Worship Lighting Colours

Here’s a clip from an interesting blog entry on lighting colours used in worship, from visualworship.com:

My take on worship lighting colors; and what mood they portray:

Red - Communion, death, blood, sacred, sadness.  Good Friday service.

Blue - calm, peace, serenity.  Typical for sky or night…

Amber/CTO - candle, warm, intimacy.  Lots of response songs.

Yellow - happy, joy, loud.   Easter service.

Purple/Magenta - royalty, majestic, color of Advent.  (Dark purple - Lent)

White - cleansed.  I like to pair red with pure white to communicate how we have been cleansed by the blood of Christ during certain worship elements.

I don’t use Green in worship.  To me, it comes across as weird, alien, money, and not fitting in worship songs necessarily.  If I’m doing green nature imagery, I go with amber lighting.