhow, the second song in the set was in E and I was supposed to play D chords with capo on the second fret. The song was starting quietly and I get hearing these bum notes behind me, so I looked down at my fret board and discovered that I'd whacked the capo on the third fret.

I glanced back at the bassist and tried to make a comforting, apologetic and a "silly me" face, to this young lad sweating away behind me. Unbeknown to me it's seems my facial expressions were read more as "what are you playing at you new-boy muppet!".

Trying to be even more helpful, as soon as I had the chance I turned round and mouthed "I'm in F". At which point the bass looked really sheepish and nervous, he return the blankest of blank looks in a very shell shocked kinda way.
I later found out, he thought I was really angry and said "Are you deaf".

Haha I'm not sure where to start....

The one that has stuck out for me was whilst i was leading worship at my old church in Littlehampton. We had a guest speaker come in, just done an incredable talk and then decided to have a time of ministry. He called the band up to play a bit of backround music and then called on the holy spirit to come and meet with people.

There was silence as God was moving in people, i walked up to my guitar, gently picked it up and placed it round my neck, whispered to the band 'Keep in low'. As my hand strummed the first chord of the song, i felt my hand not finish playing the chord....and.......BANG!!! My guitar had smashed to the floor creating a huge noise in which the congreation responded (at last!) with a deep 'oooooooooooohhhhhhh'. The strap was not on properly and one end had slipped off, and unfortunately wasnt quick enough to grab it.

The worst thing of all.....it wasn't my guitar! My mate Steve had lent me his guitar and was standing just a few rows from the front....i looked up to see his face in horror with a cringing expression communicating 'I'm never ever lending Tom my guitar again!'

Phew!!! Im glad that meeting is in the past....

Keep em coming!!!

T

I have heard somebody sing the following booboos:

1 - More of me and less of You, oh Jesus. (other similar songs to stuff up would go "I must increase, You must decrease")

2 - I am a shepherd and You are a sheep.

Anyone else got any embarrassing word mix ups?