Messy Mondays: How to Write a Worship Song (In 5 Minutes or Less) 

The messed up Power Point section is so spot on!!! xD

I think Hillsong might sue you over this one. They don't take kindly to giving away their secrets.

the powerpoint was spot on! literally every chapel that happends

I DIED WHEN THE LYRICS WERE AT THE WRONG PART AND THEY HAD TO BE FLIPPED THROUGH #chapeleveryweek

I run the slides in church and 3:16 made me laugh so hard!

the powerpoint fail made me laugh til i cried xD

"Something needs to be in flames" hahahaha

I used to tour in a Christian rock band...this is spot on.

I love how they threw in the next slide hunt

I couldn't breath for a minute when he had to scroll through the lyrics at the end.

anyone else notice that when contemporary Christian songs come out they treated like pop music? I mean it comes out and every Church sings it for a couple weeks before it dies off and if anyone sings it a year or so later people are like "wow that song is so old, I haven't heard this one in a while"

The powerpoint joke is on point!

Why do I like that song so much?

Yeah, I'm sticking with the hymnal.

What I find most frightening here is that although this song is a satire, it is scarily close to being one that a church might actually sing. Or what if one of the top Christian song artists released it as their own work? I could envision it becoming very popular. We need more songs that contain deep biblical truths - I find myself appreciating more and more the 'old-fashioned' songs - they frequently pack incredible theology into a simple, memorable tune. The older songs also tend to be better for congregational worship, which is another area I think the modern Christian music scene is lacking. Don't get me wrong, I like many of the contemporary songs, but they just don't 'sing' well in church if that makes sense. The main focus really should be on worship for a church, not an individual. Individual worship is fine, but we weren't created to primarily worship alone. Lastly, in regards to song content, I tire of self-focused songs where the emphasis is on me and my life, rather than God. And there is also a glaring lack of recognition of things like sin and judgement in many modern songs about salvation, which is worrying as you really need to know both sides of the coin (your sin, and God's love) to appreciate why the Good News is good news. Well, I've rambled on a bit, but those were just my thoughts.

THIS IS SO SAVAGE AND ACCURATE OMG

Was at a youth conference last Saturday and I managed to survive praise and worship times by applying this video to each song XD when I wasn't going deaf that is... Oh yes and we got the slide disaster too ;)

I love how legit this is. It seriously sounds like something I normally hear, and truthfully it was creative and sounds great with little effort. You know, it really makes me think if my church is duping me.

TIP: if you’re in charge of the PowerPoint, switch to a totally incorrect slide for 2 minutes until people start turning around to see if you’re doing your job. Then, rapidly scroll around until you find the correct slide, so everyone stops mumbling, since they only know the chorus.

as someone who has been to many retreats, the power point slip is very accurate.

It's not necessary to be wonderful or not; beautiful or ugly but in God's eyes, no song dedicated to him is meaningless. If you sing it with your whole heart that's worship. Worshipping God in spirit and in truth- that is what he likes.

"Something just needs to be in flames." lol! I love it!

*Something needs to be in flames* Oh my hahahaha xD

LOL. I love the change of slides. It happens all the time where the singer is singing one verse and the one changing the slides goes through a few ones to get the right one LOL

I love the slide mess up at the end. Just makes the entire video that much better

This is spot on! Especially when the PowerPoint gets messed up.

The power-point flip out in the middle of the song was spot on lol.

I saw this video forever ago and awhile ago I wanted to show it to my friends because it's one of my favorites, and that helped me remember your channel so now I've been catching up with what you've been doing over the past year or so and I'm glad to see that your videos are still golden! Keep up the good work!

OHMYGOODNESS YES, EVERY FRIGGIN CHRISTIAN SONG SOUNDS EXACLTY LIKE THIS!!!!! SOMEONE FINALLY SAID IT!

"something always has to be on fire." Why is this so true?

Don't forget the classic "let your light shine" or "shine your light for the world to see"

Jordan (the guy who made the video) agrees with you. He's mentioned how older songs are much more deep. The problem is that especially at youth conferences or ultra-modern megachurches, no one uses those good songs. They all sound like this ^^. I wish we all focused on deep lyrics to go along with modern instrumentation, especially since all the words are on a screen anyway.

so true. I find myself not listening to Christian music just because it's all overplayed and repetitive.

This is my favorite Messy Mondays video, because EVERYTHING in this video is 100% true!

You can pretty much do the same thing with any type of music. Metal, blues, punk rock.. you can find striking similarities in all of the songs of each genre.

We once sang a song in youth group called "The Heart of Worship" that adressed the same things as this video.

The hilarious accuracy. I think we have developed a sort of mainstream Christian definition. Can you imagine what people would think if we were to play--oh, I don't know--one of Flyleaf's songs during worship?

It's so accurate it's disgusting.

0:43-0:49 “Your love never fails it never gives up, it never runs out on me”

I kinda want to get my youth pastor to have us sing this next Wednesday night...

Can I just say this is SOOOOOOOOO true!!!!! And the messed up slides... PERFECTION! SO awesome

I grew up listening to worship music my entire life and I find this to be hilarious and spot on.

Miss Resurrection Band and Rich Mullins, they wrote songs of real substance!

The full version of the song (in the description) has things on fire and flooding. I was at soul survivor the other week, and although it was awesome, there was definitely a theme of water and fire lol.

Never fails to kill me every time. One of the best Blimey Cow videos ever!

*I love this video! It's funny, informing, relatable, fast-pace, and it has everything you basically need to know! Thank you so much for this awesome video.*

this is the most relatable thing I've ever seen

And there you have it... K-Love's next #1 song.

Couldn't be more true. EVERY TIME.

Bummed this song wasn't on Long Drive.

The lyric scrolling is absolutely brilliant.

The comments have some people defending the inane banality of praise and worship music on the grounds that God doesn't care about the quality, He just cares that you're praising Him. That would be true if there was a group where amateurs did their best to write a praise song and the quality was low because they were doing their best but just sucked at it even when they were trying hard to do a good job. But the people who produce the drivel we're subjected to in modern churches are basically Madison Avenue marketers creating junk food for the soul and getting rich from it. They're exactly the kinds of people who had Jesus flipping over tables. THAT is the problem. It's not just that the quality is low; it's that it's deliberately low and people are turning God's house into a den of thieves.

I don't think so... There's nothing wrong with respectfully pointing out cliches in modern church culture. Being a young adult who grew up with all of this, I can say it's extremely accurate and also funny. Good, clean, honest humor like this is fairly hard to come by these days.

well maybe i never quite had a finger on why I loved hiphop..this video explains that.

I can seriously see this song being on the radio

as the person who controls the PowerPoint lyrics irl, the end part was relatable

Hahahah the wrongs lyrics slide lol thought only our church does it

"I was lost but now i see" I didn't catch that the first time. WOW!

Hey, uh nothing in the song was on fire... :)

This never gets old lol

This hits close to home!

Just came back to this one... It's so accurate in describing modern "worship" songs. I go to a conservative church that still sings the old hymns and I find so much doctrine and truth in them. I was on prac at a school that uses Christian Contemporary Music in its chapel services and was pretty disgusted by it. One member of the worship team was there solely to get students to join the mosh pit down the front (that's the only way I know how to describe it anyway).

Seriously that powerpoint part killed me XD

That's often down to the worship team not clueing AV in on how they're attacking a certain number. Especially when it all sounds the same...

"....and fire rhymes with desire" I bursted out laughing.

Woah, the final resul sounds a lot like tha band Her Bright Skies

The worship stay amazing

THE SONG IS SPOT ON

AAAAAND thats why i listen to Preson Phillips, great vid

This just brings me joy :)

So true! The lead riff part made me laugh so hard. =) If I have to improv something that I can't figure out by listening to the song or finding music somewhere I resort back to just that!

this is actually a bop

It's 2024 and this is still accurate

The truth in this video omg I love this

Oh wow. It worked. I could go write "Christian" music now!

I'm a youth minister and I approve this message.

I also do the slides at my church and the skipping happens. It's usually when I get distracted for just a moment too long and then I freak out seeing that the team is on a different verse and I start randomly clicking.

This is so hilariously true on so many levels! ---> especially "don't forget the woah's"!!!!

how is this so relatable 🤦😂😂

The slides at the end killed me! Tgats exactly what happens at church!

THIS IS PERFECTION!!!

That PowerPoint was perfect!!!

"Start by singing with a couple syllables first before finishing with a powerful "jah"! "Be it our hearts, our souls, this generation. Just something needs to be in flames" HAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

First video I saw from Blimey Cow 🙌

Love the song man sooooo spiritual!! 👌😄

OMG THAT GUITAR IS AWESOME.

I actually really like that song

I LOVE JESUS

3:16 - AMEN!

I'm laughing and crying at the same time. Truth hurts...and is hillarious too!?

Hahahahahaha They got it spot on with the slideshow lyrics delay. LOL XD.

listen the entire song, theere's a linx in the box

3:16 EVERY SINGLE WEEK XD Spot on!!

I love the part were they try to find the right slide. That happens all the time at my church.

Omg!!! Priceless!!!

Bro this song is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😀

I. Love. This.

I laughed when I saw the subtitles for the song scroll incorrectly on purpose xD.

I love this song!!!!:)

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