Aviator Worship

Aviator Unplugged (but not really)

Oct 13, 2011 Aviator Worship
Posted by Jordan

A couple of months ago we had an awesome Sunday where we stripped down our setup and did a more acoustic oriented worship experience. It was, simply, awesome. At Aviator Church we are fairly well known for being progressive and using mostly electric guitars, synth, and whatever else we can get our hands on that is loud and modern. But every now and then it is nice to just strip it down and worship Jesus in a different way. So we took away all but one of the electric guitars, added a percussion section, keyboard, stand up bass, acoustic 6-string, and acoustic, 12-string, with some intense vocal harmonies. On stage and in the auditorium we brought the lights down very low and put electric candles all over the place as you can see in the pictures below:

We had an especially intense Sunday this week leading some to say, “why don’t we do this every week?” Our vision at Aviator Church is to constantly be innovating new ways to worship so we can reach the next generation for Christ. Currently the next generation, (those who don’t know Jesus) tend to like louder more progressive music. So this is the style we focus on for our worship experiences. However we also will change things up often, we never want to get to complacent in what we do on Sunday mornings. If we keep things fresh then it keeps our worship experiences from becoming ritualistic. The whole point of our worship experience is to worship God and listen to what He has to say to us. When we do stuff the same way over and over we may just go through the motions and miss what God has for us.

-Jordan Golden

Worship Pastor, Aviator Church Derby