There are tons of church comedy, meme and joke accounts on social media, and I generally steer clear – more on that in another post. The only account I follow that comes close to that category is Worship Fails.

The premise of the account is simple: curating moments from musical worship where something goes wrong. Some feature more prominent worship leaders like Brooke Ligertwood and Henry Seeley, but most are local church worship leaders. Mishaps include tracks in the wrong key or a rogue hazer triggering the fire alarm.

Here’s a more famous example of some of the material they post:

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Throw Back Thursday – This one has been requested more times than I can count! Enjoy! #worshipfails 🔥🙌🏼😂

A post shared by Worship Fails (@worshipfails) on Oct 3, 2019 at 5:06am PDT

I’ve had my fair share of Worship Fails over the years, I’m just grateful they were in places where we weren’t live streaming and no one was recording (I hope).

Worship Fails is needed because it reminds us all that we’re just one word, button, semitone or fire alarm away from being embarrassed. So much so, that it will shatter the image, we’ve worked so hard to put together.

Somewhere between when we first started and the “big stage,” pride crept in and made us think we were more important than we are.

That walking up out from a green room, stone-faced, fidgeting with our in-ears as the Pastor wraps up makes us more spiritual or special.

That we have the right to be offended when the Pastor ends the song early, and that big guitar solo at the end gets cut.

That it’s okay to joke about that one person on the team who’s seemingly less talented than you.

How about that worship has more to do with our talents, instead of the state of our hearts.

In Philippians 2:5-11, Paul details the greatest act of humility ever shown. Christ, who was equal to God as the Father was, stepped out of heaven and into our story. This journey led him to an undeserved death on the cross.

Jesus did it. So we must follow.

Let’s walk humbly onto the platforms we serve.

Let’s submit to the spiritual direction of our leaders.

Let’s encourage and build each other up.

And that is why I love Worship Fails. It’s a constant reminder to be humble. It makes the drop a lot less painful when something inevitably goes wrong. I think Solomon had something to say about that.