DECATUR, IL — The worship team at Cornerstone Fellowship Church logged four hours and eleven minutes of rehearsal Thursday evening in preparation for a Sunday morning set that, when performed before the congregation, lasted exactly twenty-two minutes, including a brief pause to locate a capo.

The session, which began at 6:30 p.m. and concluded at 10:41 p.m., featured seventeen run-throughs of the bridge to “Build My Life,” a forty-minute discussion about whether the key change in the third song was “too much” or “just enough,” and a full breakdown of the monitor mix that one guitarist described as “honestly kind of a spiritual experience.”

Worship leader Derek Calloway, 31, said he felt good about the preparation.

“You can always tell when a team has put in the work,” Calloway said. “People in the pews might not know why it feels right. But it feels right because Thursday happened.”

“Thursday happened.” — Derek Calloway, worship leader, on a Sunday that lasted twenty-two minutes

Drummer Pauline Garrett, 27, who arrived at rehearsal having been told it would run “an hour, maybe ninety,” said she had made peace with the situation somewhere around the second hour. “At some point it stops being rehearsal and starts being church,” she said. “Which is fine. I just wish there had been snacks.”

Sunday’s congregation of 214 rated the worship set “really nice” and “a little short” on informal exit surveys conducted by no one.

At press time, Calloway had already scheduled a four-hour rehearsal for next Thursday to address the capo incident.