years ago at my church the guy announcing the songs was supposed to announce "Turn To Me" as our communion song, and he said "Our Communion song will be "Turn me on." Poor guy left the church and no one ever saw him again....
When I first started leading I was a youth. We were doing Days of Elijah (back in the day) and I intro’d the bridge by shouting, “There’s no God!” For the youngsters reading this, the first line of the bridge is “There’s no God like Jehovah…”
I was praying before going into “give us clean hands” and wanted to convey that we as a congregation wanted to lay down our idols, and much like in the temple with Dagon, asked God to “crush” and “destroy” or idols. But I didn’t say “idols.” I had just learned in my Old Testament class how to properly say the name “Ba’al.” But I don’t say it that way. Instead I said “Ball.” And proceeded to pray, Lord, we lay our “Ba’als” at your feet and ask that you would crush and destroy our “Ba’als….” I was so embarrassed lol
This one definitely takes the prize. LOL I guess it could have been worse, wait a minute maybe not. LOL I'm sorry that happened to you but that was really funny. I know if it was me I would have been crushed
Not me, but an old pastor of mine told me the story of his previous worship leader who flipped the consonants in Indescribable so that “heavenly storehouses” became “steavenly whorehouses”. I imagine that one was pretty rough
A friend of mine played me a recording once of him leading worship where he told the congregation, "stand and worship with us".....only the word "with" accidentally got missed, LOL!
IDK man, my pastor once introduced me as a Minstrel. I started a song and had guitar issues. Told the church I was having minstrel problems.....they all heard men...not min.... its recorded online forever......
I just became the Contemporary Worship Leader at my church this past November. My predecessor is an amazing leader, awesome musician, and all around great guy. It was never, and still isn't my goal to "replace" him, but I feel there is still a certain degree of pressure on me to be adequate in the position. I got so nervous leading up to the service that I lost most of my singing voice during the sound check before the service. On top of that, as the countdown video was coming to an end, my hands were shaking so much that I dropped my guitar pick on the stage. We livestream our service on RUclips, and as the countdown reached 0:00 you can see the lights come up and the camera cuts live to the stage with me bent over trying with every shaking fiber of my being to get my guitar pick up off the stage floor where it seemed to have just been glued with an industrial strength epoxy. After what seemed like an eternity, filled with the deafening sound of silence and anticipation, I was able to pry the 50 cent piece of plastic off the floor, and we were able to begin the service. At the end of the day, my other band members took the load off me vocally, and despite my issues, the worship service went on, and God was praised. After the service came the encouraging remarks from my peers which were all pretty close to "well at least it can only get better from here!" I was reminded from this experience that God is bigger than me and whatever obstacles I may be facing. God is faithful, he comes through when we need Him. To God be the Glory!
Another more recent moment: We usually have a "Passing the Peace" time during the service. The lead pastor forgot to inform everyone that was supposed to happen and returned to his seat. I knew what was supposed to be happening, so I went up to the microphone and asked everyone to stand and pass the Peace of Christ. The only problem was, I said it in such a frantic rush it came out as, "pass the PIZZA CRUST!"
I was leading How Deep the Father's Love For Us, the last verse starts with "I will not boast in anything" and then (with the same melody) says "But I will boast in Jesus Christ" On the repeat of that last verse... the big one... everyone is really into it... and I belt out full voice: "I will not boast in Jesus Christ!" The laughter from the congregation killed the mood pretty quickly...
I love your channel fellas and the fact that you’re able to “talk” about this makes me love it even more. The vulnerability, the candidness, I mean in the end we’re all fallible and human.
Oh, I can sympathize, Brian! I'm an airline pilot, and on my second day in a plane with passengers my training captain turned to me and told me to do the arrival PA announcement. Now, I've been concentrating on learning flying stuff, so I haven't given a lot of thought to such things. I picked up the mic, and what I MEANT to say was, "we are about to turn on the seat belt sign, so if you need to get up and stretch your legs, now's the time." But what I ACTUALLY said was, "we are about to turn on the seat belt sign, so if you need to get up and SPREAD your legs, now's the time." Like you, I went wide-eyed and looked at my captain. I asked, "Did you hear that?" Him: "No, why?" Me: Good. I stayed in the cockpit until everyone was off the plane.
I remember in 2014, I had just graduated high school. I was leading at my local congregation, and I was singing the song “Made to Worship” by Chris Tomlin. The chorus goes like this: “You and I were made to worship, you and I are called to love. You and I are forgiven and free. You and I embrace surrender, you and I choose to believe, then you and I will see who we were meant to be”. So, a girl, that I had a tiny crush on at the time, walks into our service like a minute late (which should have been a red flag 😉 lol). Anyway, I made eye contact with her and I was just finishing the first chorus. I accidentally sang “then you and I will see *THAT* we were meant to be” 😂 I think my pastor was the only one who noticed, but I still didn’t talk to that girl for like a month afterward.. Me and this pastor still laugh about this to this day 😂
This wasn't my own moment, but I was on stage when it happened. A few years back, we had an individual leading the song "Yes and Amen", which starts off one of the verses with "Father of kindness, you have poured out grace"... For whatever reason, the vocalist had a momentary lapse and instead sang "Father of darkness...." We still pick on them for that little gem to this day...
oh my word this is gold 😂 my most embarrassing moment was while we were on a little worship tour in college. We had switched up the setlist a couple times leading up to getting on stage. When we went to transition to song 2 and I heard the drummer and guitar player clicking off and rolling into the intro which was WAYYYY too slow for what song I thought we were playing (they were right, I was wrong). So i look at my drummer in a panic telling him to cut it, half way through the intro they stop because I had missed my place to come in completely and the whole team was kinda like "the heck are you doing?". I nervously come up the mic in the dead silence and say "..ha...ha... we just learned this song recently haha.. we're gunna start it over". They restart the song and then I start playing the wrong chords, in all the anxiety I was totally blanking. I awkwardly walk across the stage to the keyboard player to peak at her chord sheet and then try to pick everything back up. Our team manager literally through his hands up and walked out in the midst of all this. IT WAS AWKWARDDD
Brain Fart...totally said "brain fart" on stage fifteen years ago. I had recently started leading worship for a larger congregation and was new to having a click run throughout the set--speaking with a click was so disorienting. The service was timed for broadcast, so everything was tightly scheduled. Finished praying and went to make an announcement. I started speaking and completely blanked on what I was supposed to say. Staring off into space, what I did say was, "brain fart". There was a pause that felt like a lifetime--like an out of body experience. Omnisphere still dishing out the D pad. I looked to the senior on the front row - his eyes like dinner plates - and said, "ahhh, ______, can you help me out?" He said, "Luke...did you just say 'brain fart'?". "...yes, I, ahhh...well, I, you know, I...let's come back to the announcement later". After the service, the senior just looked at me, with a grin, and said "you realize you just said 'fart' in front of thousands of people?". Praise the Lord, that recording was deleted. For years afterwards, it became a joke in staff meetings. When someone mentioned stumbling over words the previous Sunday, our senior would encourage them with, "well, at least you didn't say brain fart". I suppose the occasional joke at my expense made me feel better about it. Sure was embarrassing at the time, though. I still hang my head a bit whenever I think about that.
I was leading worship for our leadership team and we were singing Days of Elijah. We were coming up to the bridge, and I was planning on shouting out the entire line of the bridge which is, "There is no God like Jehovah." But I was a little bit delayed and all I had time for was the first half. So I just shouted out for everyone to hear, "There is no God!" Everybody just completely lost it and started laughing. Worship over.
It wasn’t really a fail, but our worship team was going to start the set with “Beautiful One “ by Tim Hughes. Right before we went on, our bass player said, we should say that we dedicate this song to Juan. I laughed the whole way through the first song because all I could hear in my head was “beautiful Juan” 😂
I was playing a friends favorite worship song at her funeral and my guitar strap came off in the middle of the song. Her husband came up to me later and said "I know she got a kick out of that from heaven". Ever since then I run strap locks on everything.
the most embarrassing mistake i’ve ever done worshiping in my church: forget 2 entire songs in my guitar debut my worship leader look at me and i felt his pain in his eyes
A few years ago I was leading worship for a youth group singing the song “Forever Reign”, when I get to “the richness of your love…” I think about a few lines ahead which starts with “nothing”, so I ended up singing “The richness of your love will NEVER be enough…”. I had to stop mid song and tell the kids how absolutely incorrect that was and restarted the song out of embarrassment 😂 good times.
My most embarrassing moment singing was at a funeral. I was asked to come & sing by our church, they had also asked the lead Praise & Worship guitarist to accompany me. When we get to the funeral it was in a pretty small setting. We were in the front, Mr Bob and his guitar were to my right and we were both going to sing into one microphone between us. I took the first verse of the old Hymn, He Touched Me. I began, “Shackled by a heavy burden, neath the load of sin and shame, then the hand of Jesus touched me”……..when I got to that part of the song, I and the guitar player leaned in & the end, neck of his guitar hit me right in my right breast 😳. Then the chorus….”He touched me, Oh yes, He touched me……and Oh the joy that floods my soul”….. Mr Bob, never cracked a smile, but it was all I could do to not turn red and laugh at a funeral….🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That’s hilarious … best (or worst) worship fail at my church was a Sunday where we were doing a song called “keep on singing” and when the lyrics came up on the screen is said “keep on sinning” … whoops 😅
Ah. I see you spent all your cringe points on 1 event. Whereas I have been slowly and methodically spreading mine out over the course of my entire worship leading career.
My worst was probably singing “Jesus Paid it All,” the big payoff in the last verse should be: And when, before the throne, I stand in Him complete, "Jesus died my soul to save," My lips shall still repeat. Instead, I sang: "Jesus died my soul to save," My sin shall still repeat. I had no idea until after the set and people came up to me asking, “did you realize you sang...?” 😳
I actually had a very similar situation happen to me about 7 years ago while leading worship on a Sunday. I was praying during a song transition and was trying to say something to the extent of “Thank you Lord that you’ve taken all of our SIN and SHAME….”. But I accidentally put the SH from Sham on the front of sin and stopped abruptly before I got the the N. So what I actually said was “Thank you Lord that you’ve taken all of our $!&@💩“ Tragic!
This was a long time ago when I was leading youth worship, but we were doing the song Be Glorified by Chris Tomlin, and the chorus says "You set my feet to dancing, You set my heart on fire..." and I accidently sang "You set my fart on fire...." You can imagine with youth that it was impossible to continue the rest of the service.
OH MY GOSH!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣 Lol, to me what makes it funnier is how nobody else on stage looks like they noticed. I'm one of those worship leaders who always turns my head and smiles whenever my teammates make a mistake, but I can imagine how my face would look if I heard that from the other musicians.
It was my turn for announcements. What I meant to say was, “We’re selling shirts that say ‘We Love our City’” What I actually said was “We have shirts that say “We Love Our Titties.” It happened, and no one present will ever forget. Mostly because a staff member took the recording of that moment and turned it into his ringtone.
All of these stories are great! I would like to share mine as well. Ok, so one time my worship team and I were playing the song “Days of Elijah”, you know the one where the Bridge goes “There’s no God like Jehovah.” Well, you know how sometimes worship leaders say a little part of the next lyric we sing before everyone sings that part. Well, as a lead up to everyone singing the bridge of “there’s no God like Jehovah” I say as loud as I can (because I’m really enjoying the song so far…) “THERE IS NO GOD!!!!” I immediately looked over at my pianist in horror of what I just said, and she gave me this dead eyed look like I just sacrificed a lamb on our alter. Oh man, my band definitely made fun of me for awhile after that.
So my worst fail so far back in 2014 due to the song "We Are Hungry." For a couple months prior to this day, the guitarists who were scheduled to play EG1 would make little mistakes on the big opening guitar riff. When I got scheduled for EG1 - and that song was on the set, I made it an internal mission to not mess it up, so the week prior I just ran the intro over and over and over and could play it without looking, pausing, i mean just nailed it. We got to rehearsal Sunday am, and again, I nailed it like a carpenter every single time. Now, come first service, our pre-roll music stops, and the drums count me in. Again I nailed it "We Are Hungry" intro. The only problem is that "We Are Hungry' was and was always the second song in the set. I was supposed to start the "Your Love Never Fails" guitar chords. Soooo. I ran through the intro, played a descending scale, and started into "YLNF."
That...is...awesome. My most embarrassing moment was when we had someone come out to the stage baptism tank, and get dunked. Hooray, clap, the usual. Then in my ears I heard, "One, two, intro, two three four..." so I immediately launched into the intro guitar lick of "So Will I". I played the whole first bar loud and proud before someone walked up to me and said something. I look over and the next person to be baptized and the pastor are just staring at me, waiting patiently. SOMEONE had started the track when they shouldn't have, not my fault! If I hadn't have gone into autopilot, I could have missed the start of the song (if it was timed correctly). Oh well, wasn't really that bad.
We had a high schooler leading us for his first time once and when he messed up a lyric, he mumbled, "oh sh--!" Into the mic... Only a few people heard it and I couldn't stop laughing...
I am still part of our worship team at church but 8 or 9 years ago from time to time I’d lead vocally and play guitar on a Wednesday night. One of those times I turned to signal to the drummer, bc Wednesday night team didn’t use in ears at the time, and when I turned back around I hit the mic stand with my guitar and had to stop playing to catch it and the rest of the band stopped with me… I came up with something inspirational to say and went into The Stand bc it was comfortable lol. I was so embarrassed! Lol
My father would have to be of a similar level. My father is a pastor and he was in the middle of a very passionate subject. In a bundle of emotions he was discussing the forgiveness of Christ. He meant to say “once forgiven, God doesn’t expect us to keep digging at what’s in our past” BUT instead says “once forgiven, God doesn’t expect us to keep digging at what’s in our behind” lol he got about 2 words out afterward and froze…my mom (the pastors wife) starts horse laughing the whole congregation just lost it. Lol dad was a champ
We have our announcements & offering between our fast and slow songs. One Sunday we had a guest speaker go to the restroom during offering. I, as the music and media person, went to make sure the sermon bumper was cued up. The guests mic was not muted mic and during offering everyone in the sanctuary heard the flush. It just so happened that I didn’t wear a belt that day and came back on stage fixing my pants. Whoops🤷♂️
Leading “It is So” by elevation a few years back, i get to the bridge where it says “your word is settled in heaven” Somehow I sing “yogurt is settled in heaven”. .. I still stand by the statement. There’s been much worse that I’ve managed to embarrass myself with but that was my favorite. Just like yogurt. Love it.
I started leading worship at a small church with a congregation of about 80 to 100 people. About two years into my service we had a 125th church anniversary celebration and invited a large number of past members, former pastors and other people who were significant to the church’s legacy. We started the day with our regular Sunday service, then had a big dinner for all the attendees followed by a celebration service. I thought I’d connect with the audience by talking about what a wonderful dinner we had all enjoyed, then started to lose my train of thought. I joked that I probably shouldn’t have eaten so much (never a good idea when you are about to sing) and the words came out something like “I hope I don’t have any unwanted gases going into this microphone.....”!!!! 😱😖🤦♀️ I meant that I hoped I wouldn’t burp, but it sounded more like I hoped I wouldn’t fart. I so wanted to explain myself, but I decided it was better to move on as quickly as possible. 12 years later, I’m still not that great at speaking off the cuff, but I’ve learned to either prepare better or just not say anything. 😬
About 25 years ago at youth camp, a friend and I were covering DC Talk’s cover of “I Wish We’d All Been Ready”… Towards the end of the song, in an attempt to condense DC Talk’s 3 vocal parts of Toby Mac and Tait singing “I hope we’ll aaaaaall beeee reaaaaa-dy” and K-Max singing “you’ve been left behiiiiind” into our two voices, somehow we ended up singing “I hope we’ll all beeee left beeeee-hiiiind…”
Watching this video was a deja vu moment for me . I was leading worship at a 700(+) seat Baptist church in Houston, TX. The exact same scenario happened where I had gotten to the last word of the slide and was anticipating the first word of the next slide. Well, I dropped the "F" bomb when my brain mixed up the words!!! My eyes got big as plates and so did a few other folks in the congregation. I didn't want to bring light or give any weight to this horrible mistake, and it was never discussed, thank God!
Oh no, just checked our song list for Sunday and this is the service opener. Hoping I can hold it together and not corpse up now! 😅 we've all been there brother.
I was leading worship on a retreat and was asked to sing a chant in Latin...I got to verse 2 and couldn't figure out how the words were pronounced so my leader steps in to help 2 measures behind me. Still to this day it is the most embarrassing thing i have ever done. Another embossing band moment we had was when my worship leader gose to announce the opening song instead of saying the title he almost said "clean up on isle...stops our opening song will be" We were all trying so hard not to laugh.
Years ago we had a special guest come up and do this upside down painting thing during one of our songs at a pretty decent sized church. When the big reveal came, in case you don’t know who it was, he painted the name of our savior underneath, “Jeses.”
In a sermon I preached I showed a clip from a movie which was a conversation between a soldier and his commanding officer ... I neglected to watch the clip all the way to the end and right at the very end of the scene the senior officer tells the soldier to ...."F&@K off ...." ..... OOOOPS!!! .... there were many laughs and I even used it as an example in my next sermon! ... Love real stories of real people doing ministry!
I've had tons of embarrassing keyboard failures. Without fail parts and lead lines that went perfectly at home and at the pre-service rehearsals will be completely jacked up during the actual service(s). Most recently the piano opening to High Praise by Maverick City. Perfect at rehearsal but totally blanked during the service where we were introducing it for the first time. I think my most embarrassing moment by far though would be back on January 2nd of this year. I hadn't led vocally for several months, and due to a mass COVID infection from a youth event, I was the emergency Worship leader with a reduced band. Messed up a couple of entrances but nothing that was really noticeable except to me or someone who really knew the songs. Got through most of the set reasonably unscathed. Cue the final song...its an easy one: Build My Life. I figured everything will go great....and musically it did. However, during part of the song, I was raising my hand and probably going to point toward heaven. The hand didn't fully comply and I accidentally flashed the good old metal devil horns. Ah!! fun times.
I have met Tim Hughes a few times and his parents still live in my hometown so I’ll try get a message to him Brian! I once shouted down the wrong mic (we had an MD mic and my lead vocal mic) that “ my G string had snapped!” 😜😂🤦 I’ve never heard the end of it! I was trying to get the sound guy to run up a spare string to me but the whole church offered to run one up to me so at least there was a positive outcome! God has a good sense of humour Brian so I think you’re in good company and who knows you might have convinced a few people to dedicate their lives to God that day as they realised Christian’s are not a bunch of freaks we are real people and we know how to do real talk!
Haha. Can’t top that one, but one Sunday I was starting How Great Is Our God on acoustic, and for some reason that will never be clear to me, I launched it in a 6/8 feel instead of 4/4, and it took me until the first chorus to realize why it didn’t feel right. At that point I had to just own it, and I made it through, but the rest of the band was not happy with me 🤨.
As just part of the worship team at our church, I was asked to choose a song. I wanted to say the Gaither gospel song on a highway to heaven. Instead I asked everyone to song the ACDC on a highway to hell. I still get told about it.
Our W/L was leading us in the Kathryn Scott song, “Search Me, Know Me,” when the confidence monitor failed near the end of the song. As we’ve all become so dependent on lyrics projection and therefore don’t memorize them well, he started camping over one particular line from the chorus: “Cover my nakedness…Lord, cover my nakedness.” This went on for somewhere between 30 seconds and (what felt like) 3 hours.
NO! Man that stinks. for real. My worst one was during a sermon. I was reading from Malachi about bringing all the tithes into the "storehouses" - but for some reasons (and I can't remember why) I got slightly tongue-tied and said "whor*houses" (obviously the * is an "e"). It took a few minutes to recover from that one.
I saw a worship fail with the song „God of revival“ where „why should my heart fear, what you defeated“ became „why should my fart hear, …“ pretty hilarious stuff 😂
I just listened to the Rend Collective podcast where they talked about embarrassing things said in church. During a baby dedication the pastor prayed for a creative mind and “pianist fingers” and with the Northern Irish accent it sounded like something else 😂
I got invited to play this very large church last week (biggest crowd) I’ve ever played for), during the second service my in ears was muted, so I couldn’t hear anything! Had to take my in-ears out to only barely hear myself in the room😩 a case for floor monitors as a back up! It was very embarrassing because some of the songs I started and very much relied on a click track. I just didn’t play those parts and played big rhythm chords. To my surprise they asked me back. I guess cause I acted like nothing was wrong and continued on. I was dying on the inside
This has helped me so much. I almost quit altogether. I'm not trained I'm music, I didn't go to school for this. I am just a chick who took choir in shool.(in the 90s) who has been put into a position I wasn't ready for. God's timing is like that sometimes. So I started 'leading' the congregation in song out of the hymnal... and while they were singing the song I had called out to them, and that the piano player was playing...I was misreading the words to the song on the other page, horribly off tempo and key.. it was mortifying! But if even trained and practiced worship leaders make mistakes like the ones in these comments, I feel like just part of the crew now lol
Having no in ear monitors and relying through the wedge monitors, I sang the verse way ahead of time when it was a free worship time and the band was confused 🤣
"God of Revival" is that song for me. In the middle of a college campus; instead of "so why should my heart fear", I sang "why should my farts hear"...
I was singing a duet with a guest at a coffee shop. Song was "Summertime" by Gershwin. We got to the end of the first line, "... and the living is easy." Next line "Fish are..." I thought it was "Fish are hopping" but my friend sang the right words, "Fish are Jumping". I realized MY mistake and changed from "hopping" to "jumping" mid -word... But what came out was "Fish are HUMPING!!" 😂 We both died laughing and could NOT finish the song!!! 😂
I was asked to play the song entitled “Goodness of God” at a funeral. During the song I felt something biting me on both of my legs, quickly moving towards my belt line. I finished the song, only to learn I was standing in an ant bed. Right in front of the mourning family I began beating my legs in the hope that I wouldn’t have to remove my pants.
We’ve had a few times where we have changed the key of a song in rehearsal and then have gone out for the service and half of the band started in the wrong key. One time I had a wired pack for my IEM’s instead of a wireless and stepped on the cable and unhooked it. Unfortunately, I was playing lead and starting that song, which ended up way off between realizing what had happened and trying to keep it together… I’m guessing I had a panicked look on my face because the drummer started playing the high hat in time and once the band came in, I pulled my ears out to finish the song… maybe the most awkward was when I had a battery go dead in an active pickup guitar in the middle of a song and had to swap guitars during the second verse where there wasn’t much lead stuff happening…
The best stories are true stories. Throughly enjoyed this! Also, the background scene and the background music was great! Jesus was #1 in a #2 business that Sunday!
I was once preaching about feeling like a loser and told a story of dropping the game winning touchdown pass while I was in high school. I TRIED to say "I faked the guy out" but the wrong vowel came out of my mouth in the word "faked."
"I will never sing this song again." Procedds to sing it for this video the next breath. LOL! If we can't laugh at ourselves there is a problem. Our Sunday morning livestreams are when I make the mistakes on bass, but I nail it every Sunday evening. Or last year's Christmas carol event for the town, I come into one song with this long sustain note on bass, wrong song, wrong key. Had to own it and repeat the mistake a few bars later, because, you know, I meant to play that!
my Dad was a pastor, and during one sermon, he was meaning to say organism, but instead said orgasm, and didn't realize it. Of course, all the teens were cracking up, my mom was steaming, and when we confronted him after church, he about passed out.. He was so embarrassed.
Years back, not too long before our Sunday morning service started, our Pastor asked us to add an old hymn to do during communion. He wanted us to sing the first verse then do the next 2 verses instrumental. I was on keyboard that morning and felt a mild bit panicky because I did not know the hymn at all, nor do I play "hymn style". We ran through it once quickly and it was just a case of padding all those chords (that change on nearly every word). So come the part in the service... first verse goes fine. Move onto the instrumental where no words are guiding me as to where we are in the 58 chord changes and OF COURSE I glance up and lose my place. The keyboard is the main instrument in this and I can't just fall out. So i pick a chord and just start playing from there. I have no clue of the whens and wheres I have to change chords. I'm just padding each chord one after the other while the band members are all sort of looking to me like "what are you doing???". I soldiered on through the trainwreck. I was mortified. The worst part was...my Doctor (with a wicked sense of humour and rags me at every opportunity he gets), who I may add is tone deaf and only Milli Vanilli's his way through worship asked me afterwards...."So what happened there?" with an evil grin. He never let me forget it.
I can attest that this is completely true! 🙋🏻♀️ I didn’t catch it when it happened either but couldn’t stop laughing when you sent us the clip from the eval video later that week! 😂
Lol! I just had an embarrassing worship fail. I was leading music for our church's Women's Bible Study this morning and all went well. Afterward, I went to use the restroom. As I walked past the mirror, I noticed that my fly was all the way down. This was not a subltle one where the denim is kind of overlapping the zipper. It was very obviously wide open. I was leading worship by myself, so there's no one else to look at. I'm pretty sure at least a handful of those 50 ladies had to notice.
During the intro to one of the songs I invited everyone to join us in singing. In my head I simultaneously thought "Sing with me everybody" and was thinking about my young son, whom I frequently call my "buddy". So, obviously, I blurted out "Sing with me buddies!"
One hundred percent understand that it happened. That is one thing I can truly have a claim to fame for - I do not use foul language. However, one time 30 years ago, I was trying to say something. Had an odd perception delay, and tried to say something else instead. Well, when you combined them the way my brain shut down and then restarted the verbage....yep. Same type of thing. It's truly a funny thing, because it's not the intended speech. So no harm, no foul!
I saw the title of this video and actually didn't watch it the first time it popped up because I thought I was going to cringe really bad for you. Turned out to be downright hilarious.
The most awkward moment I have experienced while leading a worship was in April 2022. Everything was online in HK because of covid-19. I was sharing the Amazing Grace Worship song You Are With Me (陪我度過) on the zoom meeting, but the sound went off at the 2:15 mark. I then brought the video forward again, and it went off at the 2:15 mark again. This was absolutely awkward. However I got used to that and shared more (I was given a longer intermission because of this fail haha) This didn't stop that hymn from becoming my favorite hymn of 2Q2022. I used that hymn to share my joy once I got through a very difficult assignment with a respectable 90%.
i was playing lead electric guitar at my youth group and at the very end i dropped my pick. i had an outro riff to do yet so i tried to finger pick it 💀💀 that didn’t work so i just stopped and pretended none of that happened and just vibed till the end of the song another time i was leading worship for my schools graduation and when worship ended we all set down our guitars, mics etc. i didn’t have a stand for my electric so i just set it against the stage and it fell really loudly. i said “FRICK” under my breath but it turned out to be really loud as well and i asked my friends after if they heard that and they said they did. what made it worse was that my crush was on the worship team 💀💀
In the song “Glorious Day” there’s a line that’s supposed to say “My sin was heavy.” Well I know a guy who slipped up and accidentally said “My chin was heavy”
It wasn’t while leading worship, but I was leading youth group one night and as a ga,e we played mad libs on my phone. This was when iPhones first came out and the kids were excited to play. I couldn’t see how the suggested words went in the story until I read it at the end. I limited the kids to saying things that were in the youth room. The story ended up being about the 3 little pigs and I read aloud without hesitation “I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your pole down”. The kids died of laughter and I turned bright red. That was the last we heard of mad libs that day.
I cant top that but I was playing at an outdoor Christian festival and I was playing electric guitar, I cant remember the song but I was suppose to fade in slowly using my wah pedal set to volume, it happen to be set to wah so at a quiet part of the song about to get loud you hear WAH with distortion at full volume!!! I could see everyone's eyes all look at me, there was about 300 people at the stage area and a few hundred more just walking around. I also got a weird look from everyone in the band and they all laughed. I was so funny and embarrassing at the same time.
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I am number one. Brian is clearly number two 👀 🙃
Love to hear about that to haha
You, sir, just won the internet for the day.
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Oof
years ago at my church the guy announcing the songs was supposed to announce "Turn To Me" as our communion song, and he said "Our Communion song will be "Turn me on." Poor guy left the church and no one ever saw him again....
When I first started leading I was a youth. We were doing Days of Elijah (back in the day) and I intro’d the bridge by shouting, “There’s no God!” For the youngsters reading this, the first line of the bridge is “There’s no God like Jehovah…”
I was praying before going into “give us clean hands” and wanted to convey that we as a congregation wanted to lay down our idols, and much like in the temple with Dagon, asked God to “crush” and “destroy” or idols. But I didn’t say “idols.” I had just learned in my Old Testament class how to properly say the name “Ba’al.” But I don’t say it that way. Instead I said “Ball.” And proceeded to pray, Lord, we lay our “Ba’als” at your feet and ask that you would crush and destroy our “Ba’als….”
I was so embarrassed lol
Of all the comments posted here I think this one takes the big prize!!! Just rolling on the floor laughing!!! 😂😂😂
This one definitely takes the prize. LOL
I guess it could have been worse, wait a minute maybe not. LOL I'm sorry that happened to you but that was really funny.
I know if it was me I would have been crushed
I'm glad I didn't scroll past this one.
@@sgmstudios6346 haha yeah at the time I was so embarrassed. Now it’s one of my favorite stories to tell.
@@joeamado2704 :) thanks!
Not me, but an old pastor of mine told me the story of his previous worship leader who flipped the consonants in Indescribable so that “heavenly storehouses” became “steavenly whorehouses”. I imagine that one was pretty rough
A friend of mine played me a recording once of him leading worship where he told the congregation, "stand and worship with us".....only the word "with" accidentally got missed, LOL!
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I’ve done that 😂
Might of been on purpose.. LOL
IDK man, my pastor once introduced me as a Minstrel. I started a song and had guitar issues. Told the church I was having minstrel problems.....they all heard men...not min.... its recorded online forever......
I just became the Contemporary Worship Leader at my church this past November. My predecessor is an amazing leader, awesome musician, and all around great guy. It was never, and still isn't my goal to "replace" him, but I feel there is still a certain degree of pressure on me to be adequate in the position. I got so nervous leading up to the service that I lost most of my singing voice during the sound check before the service. On top of that, as the countdown video was coming to an end, my hands were shaking so much that I dropped my guitar pick on the stage. We livestream our service on RUclips, and as the countdown reached 0:00 you can see the lights come up and the camera cuts live to the stage with me bent over trying with every shaking fiber of my being to get my guitar pick up off the stage floor where it seemed to have just been glued with an industrial strength epoxy. After what seemed like an eternity, filled with the deafening sound of silence and anticipation, I was able to pry the 50 cent piece of plastic off the floor, and we were able to begin the service.
At the end of the day, my other band members took the load off me vocally, and despite my issues, the worship service went on, and God was praised. After the service came the encouraging remarks from my peers which were all pretty close to "well at least it can only get better from here!" I was reminded from this experience that God is bigger than me and whatever obstacles I may be facing. God is faithful, he comes through when we need Him. To God be the Glory!
Another more recent moment: We usually have a "Passing the Peace" time during the service. The lead pastor forgot to inform everyone that was supposed to happen and returned to his seat. I knew what was supposed to be happening, so I went up to the microphone and asked everyone to stand and pass the Peace of Christ. The only problem was, I said it in such a frantic rush it came out as, "pass the PIZZA CRUST!"
I was leading How Deep the Father's Love For Us, the last verse starts with "I will not boast in anything" and then (with the same melody) says "But I will boast in Jesus Christ"
On the repeat of that last verse... the big one... everyone is really into it... and I belt out full voice: "I will not boast in Jesus Christ!"
The laughter from the congregation killed the mood pretty quickly...
I’ve actually done this too!!!!! Haha just gotta laugh it off
I announced at the end of a song, “I just broke my G string.” A little embarrassed but kept going.
I love your channel fellas and the fact that you’re able to “talk” about this makes me love it even more. The vulnerability, the candidness, I mean in the end we’re all fallible and human.
Oh, I can sympathize, Brian! I'm an airline pilot, and on my second day in a plane with passengers my training captain turned to me and told me to do the arrival PA announcement. Now, I've been concentrating on learning flying stuff, so I haven't given a lot of thought to such things. I picked up the mic, and what I MEANT to say was, "we are about to turn on the seat belt sign, so if you need to get up and stretch your legs, now's the time." But what I ACTUALLY said was, "we are about to turn on the seat belt sign, so if you need to get up and SPREAD your legs, now's the time."
Like you, I went wide-eyed and looked at my captain. I asked, "Did you hear that?" Him: "No, why?" Me: Good.
I stayed in the cockpit until everyone was off the plane.
I remember in 2014, I had just graduated high school. I was leading at my local congregation, and I was singing the song “Made to Worship” by Chris Tomlin. The chorus goes like this:
“You and I were made to worship, you and I are called to love. You and I are forgiven and free. You and I embrace surrender, you and I choose to believe, then you and I will see who we were meant to be”.
So, a girl, that I had a tiny crush on at the time, walks into our service like a minute late (which should have been a red flag 😉 lol). Anyway, I made eye contact with her and I was just finishing the first chorus. I accidentally sang “then you and I will see *THAT* we were meant to be” 😂
I think my pastor was the only one who noticed, but I still didn’t talk to that girl for like a month afterward.. Me and this pastor still laugh about this to this day 😂
This wasn't my own moment, but I was on stage when it happened. A few years back, we had an individual leading the song "Yes and Amen", which starts off one of the verses with "Father of kindness, you have poured out grace"... For whatever reason, the vocalist had a momentary lapse and instead sang "Father of darkness...."
We still pick on them for that little gem to this day...
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oh my word this is gold 😂
my most embarrassing moment was while we were on a little worship tour in college. We had switched up the setlist a couple times leading up to getting on stage. When we went to transition to song 2 and I heard the drummer and guitar player clicking off and rolling into the intro which was WAYYYY too slow for what song I thought we were playing (they were right, I was wrong). So i look at my drummer in a panic telling him to cut it, half way through the intro they stop because I had missed my place to come in completely and the whole team was kinda like "the heck are you doing?". I nervously come up the mic in the dead silence and say "..ha...ha... we just learned this song recently haha.. we're gunna start it over".
They restart the song and then I start playing the wrong chords, in all the anxiety I was totally blanking. I awkwardly walk across the stage to the keyboard player to peak at her chord sheet and then try to pick everything back up. Our team manager literally through his hands up and walked out in the midst of all this. IT WAS AWKWARDDD
I regret reading this 😭 thanks ima practice harder now
I have DEFINITELY sang “Oh Crapy Day!” After making the jokes before service.
Brain Fart...totally said "brain fart" on stage fifteen years ago. I had recently started leading worship for a larger congregation and was new to having a click run throughout the set--speaking with a click was so disorienting. The service was timed for broadcast, so everything was tightly scheduled. Finished praying and went to make an announcement. I started speaking and completely blanked on what I was supposed to say. Staring off into space, what I did say was, "brain fart". There was a pause that felt like a lifetime--like an out of body experience. Omnisphere still dishing out the D pad. I looked to the senior on the front row - his eyes like dinner plates - and said, "ahhh, ______, can you help me out?" He said, "Luke...did you just say 'brain fart'?". "...yes, I, ahhh...well, I, you know, I...let's come back to the announcement later". After the service, the senior just looked at me, with a grin, and said "you realize you just said 'fart' in front of thousands of people?". Praise the Lord, that recording was deleted. For years afterwards, it became a joke in staff meetings. When someone mentioned stumbling over words the previous Sunday, our senior would encourage them with, "well, at least you didn't say brain fart". I suppose the occasional joke at my expense made me feel better about it. Sure was embarrassing at the time, though. I still hang my head a bit whenever I think about that.
I was leading worship for our leadership team and we were singing Days of Elijah. We were coming up to the bridge, and I was planning on shouting out the entire line of the bridge which is, "There is no God like Jehovah." But I was a little bit delayed and all I had time for was the first half. So I just shouted out for everyone to hear, "There is no God!" Everybody just completely lost it and started laughing. Worship over.
It wasn’t really a fail, but our worship team was going to start the set with “Beautiful One “ by Tim Hughes. Right before we went on, our bass player said, we should say that we dedicate this song to Juan. I laughed the whole way through the first song because all I could hear in my head was “beautiful Juan” 😂
I was playing a friends favorite worship song at her funeral and my guitar strap came off in the middle of the song. Her husband came up to me later and said "I know she got a kick out of that from heaven". Ever since then I run strap locks on everything.
“Take out your Peter and turn to second bible”. Best one I’ve ever heard
Lol! I can’t!
Oh my Lord that's a tough one. LOL
Actual tears, thanks for that one 😂
This is so good and still laughing,..thanks for being honest and transparent and stuff happen
the most embarrassing mistake i’ve ever done worshiping in my church: forget 2 entire songs in my guitar debut my worship leader look at me and i felt his pain in his eyes
A few years ago I was leading worship for a youth group singing the song “Forever Reign”, when I get to “the richness of your love…” I think about a few lines ahead which starts with “nothing”, so I ended up singing “The richness of your love will NEVER be enough…”.
I had to stop mid song and tell the kids how absolutely incorrect that was and restarted the song out of embarrassment 😂 good times.
My most embarrassing moment singing was at a funeral. I was asked to come & sing by our church, they had also asked the lead Praise & Worship guitarist to accompany me. When we get to the funeral it was in a pretty small setting. We were in the front, Mr Bob and his guitar were to my right and we were both going to sing into one microphone between us. I took the first verse of the old Hymn, He Touched Me.
I began, “Shackled by a heavy burden, neath the load of sin and shame, then the hand of Jesus touched me”……..when I got to that part of the song, I and the guitar player leaned in & the end, neck of his guitar hit me right in my right breast 😳. Then the chorus….”He touched me, Oh yes, He touched me……and Oh the joy that floods my soul”…..
Mr Bob, never cracked a smile, but it was all I could do to not turn red and laugh at a funeral….🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That’s hilarious … best (or worst) worship fail at my church was a Sunday where we were doing a song called “keep on singing” and when the lyrics came up on the screen is said “keep on sinning” … whoops 😅
Ah. I see you spent all your cringe points on 1 event. Whereas I have been slowly and methodically spreading mine out over the course of my entire worship leading career.
I'm literally in tears laughing at your comment! I feel the same🤣🤣
@@stevenmoss4034 Lord help us 😔🙏
My worst was probably singing “Jesus Paid it All,” the big payoff in the last verse should be:
And when, before the throne,
I stand in Him complete,
"Jesus died my soul to save,"
My lips shall still repeat.
Instead, I sang:
"Jesus died my soul to save,"
My sin shall still repeat.
I had no idea until after the set and people came up to me asking, “did you realize you sang...?”
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I actually had a very similar situation happen to me about 7 years ago while leading worship on a Sunday. I was praying during a song transition and was trying to say something to the extent of “Thank you Lord that you’ve taken all of our SIN and SHAME….”. But I accidentally put the SH from Sham on the front of sin and stopped abruptly before I got the the N. So what I actually said was “Thank you Lord that you’ve taken all of our $!&@💩“
Tragic!
Reminds me of Brian Johnson from Bethel singing "Every craptive free..." in a spontaneous part of a song one time.
lol 😂
This was a long time ago when I was leading youth worship, but we were doing the song Be Glorified by Chris Tomlin, and the chorus says "You set my feet to dancing, You set my heart on fire..." and I accidently sang "You set my fart on fire...." You can imagine with youth that it was impossible to continue the rest of the service.
OH MY GOSH!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Lol, to me what makes it funnier is how nobody else on stage looks like they noticed. I'm one of those worship leaders who always turns my head and smiles whenever my teammates make a mistake, but I can imagine how my face would look if I heard that from the other musicians.
It was my turn for announcements. What I meant to say was, “We’re selling shirts that say ‘We Love our City’” What I actually said was “We have shirts that say “We Love Our Titties.” It happened, and no one present will ever forget. Mostly because a staff member took the recording of that moment and turned it into his ringtone.
"Mostly because a staff member took the recording of that moment and turned it into his ringtone." Exactly what I would do, too. Fantastic :-)
I'm so sorry that happened to you but good Lord that's hilarious
Hahahahaha I love that YOU TOO are human my friend. Thanks for sharing 😅😅😅
All of these stories are great! I would like to share mine as well.
Ok, so one time my worship team and I were playing the song “Days of Elijah”, you know the one where the Bridge goes “There’s no God like Jehovah.” Well, you know how sometimes worship leaders say a little part of the next lyric we sing before everyone sings that part. Well, as a lead up to everyone singing the bridge of “there’s no God like Jehovah” I say as loud as I can (because I’m really enjoying the song so far…) “THERE IS NO GOD!!!!”
I immediately looked over at my pianist in horror of what I just said, and she gave me this dead eyed look like I just sacrificed a lamb on our alter. Oh man, my band definitely made fun of me for awhile after that.
So my worst fail so far back in 2014 due to the song "We Are Hungry." For a couple months prior to this day, the guitarists who were scheduled to play EG1 would make little mistakes on the big opening guitar riff. When I got scheduled for EG1 - and that song was on the set, I made it an internal mission to not mess it up, so the week prior I just ran the intro over and over and over and could play it without looking, pausing, i mean just nailed it. We got to rehearsal Sunday am, and again, I nailed it like a carpenter every single time. Now, come first service, our pre-roll music stops, and the drums count me in. Again I nailed it "We Are Hungry" intro. The only problem is that "We Are Hungry' was and was always the second song in the set. I was supposed to start the "Your Love Never Fails" guitar chords. Soooo. I ran through the intro, played a descending scale, and started into "YLNF."
That...is...awesome. My most embarrassing moment was when we had someone come out to the stage baptism tank, and get dunked. Hooray, clap, the usual. Then in my ears I heard, "One, two, intro, two three four..." so I immediately launched into the intro guitar lick of "So Will I". I played the whole first bar loud and proud before someone walked up to me and said something. I look over and the next person to be baptized and the pastor are just staring at me, waiting patiently. SOMEONE had started the track when they shouldn't have, not my fault! If I hadn't have gone into autopilot, I could have missed the start of the song (if it was timed correctly). Oh well, wasn't really that bad.
We had a high schooler leading us for his first time once and when he messed up a lyric, he mumbled, "oh sh--!" Into the mic... Only a few people heard it and I couldn't stop laughing...
I am still part of our worship team at church but 8 or 9 years ago from time to time I’d lead vocally and play guitar on a Wednesday night. One of those times I turned to signal to the drummer, bc Wednesday night team didn’t use in ears at the time, and when I turned back around I hit the mic stand with my guitar and had to stop playing to catch it and the rest of the band stopped with me… I came up with something inspirational to say and went into The Stand bc it was comfortable lol. I was so embarrassed! Lol
Lord forgive me but I'm definitely gonna need to see the unedited version of this 🤣
My father would have to be of a similar level. My father is a pastor and he was in the middle of a very passionate subject. In a bundle of emotions he was discussing the forgiveness of Christ. He meant to say “once forgiven, God doesn’t expect us to keep digging at what’s in our past” BUT instead says “once forgiven, God doesn’t expect us to keep digging at what’s in our behind” lol he got about 2 words out afterward and froze…my mom (the pastors wife) starts horse laughing the whole congregation just lost it. Lol dad was a champ
"Those few sure are crappy" 😂😂😂 and in that moment you knew you messed up big time.
We have our announcements & offering between our fast and slow songs. One Sunday we had a guest speaker go to the restroom during offering. I, as the music and media person, went to make sure the sermon bumper was cued up. The guests mic was not muted mic and during offering everyone in the sanctuary heard the flush. It just so happened that I didn’t wear a belt that day and came back on stage fixing my pants. Whoops🤷♂️
Please send me unedited video! Lol! Whatever you use for video equipment is absolutely amazing
Loved that Nick put in an actual tape!
Leading “It is So” by elevation a few years back, i get to the bridge where it says “your word is settled in heaven”
Somehow I sing “yogurt is settled in heaven”. .. I still stand by the statement.
There’s been much worse that I’ve managed to embarrass myself with but that was my favorite. Just like yogurt. Love it.
I started leading worship at a small church with a congregation of about 80 to 100 people. About two years into my service we had a 125th church anniversary celebration and invited a large number of past members, former pastors and other people who were significant to the church’s legacy. We started the day with our regular Sunday service, then had a big dinner for all the attendees followed by a celebration service. I thought I’d connect with the audience by talking about what a wonderful dinner we had all enjoyed, then started to lose my train of thought. I joked that I probably shouldn’t have eaten so much (never a good idea when you are about to sing) and the words came out something like “I hope I don’t have any unwanted gases going into this microphone.....”!!!! 😱😖🤦♀️ I meant that I hoped I wouldn’t burp, but it sounded more like I hoped I wouldn’t fart. I so wanted to explain myself, but I decided it was better to move on as quickly as possible. 12 years later, I’m still not that great at speaking off the cuff, but I’ve learned to either prepare better or just not say anything. 😬
About 25 years ago at youth camp, a friend and I were covering DC Talk’s cover of “I Wish We’d All Been Ready”… Towards the end of the song, in an attempt to condense DC Talk’s 3 vocal parts of Toby Mac and Tait singing “I hope we’ll aaaaaall beeee reaaaaa-dy” and K-Max singing “you’ve been left behiiiiind” into our two voices, somehow we ended up singing “I hope we’ll all beeee left beeeee-hiiiind…”
One of our worship leader said to the congregation "We just close our eyes and together we sing, 'Open the eyes of my heart, Lord'"
I literally just spit out *not sh*t out* my chipotle burrito on my computer from laughing! LOLOLOL
Watching this video was a deja vu moment for me . I was leading worship at a 700(+) seat Baptist church in Houston, TX. The exact same scenario happened where I had gotten to the last word of the slide and was anticipating the first word of the next slide. Well, I dropped the "F" bomb when my brain mixed up the words!!! My eyes got big as plates and so did a few other folks in the congregation. I didn't want to bring light or give any weight to this horrible mistake, and it was never discussed, thank God!
Oh no, just checked our song list for Sunday and this is the service opener. Hoping I can hold it together and not corpse up now! 😅 we've all been there brother.
I was leading worship on a retreat and was asked to sing a chant in Latin...I got to verse 2 and couldn't figure out how the words were pronounced so my leader steps in to help 2 measures behind me. Still to this day it is the most embarrassing thing i have ever done. Another embossing band moment we had was when my worship leader gose to announce the opening song instead of saying the title he almost said "clean up on isle...stops our opening song will be" We were all trying so hard not to laugh.
Kinda like “my fart will sing, no other name, Jesus Jesus”
Years ago we had a special guest come up and do this upside down painting thing during one of our songs at a pretty decent sized church. When the big reveal came, in case you don’t know who it was, he painted the name of our savior underneath, “Jeses.”
In a sermon I preached I showed a clip from a movie which was a conversation between a soldier and his commanding officer ... I neglected to watch the clip all the way to the end and right at the very end of the scene the senior officer tells the soldier to ...."F&@K off ...." ..... OOOOPS!!! .... there were many laughs and I even used it as an example in my next sermon! ...
Love real stories of real people doing ministry!
I've had tons of embarrassing keyboard failures. Without fail parts and lead lines that went perfectly at home and at the pre-service rehearsals will be completely jacked up during the actual service(s). Most recently the piano opening to High Praise by Maverick City. Perfect at rehearsal but totally blanked during the service where we were introducing it for the first time. I think my most embarrassing moment by far though would be back on January 2nd of this year. I hadn't led vocally for several months, and due to a mass COVID infection from a youth event, I was the emergency Worship leader with a reduced band. Messed up a couple of entrances but nothing that was really noticeable except to me or someone who really knew the songs. Got through most of the set reasonably unscathed. Cue the final song...its an easy one: Build My Life. I figured everything will go great....and musically it did. However, during part of the song, I was raising my hand and probably going to point toward heaven. The hand didn't fully comply and I accidentally flashed the good old metal devil horns. Ah!! fun times.
I have met Tim Hughes a few times and his parents still live in my hometown so I’ll try get a message to him Brian! I once shouted down the wrong mic (we had an MD mic and my lead vocal mic) that “ my G string had snapped!” 😜😂🤦 I’ve never heard the end of it! I was trying to get the sound guy to run up a spare string to me but the whole church offered to run one up to me so at least there was a positive outcome! God has a good sense of humour Brian so I think you’re in good company and who knows you might have convinced a few people to dedicate their lives to God that day as they realised Christian’s are not a bunch of freaks we are real people and we know how to do real talk!
Haha. Can’t top that one, but one Sunday I was starting How Great Is Our God on acoustic, and for some reason that will never be clear to me, I launched it in a 6/8 feel instead of 4/4, and it took me until the first chorus to realize why it didn’t feel right. At that point I had to just own it, and I made it through, but the rest of the band was not happy with me 🤨.
I once did that exact same thing!
I played "In the Secret" in 6/8 time once by accident. It was so awful!
As just part of the worship team at our church, I was asked to choose a song. I wanted to say the Gaither gospel song on a highway to heaven. Instead I asked everyone to song the ACDC on a highway to hell. I still get told about it.
Our W/L was leading us in the Kathryn Scott song, “Search Me, Know Me,” when the confidence monitor failed near the end of the song. As we’ve all become so dependent on lyrics projection and therefore don’t memorize them well, he started camping over one particular line from the chorus: “Cover my nakedness…Lord, cover my nakedness.” This went on for somewhere between 30 seconds and (what felt like) 3 hours.
NO! Man that stinks. for real. My worst one was during a sermon. I was reading from Malachi about bringing all the tithes into the "storehouses" - but for some reasons (and I can't remember why) I got slightly tongue-tied and said "whor*houses" (obviously the * is an "e"). It took a few minutes to recover from that one.
I saw a worship fail with the song „God of revival“ where „why should my heart fear, what you defeated“ became „why should my fart hear, …“ pretty hilarious stuff 😂
I just listened to the Rend Collective podcast where they talked about embarrassing things said in church. During a baby dedication the pastor prayed for a creative mind and “pianist fingers” and with the Northern Irish accent it sounded like something else 😂
I got invited to play this very large church last week (biggest crowd) I’ve ever played for), during the second service my in ears was muted, so I couldn’t hear anything! Had to take my in-ears out to only barely hear myself in the room😩 a case for floor monitors as a back up! It was very embarrassing because some of the songs I started and very much relied on a click track. I just didn’t play those parts and played big rhythm chords. To my surprise they asked me back. I guess cause I acted like nothing was wrong and continued on. I was dying on the inside
My first time doing lead guitar and I butchered the overcome intro. Even folks who can't hear well knew I screwed that up.
This has helped me so much. I almost quit altogether. I'm not trained I'm music, I didn't go to school for this. I am just a chick who took choir in shool.(in the 90s) who has been put into a position I wasn't ready for. God's timing is like that sometimes. So I started 'leading' the congregation in song out of the hymnal... and while they were singing the song I had called out to them, and that the piano player was playing...I was misreading the words to the song on the other page, horribly off tempo and key.. it was mortifying! But if even trained and practiced worship leaders make mistakes like the ones in these comments, I feel like just part of the crew now lol
I most definitely would like to hear the unedited version! I’ve done the same thing !! Hahaha 🤣
Having no in ear monitors and relying through the wedge monitors, I sang the verse way ahead of time when it was a free worship time and the band was confused 🤣
"God of Revival" is that song for me. In the middle of a college campus; instead of "so why should my heart fear", I sang "why should my farts hear"...
Once, I was singing Great Are You Lord. The line was supposed to be "You bring light to the darkness". But I sang "You bring light to the Dorkness".
I was singing a duet with a guest at a coffee shop. Song was "Summertime" by Gershwin. We got to the end of the first line, "... and the living is easy." Next line "Fish are..." I thought it was "Fish are hopping" but my friend sang the right words, "Fish are Jumping". I realized MY mistake and changed from "hopping" to "jumping" mid -word... But what came out was "Fish are HUMPING!!" 😂 We both died laughing and could NOT finish the song!!! 😂
I was asked to play the song entitled “Goodness of God” at a funeral. During the song I felt something biting me on both of my legs, quickly moving towards my belt line. I finished the song, only to learn I was standing in an ant bed. Right in front of the mourning family I began beating my legs in the hope that I wouldn’t have to remove my pants.
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I played that song at church last night but there was no ants lol
Hahaha, this is great! Many mistakes made as a worship leader and thankfully I too can laugh at them 🤣
We’ve had a few times where we have changed the key of a song in rehearsal and then have gone out for the service and half of the band started in the wrong key. One time I had a wired pack for my IEM’s instead of a wireless and stepped on the cable and unhooked it. Unfortunately, I was playing lead and starting that song, which ended up way off between realizing what had happened and trying to keep it together… I’m guessing I had a panicked look on my face because the drummer started playing the high hat in time and once the band came in, I pulled my ears out to finish the song… maybe the most awkward was when I had a battery go dead in an active pickup guitar in the middle of a song and had to swap guitars during the second verse where there wasn’t much lead stuff happening…
The best stories are true stories. Throughly enjoyed this! Also, the background scene and the background music was great! Jesus was #1 in a #2 business that Sunday!
Oh man, sorry, I can't stop laughing 🤣
Don't worry, it won't happen again
OMG amazing story. Super relatable.
That's hilarious! God has His ways of keeping us humble. Remember that He works ALL THINGS together for good...
I was once preaching about feeling like a loser and told a story of dropping the game winning touchdown pass while I was in high school. I TRIED to say "I faked the guy out" but the wrong vowel came out of my mouth in the word "faked."
That's a tough one. Hopefully you read some of these other comments so you can have something to laugh about. LOL
"I will never sing this song again." Procedds to sing it for this video the next breath. LOL! If we can't laugh at ourselves there is a problem.
Our Sunday morning livestreams are when I make the mistakes on bass, but I nail it every Sunday evening.
Or last year's Christmas carol event for the town, I come into one song with this long sustain note on bass, wrong song, wrong key. Had to own it and repeat the mistake a few bars later, because, you know, I meant to play that!
my Dad was a pastor, and during one sermon, he was meaning to say organism, but instead said orgasm, and didn't realize it. Of course, all the teens were cracking up, my mom was steaming, and when we confronted him after church, he about passed out.. He was so embarrassed.
Years back, not too long before our Sunday morning service started, our Pastor asked us to add an old hymn to do during communion. He wanted us to sing the first verse then do the next 2 verses instrumental. I was on keyboard that morning and felt a mild bit panicky because I did not know the hymn at all, nor do I play "hymn style". We ran through it once quickly and it was just a case of padding all those chords (that change on nearly every word). So come the part in the service... first verse goes fine. Move onto the instrumental where no words are guiding me as to where we are in the 58 chord changes and OF COURSE I glance up and lose my place. The keyboard is the main instrument in this and I can't just fall out. So i pick a chord and just start playing from there. I have no clue of the whens and wheres I have to change chords. I'm just padding each chord one after the other while the band members are all sort of looking to me like "what are you doing???". I soldiered on through the trainwreck. I was mortified. The worst part was...my Doctor (with a wicked sense of humour and rags me at every opportunity he gets), who I may add is tone deaf and only Milli Vanilli's his way through worship asked me afterwards...."So what happened there?" with an evil grin. He never let me forget it.
😂😂😂 my god I can’t stop laughing 😂
I can attest that this is completely true! 🙋🏻♀️
I didn’t catch it when it happened either but couldn’t stop laughing when you sent us the clip from the eval video later that week! 😂
Lol! I just had an embarrassing worship fail. I was leading music for our church's Women's Bible Study this morning and all went well. Afterward, I went to use the restroom. As I walked past the mirror, I noticed that my fly was all the way down. This was not a subltle one where the denim is kind of overlapping the zipper. It was very obviously wide open. I was leading worship by myself, so there's no one else to look at. I'm pretty sure at least a handful of those 50 ladies had to notice.
During the intro to one of the songs I invited everyone to join us in singing. In my head I simultaneously thought "Sing with me everybody" and was thinking about my young son, whom I frequently call my "buddy". So, obviously, I blurted out "Sing with me buddies!"
One hundred percent understand that it happened.
That is one thing I can truly have a claim to fame for - I do not use foul language.
However, one time 30 years ago, I was trying to say something. Had an odd perception delay, and tried to say something else instead. Well, when you combined them the way my brain shut down and then restarted the verbage....yep. Same type of thing.
It's truly a funny thing, because it's not the intended speech. So no harm, no foul!
I saw the title of this video and actually didn't watch it the first time it popped up because I thought I was going to cringe really bad for you. Turned out to be downright hilarious.
The most awkward moment I have experienced while leading a worship was in April 2022. Everything was online in HK because of covid-19.
I was sharing the Amazing Grace Worship song You Are With Me (陪我度過) on the zoom meeting, but the sound went off at the 2:15 mark. I then brought the video forward again, and it went off at the 2:15 mark again.
This was absolutely awkward. However I got used to that and shared more (I was given a longer intermission because of this fail haha)
This didn't stop that hymn from becoming my favorite hymn of 2Q2022. I used that hymn to share my joy once I got through a very difficult assignment with a respectable 90%.
"And now it's time for Silly Songs with Brian, the part of the show where Brian comes out and sings a silly song." -Veggie tales announcer
lol! It happens to the best of us for sure! I will think of this every time I play this song from now on lol
heard a worship leader try to say he was a “closer Gaither fan” but his mic cut out and all anyone heard was “closet Gai”
😂😂😂 this comment wins
That is completely hilarious
i was playing lead electric guitar at my youth group and at the very end i dropped my pick. i had an outro riff to do yet so i tried to finger pick it 💀💀 that didn’t work so i just stopped and pretended none of that happened and just vibed till the end of the song
another time i was leading worship for my schools graduation and when worship ended we all set down our guitars, mics etc. i didn’t have a stand for my electric so i just set it against the stage and it fell really loudly. i said “FRICK” under my breath but it turned out to be really loud as well and i asked my friends after if they heard that and they said they did. what made it worse was that my crush was on the worship team 💀💀
In the song “Glorious Day” there’s a line that’s supposed to say “My sin was heavy.” Well I know a guy who slipped up and accidentally said “My chin was heavy”
It wasn’t while leading worship, but I was leading youth group one night and as a ga,e we played mad libs on my phone. This was when iPhones first came out and the kids were excited to play. I couldn’t see how the suggested words went in the story until I read it at the end. I limited the kids to saying things that were in the youth room. The story ended up being about the 3 little pigs and I read aloud without hesitation “I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your pole down”. The kids died of laughter and I turned bright red. That was the last we heard of mad libs that day.
Oh this is great!
Can confirm you are not alone in this. The worship leader in my last church did exactly the same thing. I almost died laughing.
I cant top that but I was playing at an outdoor Christian festival and I was playing electric guitar, I cant remember the song but I was suppose to fade in slowly using my wah pedal set to volume, it happen to be set to wah so at a quiet part of the song about to get loud you hear WAH with distortion at full volume!!! I could see everyone's eyes all look at me, there was about 300 people at the stage area and a few hundred more just walking around. I also got a weird look from everyone in the band and they all laughed. I was so funny and embarrassing at the same time.
My pastor once said at a funeral. Because he forgot the words "ashes to ashes dust to dust I hope this caskest doesn't rust"