People with wheelchairs, hearing difficulties and the like, can enjoy more events and places than ever before, which I think is great. Sometimes as a worship leader, I need to ask some of the same questions that brought about change for access in the places we live. Making worship accessible sometimes means that we need something called restraint in worship. I know that's not a popular word, but to have real worship you have to have both passion and restraint. You're nowhere if you don't have both.
Restraint is the backbone of making music that others can follow and enter into.
Here are a few tips to worship leaders on restraint in worship. Restraint is picking songs that will say what the majority of the people gathered want to say to God. Restraint is the discipline to not play or sing all the time - if you fill all the spaces with your 'stuff,' the music doesn't breath and the congregation feels overwhelmed. Restraint is the realisation that the notes you don't play are just as important as the ones you do. Restraint is not adding tons of embellishments to a song that others cannot follow or sing.