i don't know if the churches you have been to were like this. i have been to a few that had this very strange operating principle. at the end of the talk or message, or whaddeveryacallit, oftentimes the minister or pastor or speaker or whomeveryoucallthem prays. and what i find disturbing is that often during this prayer the members of the 'worship team' will sneak up to the front and pick up their instruments silently, preparing to strike up a song within the tenth-of-a-second window between the moment the prayer is ended and the moment people's longing looks towards the door translate into physical movement. what gets me, though, is how they do it so silently. are they training to be ninjas? it's just creepy. maybe i'm thinking about this too much.

-dC