Last weekend I was at a church youth camp where I was running a seminar. During the worship service, the tech guys were putting up video clips on the screen behind the words as a visual aid to worship.

If you’ve ever been to events like Soul Survivor then you’ll have seen this kind of thing before. As we sung together, we saw random images of skateboarders, rasied hands, breakdancing, etc. Then suddenly during one quiet, reflective song, Mr Bean comes walking into the middle of the screen!

Now I don’t know about you, but I’ve never found Rowan Atkinson particularly helpful in worshiping God especially when he’s gyrating around performing stupid dance moves! For about 20 seconds, the whole congregation stopped, stared, and sniggered at the video clip as the poor worship leader struggled to carry on. If you’re interested, this is clip they used. Turn the volume down on the YouTube Clip and play some worship music while you watch to get the full effect!

It was one of those moments that was both outrageously funny and terribly awful all at the same time. I know that the organisers were unhappy with what happened, but I still can’t understand what made someone think, “I know, putting Mr Bean on the screen will work really well during this song!”

Whatever the reason, it was a great example of how to kill a worship service! Got any other examples that have happened to you?