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Where Are Tornados When You Need Them?

David Sessions    Aug 26, 2009    16 COMMENTS    SHARE

I didn’t come up with that hilarious headline; credit goes to an Internet Monk commenter named Joe.

Update, 4:17 p.m. A helpful commenter informs us that the, uh, gathering in the video is from The Ramp, a youth-service sort of branch of Karen Wheaton Ministries in Alabama. You can probably guess the rest from the video.

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  1. someone please find out what church this is.

    — ryan · Aug 26, 03:08 PM · #

  2. Oh … Dear …. God.

    — Alisa · Aug 26, 03:17 PM · #

  3. slaying in the spirit. dear god. dear gooooooodd….forgggiiivee us. for manufacturing absolute crap.

    — nathan · Aug 26, 03:25 PM · #

  4. what has seen…cannot be unseen.

    — eumaeus · Aug 26, 03:55 PM · #

  5. er, missing a “been.” fail.

    — eumaeus · Aug 26, 03:56 PM · #

  6. It’s called the Ramp, and it’s part of Karen Wheaton Ministries.

    — Jason · Aug 26, 04:15 PM · #

  7. This is astounding. I’ve been to one of their meetings (they took the show on the road) and left 10 minutes in. Absolutely horrible, and yet I can’t look away.

    — John Wofford · Aug 26, 07:41 PM · #

  8. This place is about 30 miles from my hometown (why yes, I do call Mississippi home). I know people that have been there, and was encouraged to attend myself. I cannot express at how happy I am that I declined…. I had no idea that I could better worship Jesus by spinning my smelly socks above my head.

    — Matthew Gazaway · Aug 26, 07:45 PM · #

  9. When did Jack Black start leading worship?

    I didn’t make it through the whole thing…apologies in advance if this song came up…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeinOFLz6OQ

    — Scott · Aug 26, 11:01 PM · #

  10. How amused I was to learn that the gentleman leading this “program” considers his music to be “experimental” in nature.

    — John Wofford · Aug 27, 08:35 AM · #

  11. rofl copter

    — Kirk · Aug 27, 10:28 AM · #

  12. Can’t stop gagging… it’s so terrible. “Wave ‘em like I just don’t care”? Apparently not.

    — Emily · Aug 27, 08:18 PM · #

  13. “Haha, yeaaah! We love the Lordy”

    A piece of my soul just died and I’ll never get it back.

    — Nick · Aug 28, 02:42 PM · #

  14. This is extremely interesting from a Durkheimian perspective. In his book, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, he defines religion as any act which separates the sacred and the profane.

    In this service the worship leader attempts to do so by having the listeners remove their footwear. He then obliterates that distiction by inviting a top 40 radio song into the mix. The only defining line remaining is that he, like Eric Cartman in the South Park episode “Christian Hard Rock” has inserted the word JESUS where BABY used to be.

    — Jay U · Aug 28, 04:59 PM · #

  15. I do not condone nor condemn this worship program. But I will say to those of you who do — Your God is too small.

    — Kevin · Aug 29, 10:23 PM · #

  16. This is what happens when you remove an ancient faith from its ancient Tradition, it makes it up as it goes along.

    — JohntheChristian · Sep 1, 09:58 PM · #

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