Can Someone Explain This To Me?

Rosi

Hahahah…

Ok Thats Weird

They should really read your blog. Particularly the post about the right — and wrong — reasons to get made fun of.

telee

These people are the perfect example of why the word “idiot” was neccessary in the English language.

Fred Applegate

We Catholics have always understood the mysterious power of ritual… but have always leaned toward the polka. The great irony here is the (possibly folk but widely accepted) etymology of the words “Hokey Pokey”, a derivative of “Hocus Pocus”, thought to be a corruption of “Hoc (enim) est Corpus” (“This is My body”) from the Latin Mass. Thus the intent to ridicule the Mass has come full circle. I suppose. Probably not.

http://www.facebook.com/fuzedworship Dan

When i watch a video like this then i no longer have to question why much of the world thinks christian are crazy and full of crap!

Bob Bonebrake

Heavy on the hokey. The worship leader should be in the pokey.

Michael

On one hand, this is extremely awkward and rather embarrassing, and I hate to see people taken advantage of and manipulated emotionally by spiritual “showmen” and charlatans.

On the other hand, we serve a God who honors a lot of things the world would see as “foolish.” I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if genuine healings happened to folks who were honestly willing to become “foolish” in faith.

Jesus told a dude to go dip himself in a dirty river seven times. Jesus spit on dirt and rubbed it into a blind man’s eyes. God told Abraham to sacrifice his son. Jesus told his followers to gather a few loaves of Wonder Bread and some sardines so He could feed thousands of people. God told Noah to take 120 years to build a boat in a place that probably never had rain. David danced down the street in his underwear praising God...

Rodney Olsen

Can you imagine these guys at their worship practice on a Tuesday night? “OK everyone, here are the songs we’re doing on Sunday. We’ll start with Eensy Weensy Spider, Polly Wally Doodle, Old MacDonald and Itsy Bitsy Spider. Then we’ll hit ‘em with the Hokey Pokey.”

Kathleen Whittaker

SHEEP!

http://donschaffer.wordpress.com/ Don Schaffer

I am not one to judge others’ motives, but all believers are called to discern the spirits. Do miracles happen today? Of course! I should be dead today except by God’s Divine intervention and protection in my life – others could speak to the Lord’s working beyond the normal as well. However, Jesus never created any hype before he healed individuals (I am sure that there was already excitement when Jesus was around, but He was not the one instigating it). On the contrary, His mission was to emphasize His Father’s love for mankind. He often healed with the goal of belief of individuals (belief did not always come before healing) and many times in conjunction with the salvation of a soul, but belief/faith was not built through the element of excitement – it resulted in a direct encounter with the Divine Healer, himself.

Any element of worship that draws attention away from God and His glory is not worship, but entertainment. Churches all need to beware that they do not fall into this trap, because when they construct a feeling like they are really in, they are definitely out.

Dean

I… I can’t even bring myself to watch it.

http://www.twitter.com/JoePastori Joe Pastori

Ever hear the song “Undignified” ?

Pokey lover

He gets big offerings

Asian believer

I don’t know about all the heresy hunters with ThDs out there but I bet if you asked the girl who got healed of MS in the end who was jumpin around she’s grateful for whatever went down that night. I’ve been healed dramatically too so I’ll do the Hokey Pokey anytime if it means I’ll get another chance at time with my loved ones! Pharisees may have been technically right about the law not allowing healing on the Sabbath but Jesus cut the shennigans and healed anyway. That’s what Jesus is all about. Just sayin…

Jody Eldred

As I’ve pondered for many years, “What if the Hokey Pokey really IS what it’s all about?”

sean

i’m always grateful for people who “do something.” So many christians do nothing and there are a lot of dead churches in every city… but they receive no criticism… imagine if we started to blast the apathetic and the idle….

Sandra

Thank you for a great perspective. So true. You have to go with what God is doing. David praised and danced his pants off. Some freak at raised hands. Be open to God. He wants to do miracle but we aren’t goingto see the realm by just doing our little programs. Or have you already noticed that? Not saying to do the outlandish for the hec of it either. Maybe those people needed to break out of their box and God brought some fun and silly to break the ice then they were able to praise uninhibited? Just a thought.

John

I Cor. 14:23-24…yall should be careful about what you put on the internet for anyone to see…

Scott Unclebach

Well this proves that God does have a sense of humor. Even we do the Hokey Pokey God can still show up! I have to say that this would freak out a bunch of people and that might run out!

http://availablelightonline.com/blog/ Onward, Forward, Toward…

Phil:

I can explain to you what this is. This is the reckless and irresponsible actions of people who take the sacred things about the Holy Spirit and trivializes them into some joke.All from the same people who are so desperately trying their best to get us to buy Todd Bentley 2.0 post Lakeland

I thought the Rick Pino videos

We Have The Best Dad…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeinOFLz6OQ

You Spin Me Right Round Jesus… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ1diGCosjQ

Mess Us Up… http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=6903012

and at least five videos of people going “Christ Christ, Baby” were already bad enough – the holy ghost hokey pokey takes the cake.

What’s next “Stanky Legg in the spirit……”

http://www.recoveringpentecostal.com Jenni Baier

I used to be a part of churches/ministries like this. I don’t question the sincerity of many who are involved in this… and as a worship “style,” I’m sure there are folks who truly enjoy that sort of thing. I don’t really mind people acting foolish and having a good time in church… but I have to take issue when proponents of this sort of thing put themselves on a higher level of spirituality than those who prefer to worship to the tune of “On Christ The Solid Rock I Stand.”

I am also extremely uncomfortable with the idea of justifying a practice based on reports of miracles. Even when there is a genuine miracle, attaching it to a style of worship or a specific song seems a bit shaky. In medicine, when a surgical procedure is successful in removing a tumor, we don’t build a shrine around the specific surgical instruments that were used. We acknowledge the work of the surgeon, who could have used any number of instruments to accomplish the task.

The modern church isn’t alone in mistaking the tool for the craftsman.

In the Old Testament, when Isreal had sinned and a plague was spreading through the population, God chose an unusual means to heal the people: a bronze serpent. Anyone who looked at the bronze serpent was healed. God used that means at that moment. Fast forward a few centuries, and we find that the bronze serpent has become an idol, something that the people worship instead of worshiping God. It had to be destroyed.

Anything that we elevate above God – even something that God Himself has done – has the potential to become an idol.

Mrs. C

I agree about God honoring the faith of those who’d dare to believe Him, long as there’s no sin invloved. You know some people stress themselves into heart attacks, strokes and other conditions, so who knows what was really happening, here, cause there’s no context. Remember holy laughing?? I think things like that can happen spontaenously by the Spirit, but when man tries to manipulate it, and keep it going, stuff like this willl fall flat after a while, letting everyone know God is NOT in it. And if you continue past that, you’ve got real problems, Houston. As far as the world laughing, I’ve got two words for you: Lady Gaga!

KAR

Why is it okay to paint your face, wear stupid hats, scream, jump and down and act foolish at rock concerts and sporting events, but when it comes to church we’re supposed to be dignified?

Headless Unicorn Guy

Because is there not Something here even greater than a rock concert?

Michael

What’s the fruit? People getting healed. People excited about Jesus instead of Michael Jackson. The people I know are tired of religion. They want something real. Try something different and jump in the river. It might be scary but it may be fun.

http://www.inthatdayteachings.com robert Winkler Burke

Ah, the unexamined life! Except consider this: Following unexamined church demagogue emotionalists….. enables mindless following of unexamined demagogue emotionalists in politics… and ditto community life…. until, guess what! We get the grand slam of mystic tyranny in politics, religion and tribe… AND all become enslaved…. in the great hidden design of demagogues hoping to never be examined! It’s the Holy Strange-Fire Spirit of Hidden Enslavement!

http://jasonprater.org/ Jason C. Prater

Wow… Wow… Wow… These are the kinds of people and services that give ALL of us bad names. When I speak to educated friends of mine who are not Christians, THIS is exactly the kind of thing that turns them away. When we do this kind of thing, I believe we take all the reverence out being in the Lord’s presence. If the U.S. president or royalty were present they would would not do this kind of the thing. So why do it for the King of Kings? I guess I’m missing something.

Bruce Cole

It reminds of when the writer/inventor of the Hokey Pokey, Al Tabor, died. The funeral director had a really hard time getting Tabor into the casket. Every time he put the right arm in, the right arm would come out, right leg in, right leg would come out…and so on… This went on over several days.

Headless Unicorn Guy

When this video first surfaced on IMonk (under the “Stupid Christian Tricks” keyword), I just thought “Man, this is STUPID.” Right up there in the Crazy Preacher Top Ten with Tatted Todd (Sheeka-Boom-Bah! BAM!), Shakin’ Stacy, Tokin-the-Ghost Jehovah-juana Crowder (Yoing Yoing Yoing), You Spin Me Round Round Jeesus Round Round, and the one with The Holy Ghost Enema.

Headless Unicorn Guy

Don’t forget Tokin-the-Ghost Crowder and his “Jehovah-juana Yoing Yoing Yoing!”

Or the Holy Ghost Enema Lady.

“Mess us up”? No need to; you’re already messed up enough.

Henrik Madsen

Well. Maybe it is foolish… But lets be honest, it is fun to do :) Just spas out and loooosin’ a bit up… Shake of the dust once in a while?

Pastor E

Well, if they did it for fun once and people receieved healing ok, but when you start doing it as a deliberate act towards receiving then you’re missing it. It is by faith that people receive healing not by a certain song or certain action. Ive seen and experienced healing in many diferent venues. When the atmosphere is charged with the faith of believers who have come expecting to receive of God, then meracles will take place.

Do we really need to be hypercritical of everything everyone else does?
Was it foolishness to put mud ina blind mans eyes or stick fingers in a deaf mans ears?

Im not preachin, Im just sayin.

jabawockee

This is Christianity at its cheapest point. These people ruin the name of Jesus.

Christianity has mutated very much in the US that it does not resemble to anything I read in the Bible anymore. Ridiculous people!

Charles Fowler

Unexplainable. Someone should be sharing the gospel. And perhaps they should go back to the history HYMNS of the church, which focus on redemption. But again, this is unexplainable!!! Maybe they will sing the alphabet song next.

David

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dk

These people are not drunk as you suppose…doesn’t explain this! I’m trying not to be cynical. Was there a message prior to this that talked about the man at the pool of Bethesda (putting yourself in the waters for healing)? Put your whole self in, put your whole self out? Bizarre! Maybe people get free enough doing something as abstract as the hokey pokey, that they receive healing? Wow…stranger than fiction. Hokey Pokey Christianity? Sounds like your new book title….

joesindorf

I have seen so many preachers and worship leaders do the craziest things to get people to physically engage in worship… but this is just weird. (I must say, however, that is a much better musicial arrangement of the song than what I grew up hearing.) I stopped watching, but did they ever do the line: “…put your backside in…” I might have to watch again.

Dave

Wow! I guess it really is what it’s all about!

Paul Brubacher

I thought you got to be kidding me, so I skipped to the end, where they were talking about being healed. I don’t know what to say. God does use the foolish things.

benji

Hey I lead worship at my church and sometimes it’s pretty dead out there. This could be fun! Not.

http://www.hollywoodprayernetwork.org/ Karen Covell

I think they are just as outside the box as most people think I am for praying for Hollywood……… Who’s to say? Only God knows!

Phil Cooke

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