How Loud the Worship Team?

Over at Christianity Today, John Stackhouse, Jr. expresses his thoughts on the volume of worship teams in an article called, “Memo to Worship Bands.” He gives five reasons why church music teams should tone down the volume.

1. Cranking up the volume is just a cheap trick to add energy to a room.
2. When your intonation is not very good, turning it up only makes it hurt worse.
3. The speakers in most church PA systems cannot take that much energy.
4. Consider that you might be marginalizing older people.
5. Musicians—every one of them, including the singers—are accompanists to the congregation’s praise.

After saying that musicians “should be mixed loudly enough only to do their job of leading and supporting the congregation,” he ends with this.... Read more

Unfortunately only subscribers to Christianity Today now have access to John Stackhouse's article--one of the drawbacks of Christianity Today. It will make an article available for a short period of time and then limit access.