A Little Leaven

You Call This Worship?

One particularly poignant episode of South Park mocked the Christian music industry. In that episode the crass little creeps from South Park started a "Christian Band" by changing the lyrics to popular love songs. Every time the word 'baby' appeared in a song they replaced it with the word 'Jesus' and viola, the song was 'Christianized'.

Well, it appears that the makers of South Park knew what they were mocking. Here is video of what is passing for worship now a days. The "worship" leader is Rick Pino and the "praise song" being sung is a popular song from the 80's called You Spin Me Right Round and only one word was changed in order to Christianize it. (Ironically, the word 'baby' was changed to 'Jesus')

HT: Defending Contending

Club Worship?

Nowadays, any kewl and fun thing that the world is doing can be 'Christianized' by just slapping the word "worship" on it. The video below gives a great example. It's about Hip Hop.Electronica.Dance "Club Worship".

Our favorite line in this video is about learning the role of break dancing in worship. (we did not make that up)

This Purpose-Driven Church Has "Friends in Low Places"

Imagine showing up at church to find that your pastor has decided to stage his very own American Idol contest.

A church member decked in country and western garb walks on stage and begins singing "I've got friends in low places".

In a western twang he belts out such inspired lyrics as:

I've got friends in low places
where the whiskey drowns
and the beer chases my blues away

As soon as this 'church' song is finished the music minister stands up and calls people to worship the Lord.

Does this sound too insane to be true?

It's not! Here is the video to prove it!

This is from Newspring Church in Anderson, South Carolina.

Perry Noble is their pastor and he is a disciple of Rick Warren. Click here to read his open letter to Rick Warren.

After watching this video please scroll down and read the update. This story gets better.

*** Update ***

This story gets weirder by the minute.

We received a tip from a reader that “Pastor” Tony Morgan of NewSpring Church commented on the “American Idol” sermon series at his blog. Here is what he said:

"The vote for next weekend's opening song included Brick House by the Commodores. I'm just praying that God loves funk."

Here is the link.

Yep, "Pastor" Tony was personally pulling for the funk song ‘Brick House’. This is a song that is about the female anatomy. And yes, this song was sung in their church as part of their American Idol contest. Here are some of the lyrical highlights of ‘Brick House’:

Verse:
1. She knows she got everything
a woman needs to get a man, yeah.
How can she use, the things she use
36-24-36, what a winning hand!

Verse:
2. The clothes she wears, the sexy ways,
make an old man wish for younger days
She knows she's built and knows how to please
Sure enough to knock a man to his knees

We're sure these lyrics fit perfectly with the other sermon series they did called "Girls Gone Wild". How kewl is it that they named an entire sermon series after a series of porn videos.

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Golly those Purpose-Driven Churches sure are relevant.

Shaking it for Jesus - Saddleback Style Part 2

The song is called "We are the dancing generation".

Rather than looking like 'deep worship' this looks like The Lord of the Flies Youth Group.

Here's a Great Technique to Get Men to Come to Church

Want more men at church? Have the women in your praise band wear less clothes.

Guys will be coming from miles away just to have a 'spiritual experience'.

This approach to church adds a new dimension to the terms 'seeker sensitive' and 'felt needs'.