So what you’re saying is that we dictate to God what is acceptable worship to Him? And that juvenile gutter humor about vomit is now an acceptable practice in the church?

Could you please direct me to Scripture and/or church tradition to justify this stance?

Correct spelling: throw up my Hand to the lord Well I guess it’s a different way to praise god but if it was me. I would want God to not Only release my toxins from my body but destroy my flesh completely so that he has all Control

I realize I’m walking a fine line here. On one hand, I read far too many comments on worship blogs like this: “I was SO moved by the worship today, it was awesome!” — as if the worship was for my benefit. On the other hand, I also hear people say, “Four songs: first two fast, then medium, then slow, to get us ‘in the mood.’ Then pastor preaches. Then we go home. Same old, same old.” While this is also me-centered worship, it also demonstrates how worship which is boring can be a barrier to meeting God. Whatever you might say about this song, it is NOT boring.

So when I see children (and children-at-heart) singing “I’m going to throw up my hands and praise the Lord” — not just mouthing the words, but singing with pure joy — then I find it hard to condemn that.

As for the theology of the second verse, I agree it’s not right. When I heard this, they changed the words to “hurl my fears out the door.”

Finally, don’t judge the song on the basis of an immature song leader who thought it was “cute” to add the vomiting sounds at the end. You can any worship song and mutilate it: that ridicule doesn’t reflect the character of the song, but rather the singer.

So, justification of a “worship” practice is decided by whether the person doing it likes what he is doing?

Are we to teach children to have fun in worship by being gross, or to worship the Holy Almighty God in spirit and in truth as the Scriptures command us?

Consider carefully what God has said throughout His word about what form of worship is pleasing to Him.

Jeremiah 50:6 “My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have led them astray; They have turned them away on the mountains. They have gone from mountain to hill; They have forgotten their resting place.

But hey, cartoons of Jesus are okay according to many, so many carrots are good too…

“Kid” as in goat. But this belly dancing stuff so reminds me of Israel picking up the ways of the heathen and incorporating them into their culture, even into their worship.

“Then He brought me into the inner court of the LORD’S house. And behold, at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they were prostrating themselves eastward toward the sun.” Ezek. 8:16

Seems like Christendom today (so called) is falling headlong repeating error after error of Old Testament Israel.

Would you believe “Belly Dancing for the glory of God“? And, of course, the Purpose-Driven™ sheep lined up to defend it.

I…Kid…You…Not…

I think your previous post and this one are spot-on, pointing out the putrid stuff that passes for worship and service to the Lord of Heaven. If you want a beating for doing good, I’ll be glad to oblige :-) Or perhaps that fella from Florida with his “biker boots” could give ya a solid kick in the stomach. Now that would be to glory of God, eh?

Grow not weary, my brother.

Enough, enough, enough!!!

The only way the blasphemy could go any deeper is if the companion DVD allowed kids to follow the motions of “hurling jesus”, “buddy jesus”, “pie-in-the-face jesus”, and “crazy-clown jesus”.

In Him,
CD

When I first saw this video, words escaped me! Sadly, this is the kind of drivel that many employ to “entertain” the children of the sheeple who are getting adult size doses of entertainment while they and their children are being driven down the broad road to destruction.

The Desert Pastor

“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe to stumble, it would be better for him if, with a heavy millstone hung around his neck, he had been cast into the sea.” Mark 9:42