Do you know that sometimes Preachers or Pastors feel envious toward worship team?

Do you know that sometimes Preachers or Pastors feel envious toward worship team?

They feel envious, because a lot of times, the members of the church including church leaders, forget about the Sermon, almost immediately after the service, yet they remember the songs or the music during the service.

and why is that so?

Sermon, is a rather 'left-brain' activity, filled with information, which sometimes goes unaccompanied by good illustrations, colors, dynamycs (right brain stimuli), failed to get retained in the recipient's brain.

Worship Songs (note: the entire service and even outside service is Worship), on the other hand conveys a combination of right brain and left brain information. That is the word or the message (left brain), the tunes, rhythm, dynamycs (right brain) and together, they are easier to get retained in the brain. Because that is how the brain should function, using both the left brain and right brain together.

What should the Worship team does to make the entire worship service better?

The worship team should choose songs that will reinforce the message of the sermon. While our human brains may fail to retain all the information passed on by the preacher, the right song will help the congregation to remember the sermon. This will then help to transform the church, because the preached word will dwell in our hearts (read: brain), longer for us to consider, reflect and apply.

Sunday Service should not and must not be a competition between the Worship Team (Worship Ministry) and the Preacher (Word Ministry), it is ONE ministry to glorify God and both the preacher and the worship teams are the facilitators for the worship of God.