Worst Worship Ever?

I sit here in my room during the dark of night, sipping (no, more like gulping) from my 2L bottle of Pepsi, snacking on Chips Ahoy! and Pizza Pops, and figuring out what to blog about.  Then I remember a couple of YouTube videos I came across when during the weekend. 

The first one is described as “Worst Worship Ever?”  I am not sure if this is the worst, but it is definitely odd and I find it slightly offensive to the idea of worship.  Being quite the travesty it is, let me describe it to you.  The worship leader asks everyone to be like Moses and remove their shoes in this holy place (fair enough), but he also asks them “...and while you’re down there, grab a couple of socks.”  Pardon me?  The purpose of the socks is to use them to spin in the air while they sing the next song.  He insists that everyone gets something to spin in the air.  Then he starts singing.  “You spin me right round Jesus, right round, like a record Jesus, right round round round.”  What! 

At first listen, some people’s heads go to the song “Right Round” by Flo Rida, which is far from a Christian theme.  However, a closer listen to the lyrics reveals that the song is actually based off of the original (and better) song from the ‘80’s by Dead or Alive, “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)”.  This choice of song isn’t much better because of the controversy that this “love” song is possibly supposed to be from a man to a man.  Putting all of the controversy of the secular songs aside, this version isn’t really a good worship version of the songs anyway.  The only mention that this song is intended for worship is the inclusion of the word Jesus.  I’m not saying that all worship songs need a certain standard of spiritual language in order to be considered worship, but to take a “love” song and just add the word Jesus does not constitute a good song parody, never mind appropriate worship.  Seriously, I’ve made better song parodies than that during a slow afternoon working at Tim Horton’s.  

Come back tomorrow and I will discuss the video of the Worst Sermon Ever.

Quote of the day: (in "honour" of the release of the new release of the next part of the Hitchhiker's Trilogy, written by Eoin Colfer, taken over for the late Douglas Adams)

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

   -Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)-

Word of the day: sommelier:

\suhm-uhl-YEY; Fr. saw-muh-LYEY\ , noun;

1. A restaurant employee who orders and maintains the wines sold in the restaurant and usually has extensive knowledge about wine and food pairings.