If I become Lutheran, Anglican or Catholic, it will be because I watched this too many times.
25 Aug by
...dispatches from the post-evangelical wilderness
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Well, they do look to be getting a healthy work-out! Even when I used to go to rock concerts, I didn’t like being told what to do and I didn’t do it. So others would be jumping up and down and shouting and whatnot and I would just sit, watch, listen. My husband was the same way. We just were not the “active” type. Yet, now, I don’t mind sitting, standing, kneeling, professing faith on cue during the Mass.
I think many of us feel a need to belong to a “team” and to do “team” things. I go in and out of team mode myself. Sometimes, I want nothing to do with being a part of any team and I just go on by myself. But it can get lonely living that way…and unhealthy. The trick is to find a team that is healthy, supportive, loving. And to make sure that you know the Captain of the team very well!
That was repetitive nonsense. What a disgrace!!
We love the “lordy”?
Great! Worship can be fun and corny and most of all loud! The Lord allows fun to be had! Why not let loose!!! I’m still waiting for an all metal-hardcore worship team or church! iMonk you should start one!!!
I can see it now:
Just like Metalocalypse, except CHRISTIAN (TM)!
The singing alone cracks me up.
I was at a water park with my kids yesterday and the “real” (aka “secular”) version of this song was played over the loudspeakers. From the lyrics, it appears to be a song about a sex act.
Not surprising. As South Park put it, “It’s easy to write Christian songs. Just take 20-year-old pop songs and substitute “Jesus” for “Oooooo Baby!”
Though what I heard the song was originally about a stripper doing a pole dance.
And the sock-spinning could have been worse. At least they didn’t spin them round round baby round round Jamaican-style. According to Maurice Broaddus’ blog, in Jamaica it’s common at open-air concerts to set your T-shirts on fire while spinning them around round baby round round over your head. “More Fire! More Fire!”