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What is grace? That is a weird question to start off a column about dealing with tech troubles during a church service. Well, actually, it has everything to do with the subject. Yes, I am talking to you, pastor (or worship leader). I know that you are the man with the power for the hour and have the anointing and all, but sometimes we forget that there has been only one perfect person on earth and we killed Him.
But first letâ??s go through a scenario that happens countless times each and every Sunday during church services all over the world. Ever have one of those Sundayâ??s where the song lyrics are just have a tough time getting on the screens at the right time if at all or the wrong song? Or canâ??t keep the PowerPoint up with pastorâ??s message? Or the DVD/VHS isnâ??t cued to the right place?
Sometimes mistakes and mis-cue happen. There are days when a volunteer or staffer just for some reason is having trouble this morning. Now all of this bars an inadequacy in having the proper equipment installed or training done. People make mistakes from time to time. As long as Technical Excellence is the pursuit of the tech team, we should not take our frustrations out on someone when something goes wrong. Remember that most of our tech teams are volunteers and believes that he or she has been called to this ministry. And you assigned them to the task.
Tech team members are generally perfectionists, or at least they strive for technical excellence. Therefore, they tend to be very hard on themselves. So jumping their case when a glitch happens, really serves no one any good. If anything, donâ??t over react. Doing so will move the volunteerâ??s pursuit of technical excellence to just trying to not get yelled at again.
Talk about it. Simply ask why were the slides late. You might find that the ancient mouse ball has so much crud on it that you are lucky if you can even click on anything correctly or any myriad of issues that may need to be resolved.
One of my pet peeves is last minute changes that donâ??t lend themselves to proper setup or planning. Now, I know that these situations will crop up from time to time, but it puts a lot of pressure on volunteer crewmembers when last minute changes are the norm. Now, if the crew is used to last minute changes and strive their best for a smooth service, please temper yourself when something goes wrong.
Your tech team really does want to pursue technical excellence in whatever last minute change the Holy Spirit is having you make. But donâ??t forget that the team members also capable of hearing from the Holy Spirit and maybe the teams spiritual growth might be a better area to focus on instead of who did what wrong last week.
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