This is the single most powerful argument I have seen to date on why there should not be dancing in church! I would even support that this dance routine never happen again on the planet earth. It’s like the Bible meets Disco with a splash of Tony Orlando and Dawn!
For those of you who like to watch traffic accidents…
Very scary!
I saw the “Jesus is a Friend of Mine” clip on another blog recently under the heading “Graveyard of Relevance.”
When we watch these we can be reminded that what we do today in a effort to mimic the culture in the name of relevance will look just as silly 20 years from now as these do to us today!
Thanks a lot. This is what I get when I check the blogs over lunch…!
I think Five Iron Frenzy should definitely cover this one.
I think the key words in Larry’s comment are “mimic the culture.” Either you are of a culture or you are not. So much has been compromised here that the end result was inevitable.
Here we either have people trying to praise God by being something they clearly are not (mimicking and failing miserably) OR they are but have had so many constraints of” Christian sub-culture” put on them that this was the result — no authenticity.
I tend to think it was a lot of both.
(Now I’m gonna have this song running through my head all day long. Especially the “And He’ll zap you any way He can” line. LOL!)
My 6-year-old daughter, on hearing the music and my wife bursting out laughing at the second one:
I don’t know — I think Schultz and Ken should start working on some choreography. 🙂
Oh boy! This one was too good to pass up commenting on. I did talk to Dan first though! It reminds me of the movie Napoleon Dynamite.. It is much funnier the second time around! I am about to try it for the third time. 🙂 Should I grab some popcorn? No! I’ll probably choke!
I have to disagree though with silly songs of yesterday looking foolish today, so why do it at all? There are songs I’ve written years ago that I would not dare sing in public today, however at the time they ministered to me and to my friends. They weren’t as creative as Jesus is a mountie (lately I do think of Him as my GPS; Twenty years from now I’m sure I’ll laugh at that too). Today I wouldn’t sing many of those songs because they just don’t minister to me as effectively as my newer ones do. I guess that’s why we are encouraged throughout the generations to sing a new song unto the Lord. At the time I believed I was honoring God or maybe just worshipping Him the best I knew how. Scripture says whatever you do, do it unto the Lord; eating, drinking, or a horrible Latin imitation of Michael Jackson. Think about it? How many of us hear a good song in our house and dance with Goofiness unto the Lord?……Well maybe not a lot, but for those of us that do, I’d like to think that God, a loving father, with a huge sense of humor (prayerfully) is laughing with us, with the pride of a Dad. I am so glad God looks at us and sees our heart and not our goofiness. He sees our genuineness when others may laugh. Yes, man sure does look on the outward appearance, but God looks on the heart. There is much peace in that truth.
Needless to say, I understand that the doctrine of this group is off, so I pray that they have a clearer understanding of the Word today, and I still laugh; It really is funny! I bet they laugh looking back on it too. Thanks Dan!
I kept picturing singing Vegetables. Personally I like the “Cheeseburger Song” better.
I think the only redeeming things from this video are the Gibson Les Paul and the Ludwig Vistalite drumkit. 🙂
ZAP!
Yo Yo Dog. These videos and songs are HOT HOT HOT!
What choreography! What fab wardrobes.
Was there a website where we can sign up to audition for one of these shows?
Wow. I was not expecting that.
I was wondering why the first guy didn’t have a handheld mic; now I know- he needed his hands free so he could “pop”! He totally took all my moves from the 80’s. I think Paula Abdul choreographed that. I know I’ve seen several of those runs in a Janet Jackson video or two.
Unfortunately, I have no clue what they were saying most of the time; a classic example of being too distracted by the ‘show’ to listen to any content. What was the Key they kept talking about? NO clue over here…
The second one was kind of clever, musically. I give them kudos for trying something different-really different.
Here’s hoping that Jesus isn’t waiting to “zap us any way he can”…