The Worship-Production Divide

photo: ChurchProduction.com

“If worship and production only talk when something goes wrong,
you don’t have one team.”

A worship leader walks into rehearsal thinking about songs, arrangements and transitions. The FOH engineer is thinking about inputs, gain structure and the mix. Musicians are dialing in tones and monitor mixes. Someone else is making sure the right lyrics appear on the screen.

Everyone is preparing for the same Sunday.

But are they actually preparing together?

For Aaron Wong, Assistant Professor of Worship and Music Technology at Moody Bible Institute and Director of Moody Worship Collectives, that question gets to the heart of a challenge he has encountered throughout his years in worship ministry.

At the Church Facilities Expo in Birmingham, Alabama (September 15 - 16), Professor Wong tackled this topic. You can read his article, “On the Worship-Production Divide,” at ChurchProduction.com.