This worship leader tells the folks to take their shoes off and hey, why not their socks? Some Christians would call me a pessimist, in fact some do, however, I have a really hard time believing that Christ could even take these guys seriously.
I took a class on the Psalms this semester and I learned about the "Prayer book of the Bible." There are guidelines to praise and worship. Now, don't get me wrong, I am NOT one who is a stickler about sticking to guidlines, but I don't understand how worship so often completely ignores the power of lamenting.
Anyways, this Christian worship scene has become ridiculous. These guys took the music of a popular song by Dead or Alive and turned it into laughable worship.
These are the guidelines given in class:
- Praise Jesus, not man
- For the LORD, not the world
- New song, not old song
- Clear message, not vague or deceptive
- Emphasize message, not music or musician
- Local church, not concert hall or club
- Feed spirit, not flesh
- Dedicated to LORD, not worldly
New song, not old song: It's not new song, it's old secular song.
Clear message: What does "spin me right round, Jesus, Right round! Like a record, Jesus, spin me right round now!" even mean?!
Emphasize message, not music or musician: Fail.
Local church, not concert hall or club: Fail.
Feed spirit, not flesh: Their toes I suppose felt nice, but their spirit?
Anyways, contemporary Christian music does not make sense to me. It's loud and obnoxious and frankly the guys who were playing looked like tools. Rock on, man.
3 comments:
It is interesting to watch the "emerging church" emerge. Trying to be relevant?
I'm just sorry we have the technology to videotape this (not really, I suppose) -- and then display it for the world to see (this is what makes me sorry). So embarrassing. There may have been weird things done in the name of Jesus historically, but we don't have the opportunity to download them. The "Jesus Camp" movie . . . etc.
You can find people doing really weird things (check out Borat), but when it's done in the name of religion, we get the laughs.
But you sound like your class gave you some good principles to help you "discern the spirits."
Very interesting aspect of technology. I can see when people post. So I've had (not on your blog) entries dated in March that were actually created on the day of the assignment.
I can see that you posted three comments on this date at 11:01, 11:13, and 11:29 p.m. Hmmm.
TMI?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUUlZDSRU-M
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