Not my favorite, but I grew up with people who loved to sing "I'm a tongue-talking-holy-rollin-born-again-heaven-bound-believer-in-the-liberating-power-of-Jesus'-name...." Kind of the same thing, modernized. (A little bit, anyway.)
Was that song (one-God, Apostolic, etc) sung in church services? We sang it as kids, but it was more of a fun thing, a tongue-twister to see how fast we could sing it without getting tangled up. I would have thought it was WEIRD to hear it sung in church.
I can't stand that 'I'm a Pentecostal' song. God's supposed to get the glory, not me.
Was that song (one-God, Apostolic, etc) sung in church services? We sang it as kids, but it was more of a fun thing, a tongue-twister to see how fast we could sing it without getting tangled up. I would have thought it was WEIRD to hear it sung in church.
I can't stand that 'I'm a Pentecostal' song. God's supposed to get the glory, not me.
Absolutely! (Only a few times that I can remember, actually....)
Remember "Can't Get To Heaven on Roller Skates (or insert any *sin* in particular here?" )
I don't think everything in church has to be serious, OR that everything has to be "vertical." I do think it's weird when something funny or superficial gets a really serious response, like in the Hokey Pokey video.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
Absolutely! (Only a few times that I can remember, actually....)
Remember "Can't Get To Heaven on Roller Skates (or insert any *sin* in particular here?" )
I don't think everything in church has to be serious, OR that everything has to be "vertical." I do think it's weird when something funny or superficial gets a really serious response, like in the Hokey Pokey video.
Did you catch the testimonies at the end? Pain, gone! Gone! Had ta been God!!
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
I don't think everything in church has to be serious, OR that everything has to be "vertical." I do think it's weird when something funny or superficial gets a really serious response, like in the Hokey Pokey video.
I don't think everything has to be vertical, but songs that talk about how wonderful "we" are bug me.
Any of the "this is an Apostolic church, we don't do this or this or that...." type songs just annoy the daylights out of me. Especially when there are non-Apostolic people there.
Sorry wrong link, I meant to post my all time favorite Pentecostalism song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vd_C5KX_lk
Oh my stars....Don't even get me started on this song.
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"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." - C.S. Lewis
I don't think everything has to be vertical, but songs that talk about how wonderful "we" are bug me.
Any of the "this is an Apostolic church, we don't do this or this or that...." type songs just annoy the daylights out of me. Especially when there are non-Apostolic people there.
LOL!!! I know what you mean. I'm just saying...different strokes for different folks--to a point, anyway.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
LOL!!! I know what you mean. I'm just saying...different strokes for different folks--to a point, anyway.
Another fun song we sang as kids (not Pentecostal-oriented, just Christian), was "I am a C - I am a C..H - I am a C..H..R..I..S..T..I..A..N. And I have C..H..R..I..S..T in my H..E..A..R..T... and I will L..I..V..E..E..T..E..R..N..A..L..L..Y!" We would sing it faster and faster and faster until we got all tongue-twisted. It was fun, but another one that would have been weird in church.
I don't think everything has to be vertical, but songs that talk about how wonderful "we" are bug me.
Any of the "this is an Apostolic church, we don't do this or this or that...." type songs just annoy the daylights out of me. Especially when there are non-Apostolic people there.
What a great point, I really haven't thought of it that way--seems like the adoration that belongs to God is going to man.
What a great point, I really haven't thought of it that way--seems like the adoration that belongs to God is going to man.
It is. It just grates on me. There's one in particular that goes down the list of standards..."The women don't wear makeup in this church! They don't cut their hair or blah, blah, blah!" It literally turns my stomach.
It is. It just grates on me. There's one in particular that goes down the list of standards..."The women don't wear makeup in this church! They don't cut their hair or blah, blah, blah!" It literally turns my stomach.
(Only a few times that I can remember, actually....)
I do think it's weird when something funny or superficial gets a really serious response, like in the Hokey Pokey video.
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