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Chris,
My name is David. I am one of the students in that choir on the video of my friend’s blog screaming and dancing to that song.
In response to your question, let me ask you something: which is better worship?
A soft reflective song where you process and revere God for what He has done and is doing in your life and use the time to give Him humble thanks, as in "be still, and know that I am Lord,"
Or a loud, passionate symphony or students laughing and dancing and crying out praises to their King like David in 2 Samuel 6, when "David danced before the LORD with all his might."
Neither of the two is any more authentic or legitimate then the other - they are just two different forms of expression. Everything in the message and words of that song is entirely Biblical - and why wouldn’t we dance and shout to show it?
Don’t get me wrong - I love traditional worship, I can sit in front of my piano with a hymnal for hours - but just because there is blaring, upbeat music in a high school worship service by no means deems it wrong, or artificial, or blasphemous, not even unorthodox or new age.
If what we did was new age - then a majority of the book of Psalms must be as well, because the same psalmist who wrote it liked dancing too.
In the love of Christ,
David - age 17.
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