To Audition or Not to Audition

I was having a very interesting conversation the other night with a friend. It seems the church where I attend is looking at starting an audition process before letting people on the worship team.
This raised a very interesting response from my wife who although she can sing quite bluntly stated that she would never consider taking part in a worship team that required her to Audition first. When prompted a little further she elaborated that an Audition process had a number of cons

1. intimidating for the person wanting to audition.
2. Demoralizing for the person who thought they could sing all their life but then found that this was not the case.
3. Puts forward the view the the worship team is focused on perfection and performance rather than God.

These of course are all very interesting and valid points, I did however have a response of my own that simply being that the Audition process could offer a lot of benefits as long as the people facilitating it were doing so with the right heart. Obviously it would not be run like Australian Idol, but there would be a certain level of "confronting" responses that people may be un-happy with. Of course the pro's of such a process are

1. Increased quality of worship music
2. Ability to determine why people want to be on the Worship team.

so now I throw it out to the great wide web what are your thoughts experiences with this concept within the church? Does it work? Does the focus change?

post away !