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i think i just threw up a little.
September 7th, 2006 § 9 comments
i think i just threw up a little.
Re:Generate by Aaron Monts is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
come on aaron, we know that is you out there in the crowd shakin your thang! Ha Ha…that was comical….again it must be said, white people cannot dance. =)
Wow…that’s unfortunate
I was terrified that someone was going to start rapping in all the attempts to be “cool and hip”!
Let’s see if I have the recipe correct:
Start with one full CCM worship band (try to shoot for the ’93-’97 vintage)
Add in 2 parts Miami Sound Machine for every one part bored white guys
Let sit 20-30 minutes
Sprinkle one Assemblies of God Summer Camp girls choir on top
Garnish with late 80′s Soul Train set and lighting
Does that sound about right?
I have to return some videotapes now.
seriously, this an experiment in progressive shock.
my thought process was as follows: “ok, some rich church is doing ‘awesome god.’ nothing too terribly…wait…are they doing hand signs? some of these people are way too into this…holy crap. they’re dancing…badly.”
suffice it to say i continued down this road right up until the break-dance…break. at which point my head exploded.
unbelievable.
In my opinion, you guys are being a little too harsh. What I see is a multi-cultural church celebrating God together with the blending of styles and mediums. The performance may not be 100%, but if it was I wonder if you might be tempted to pan it for being too perfect, or inauthentic.
If someone snuck a video camera into a service at your church, how proud would you be to see it on YouTube?
Let the rocks start flying.
if someone snuck a camera into our “church” some might say is that really church?
actually, the video camera wasn’t snuck into the service. they video tape a lot of things out there… in fact, there are more things on youtube for you to watch from this particular church.
maybe we are being a little too harsh… maybe that’s a good critique for myself to pay attention too, but i just can’t justify doing something like that and calling it “art”. i think i’d rather encourage my church to spend their time doing things that are actually productive in the grand scheme of things.