Leon Trotsky wrote:
I'm always puzzled by the fact that churches have to make up some dorky
name for their band.

Why does it always have to be called a worship team or something like that,
why the heck can't they just call it a band?

Sometimes they do. At my church, it's called both a "worship team"
and "the Gateway band". ("Gateway" is the short name for the church.)

One possible reason is that a "worship team" implies that it's trying
to accomplish something a little different than just a plain band.
A band plays music because they like to or because it's fun or because
they have delusions of being a big rock star. A worship band plays
music because they want to lead worship, and music is one good way of
doing that. The music is important, but it's not primarily about
the music.

It's sort of like the difference between a chauffeur and a race
car driver.

By the way, if anyone is wondering (because I know it's the burning
question that keeps you from sleeping at night), I hate stupid wordy
terminology like "human resources" as much as the next guy. I used
to go to a college that did not have a library; it had a "Learning
Resource Center" or "LRC". This was the same school where, when I
had dropped too many classes (and got put on "progress probation",
which means you've dropped too many classes) mainly due to getting
a job to support myself, I was required to go to the Learning Resource
Center and play a computerized game that was suspiciously similar
to Candy Land. Except in order to advance, I had to correctly answer
multiple choices questions like:

If I had $200, I would spend it on
a) whores
b) booze
c) that nifty new sweater they have at the department store
d) a tutor so I can do well in my classes

It really was almost that dumb. I tried answering 90% of them with
practical, academic-progress-friendly answers and 10% of them with
hey-I'm-doing-well-I'll-reward-myself-just-a-little answers. I
thought a nice 90% work, 10% play balance would be a pretty good
approach, but apparently if you don't spend 100% of your money
and 100% of your time on school, you're evil, at least according to
this game.

Eventually I got (re-)admitted to a real four year college where they
had numerous LIBRARIES but not a single Learning Resource Center
anywhere in sight. The lack of an LRC didn't seem to impede my
learning though.

OK, end of random tangent...

- Logan