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Is slowly but surely becoming my favorite type.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqL_Z...e=channel_page

It just seems so much more passionate.
I love seeing people overflowing with their love for God.

Anyone else have any other videos of worship such as this?

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Totally Awesome!:bow

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http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...4912946&ref=nf
THIS IS A LINK TO SOME SPONTANEOUS WORSHIP WE DID LAST MONDAY EVENING..IM THE BIG GUY ON THE RIGHT..lol

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I'll take that over our ShockaMoo anyday.

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I'm not a fan of speaking in tongues in a mic, but this is kind of cool conceptually. Kinda reminds me of Jason Upton's style of worship. I like her voice.

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I can't help but agree. As much as I enjoy traditional Christian music, music like this just impacts me more. As one of the comments on the video says-

"I love spontaneous worship, it fills you up with the Holy Spirit because you know that He is in the room to make someone sing like that!"

and I can't help but agree.

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Wow that is really fantastic! Yes I have always liked this kind of worship. Very spiritual. She looks and sounds much like Misty Edwards. Who is she?

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Kim Walker-she's affiliated with Bethel Church out of Redding.
As far as I know, she's not a part of IHOP but their ministry [Jesus Culture] has conferences and such as well.

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I'm sure she's probably one of Bill Johnson's Bible college students. They are very much into prophetic worship. I love it!

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I think it's Kim Walker. She's on several of the Jesus Culture youtubes.

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yes thats Kim Walker

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That inspired me to weeping and longings for Jesus! Hallelujah! Lord give us much more of this!

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Is every one else (congregation) making up their own songs at the same time or is this not a worship service or what is it?

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From the description of the video, it seemed to be a part of a Sunday night service. Not sure if it was considered praise and worship but there were people worshipping openly in the congregation.

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I confess - it does leave me a bit confused - but I sort of enjoyed it antway..

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Yes friends this is what worship service looks like in some Churches nowadays. I like it far more than the usual Pentecostal shouting type meetings.

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I recently downloaded some of his music-not my cup of tea for the most part-too much repition. but to each his own :)

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MY kind of worship music amongst many others of course, but I can get carried away listening to this..and singing along, yes its different from the usual jumpin/hoppin I also love., this is a very nice other option, I can listen to this a lot., good for private meditation into praise worship times at home, as well.

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Okay

I was going to keep my mouth shut but I can not. Sorry

The way some of you talk this is all a "new" form or worship. Not sure I would call what she was doing 'spontaneous'. She got done at the end and reached down and flipped papers. That says she was reading something or following something. Sorry but I did not feel anything special about her tongues or her singing. Maybe I'm just dead, who knows.
Besides this type of thing of singing and worshipping God 'spontaneously', as you seem to put it, is something I have seen and heard all my life, even in the ULTRA CON churches I grew up around. I have even heard a woman sing in tongues once. She was singing and the next thing you know it was in tongues and kept right on. Those who knew the words to the song needed no one to interpret for them. She kept right up with the music just in tongues. THAT WAS SOMETHING I FELT. You could feel the spirit of God in it.
I have always felt pretty good at feeling things out. I know we do not serve God on a feeling but when His spirit moves in something there is NO mistaking it. Sorry but I did not feel anything with this. Okay so you wanna say it was because it was via a recording. SORRY but I have always been able to feel a REAL move of God even through recordings. If God moved in a service that was recorded I believe it is going to be felt even through recorded versions.
I don't mean to disappoint you all or throw a wet blanket on your 'adoration' of this video, and maybe it is just me, but I didn't get whatever the rest of you are getting. (maybe that is a good thing)
I had no problems with it but from the looks and sounds of it I felt like it was our church on a dead night. =)

jmho

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Looks to me like her flipping the page of the book signified they were going to the next song. That had nothing to do with whether the song she sang was "spontaneous".

Actually as far as "spontaneous" goes most Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches leave some room for that in worship. Some Apostolic groups are picking up on this kind of worship and I think its a good thing. By this kind of worship I mean a kind of blending of Charismatic and Contemporary Christian music.

I can only speak for the Oneness Churches I've personally been in but to me the shockamoo thing gets old fast. I like songs that are sang directly to the Lord for worship.

When I saw Kim Walker doing this I felt the glorious spirit of Jesus Christ bringing me to tears. Of course I have felt that once in a while from something "Pentecostal".

Back in the 70's I fellowshipped with a group called The Ceylon Pentecostal Mission. They were like their name implies very strong in Pentecostal doctrine but had heavily Charismatic worship. They sing in tongues a lot! It was very wonderful. I have never experienced greater seasons in worship than those days.

I guess a "dead service" must be in the eye of the beholder.

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This is a true statement. More than once I have felt the Holy Spirit in a very powerful way during a litergical Lutheran service.

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I agree, for the most part, with you.

I called the worship spontaneous because that's what the church called it upon posting it and I thought that it fit. I don't think that you have to put down the music saying you don't feel anything and that it's a good thing that you aren't among those who do. As I said earlier...to each his own. :)

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I like it as a different and new "style", but I wouldn't want it to be the whole kit and kaboodle.

Vertical worship is overrated, in a certain context. There is a certain superiority complex among those who profess to use mostly or only "vertical worship" songs.

Many songs are meant to speak about God to the congregation, to sing OF His greatness, to testify of His goodness and His great works. :) In fact I seem to recall a scripture about speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making a melody in your heart to the Lord. That verse seems to cover both ends of the spectrum--singing praises TO God, and singing songs to one another ABOUT God.

To much of one or the other, and...well...there needs to be balance.

Personally, I don't see how the congregation can participate much in the actual song, (in the video referenced on this thread) but I can certainly see that it can set a worshipful atmosphere.

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I like songs to and about God.... the ones I don't like are the ones that are about US.... "What kind of church is this? It's an APOSTOLIC CHURCH! We don't do this and we don't do that....." :blah "I'm a Pentecostal". Or songs that sing TO the devil.... "Devil, give me back what you've stolen." Really, do we need to sing TO the devil????

I love songs that glorify God, not the flesh or the devil.

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Ok, there is one exception to this. I still enjoy listening to some of Strypers old stuff. :)

But yes, the "I'm a Pentecostal!" song really grates on me. And that feeling is only amplified when I see the woman with the mighty "poof" and the beehive hair do strutting around belting it out.

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We had a spontaneous outbreak in the middle of the offering and announcements. The Lord decided to then start a prayer line and so many received from the Lord. There was a great word in the service as well. It was awesome.

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No we dont think were better than anybody else. But speaking for myself I do think some forms of music are more spiritual than others.

I agree with Quiet Place. Songs ABOUT GOD how great HE is are very good.

Songs about MAN dont make it for me.

You know like:

Im a one God Apostolic tongue talkin holy roller born again believer.....

Yet there are many many more thats just the glaring example.

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That One God Apostolic Tongue-Talking Holy Roller song is just plain fun to sing! :lol I'd not sing it in church, though. Haven't heard anyone do that, actually. Mainly just us kids, seeing how fast we could spit it out. :lol

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I wasn't talking about you in particular, but I'm a musician/singer/director (director currently on sabbatical), so I usually know what the current trends are, and the "vertical worship" thing is sort of a trend. I understand what it's supposed to mean, but just like anything else that lacks balance, it can get carried away with itself. :)

I'm talking about snooty remarks made by some musicians such as, "We only sing songs that are vertical." Said in a condescending tone, of course. :D

I'm quite alright if someone feels that's the better route to go, although I think it lacks balance. But there IS a certain disdain for some of the older hymns and songs that are not seen as being "spiritual" enough. Again--by SOME. Not all. ;)

I'm not really a big fan of those types of songs, either, but I don't think there's anything wrong with them. Different people relate to music in different ways. Providing a diverse congregation with just one little slice is going prevent some people from plugging in to the worship--through no real fault of their own, except that they can't identify.

I've heard fun songs in church...once our kids' choir sang a song called "The Poochie Lip Disease." It was so funny, the verses were about King Ahab getting upset because he didn't get his way regarding Naboth's vineyard, and the chorus says,

The poochie lip will getcha if you don't watch out
The poochie lip will getcha if you start to pout
So take this little tip
Please control that lower lip
And chase away the poochie lip disease.

So the kids stuck their lower lips out and sang a song that illustrated a point about having a good attitude. It was fun, and they were learning while they sang! :D

Songs are not just for worship. Music is a great teaching tool, a great ministry tool, and very effectively used in testimonials. The idea that music can only be used for praise and worship is very limiting, IMO.

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I watched the video and frankly it did not do much for me. ( Yes, I know I am an old fogey) I have a problem with the constant repetition in the new praise songs. Does the Bible talk about vain repetitions? There are songs of inspiration that can be sung in church that will encourage worship and praise. Songs that quote scripture is fine and I enjoy singing them. But I also enjoy songs that are written from writers experience and story. I do think there should be a blend praise songs.

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There is a Psalm that every verse ends in "His mercies endure forever" or something like that. It's definitely repetition, but it's beautiful.

Personally, I love this type of music sometimes. I like many different kinds though. Miss B is right; there needs to be balance in all things. Sometimes our worship leader gets carried away in the Spirit and starts singing songs to the Lord that are spontaneous and usually rhyme. That's when I know that he's in the Spirit; it's like it's not even him - but God has taken over.

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It seems a bit like a performance, and not very open to congregational participation. We had a great service this morning, in my local assembly, and we sang a lot of "simple songs" as I call them, not songs with simple words, but songs with simple melodies, that anyone could follow along to. The modern songs, with their riffing and "sloppy singing", I have seen to often inflate the ego and flesh of the "worship leader" (a term I don't like much).

If I want to make "groanings that can't be uttered", well, then I won't make a sound because they can't be uttered... If I want to sing and repeat something over and over again, I'll do it alone, in my room or in my car or wherever... I know of people who think I'm dead because of the way I worship in the assembly hall, but I am not going to sing in tongues, and dance in front of everyone or shockamoo and disrupt service and whatnot- I do that at home (not that I'm saying dancing is a sin in the assembly hall, but I think we have to be careful to not be a distraction). I'm also not going to sing so loud as to be the center of attention. And I've go to ask this, does anyone else have a problem with songs that include "Oooo's" and "Ahhh's"? I DO! These are not words, these are oppurtunities to show how far up and down on the scale, and how many octaves they can sing thru, and I don't see it as being a humble display of worship.

And as a preacher, I also won't take 10 minutes to introduce myself, precede my message with a comedy gag, and then get into my message about what happened to me, and where I went and what I did...

There seems to be a lot of self-centeredness going around, and it's fairly more blatant amongst the charismatics, but may it not creep into the apostolic church!

:rant

-Bro. Alex

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Oh my.........I've seen this kind of stuff way more in traditional Pentecostal circles than in independent churches that you would refer to as Charismatic. How many Charismatic churches have you actually attended? And BTW, I am NOT Charismatic either.

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Kim Walker sets the stage for an amazing evening.

That's the description on the video.
Which leads me to believe that it is almost supposed to be more of a performance, to as someone else said, set a worshipful atmosphere.

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Come on........it's no different than "preacher worship" which goes on all the time. People get up to introduce a speaker and they go on and on magnifying and praising him before he speaks. To me, that's so much worse than this.

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I was Charimatic/trinitarian Pentecostal before becoming apostolic, for 2 years.

-Bro. Alex

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I agree! I'm saddened to say that I often see it among the "conservative apostolics."

-Bro. Alex

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I didn't mean that in a negative manner-
as the person who posted the video, I'm still all for it.
I'm just saying that those who are treating this as a song service may be viewing it incorrectly,
because it seems more like an opportunity for the congregation to begin to worship than a singalong type of thing.

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Oh ok, gotcha. Sorry I jumped to conclusions here. I love this type of worship.

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How is this for worship music ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDb702KE-t8