Who's got the golden ticket?

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory was a favorite movie of mine when I was younger. In fact, when I would go to my grandmother's house with my brothers, that was one of the only movies she had for us to watch.

The characters of the movie find "golden tickets" in their Wonka bars, which affords them a trip through the Wonka Chocolate factory. Through the movie, Willy Wonka gets frustrated with some of the characters. I'm thinking to myself, if you wanted them to behave differently, you would think that you would change the way you responded to them, or just made clearer expectations at the front of the tour...

I read an article from Matt Redman recently which stated some truths he learned as a young worship leader. He mentioned that when he was young, leading worship in the youth group, he remembered singing the song, "Isn't He Beautiful." He enjoyed the song, but was approached following a youth service by a fellow youth leader who made the challenge that it may be a little much to ask a physically and emotionally budding teenage boy to say that God is "beautiful." The point of his article was to consider the audience that we're presenting the opportunity to worship, and plan the service with them in mind.

Would certain songs be a better fit in an older crowd? Younger Crowd? Howabout other cultural differences? How would the decisions of our music selection change? Or would it change at all?

Simply said, Wonka could have made the tour more enjoyable for everyone had he been more clear and concise with his directions. We, as worship leaders, ought to be clear and concise with the opportunity we bring before people to enter into worship, but to do that effectively, we must consider our audience.