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Prayers for a Worship Team: Before Rehearsal, Before the Service and After

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  • Short prayers cover rehearsal, the moments before a service, the leader, the sound and screen team, friction, motives, the congregation, nerves, a new member, a struggling member, tiredness and the end of the service.
  • Traditional prayers include “O Lord, open thou our lips” from Morning Prayer (1928 Book of Common Prayer, p. 7), the Orthodox “O heavenly King” and the hymn “Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire.”
  • The 1888 Catholic Manual of Prayers has prayers for concord in a congregation and for humility.
  • David appointed Levite singers and players, and Chenaniah “instructed about the song, because he was skilful” (1 Chronicles 15:22); 288 trained singers are listed in 1 Chronicles 25:7.
  • Augustine wrote that he sinned “when it befalls me to be more moved with the voice than the words sung” (Confessions, Book X).

A worship team’s prayer before a service can be as short as this: “Lord, this music is for you. Tune our hearts before our instruments, keep us together, and let the people hear you more than us. Amen.” In the Bible, David appointed Levites “to be the singers with instruments of musick” (1 Chronicles 15:16). Worship teams in the Bible The Old Testament describes organized, trained musicians for worship. When David brought the ark to Jerusalem, he told the chief…

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  • Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Exodus 15:20–21; 1 Chronicles 15:16, 22; 25:7; 2 Chronicles 5:13–14; Psalm 19:14; 33:3; 51:15; 133:1; Isaiah 40:29; Amos 5:23–24; Matthew 26:30; 1 Corinthians 14:15, 40; Philippians 2:3; Colossians 3:16). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
  • The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. Morning Prayer, p. 7; The Ordering of Priests, “Veni, Creator Spiritus,” pp. 543–544. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
  • Hapgood, Isabel Florence, trans. Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. The Third Hour, p. 43; The Office of Setting Apart Readers and Chanters, pp. 307–309. https://www.ponomar.net/data/hapgood.pdf
  • A Manual of Prayers for the Use of the Catholic Laity, prepared and published by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore. New York: Catholic Publication Society, 1888. Occasional Prayers, pp. 166, 168. https://archive.org/details/AManualOfPrayers1888
  • Augustine of Hippo. The Confessions of St. Augustine, Books IX and X. Translated by E. B. Pusey. Project Gutenberg eBook no. 3296. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3296

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