The Renewed Mind is the Key

Picture if you will: A music director at a waspy ministry in rural Ohio decides that he wants to add a "hip-hoppy" piece to his upcoming show. You know ... something that the kids will love ... something that will really bring God's word to the next generation. He remembers the local Cro-Magnon Steve telling a funny story recently about how he had once danced in a high school musical and immediately enlists him to choreograph his show and take the lead role (he also insists that Steve clean himself up because noone likes watching Cavemen).

Steve then recruits Debbie (the ministry MILF) and his Aunt Harriet (not a MILF) to form one bad ass holy hip-shaking trinity. For fresh new beats they recruit Debbie's older brother Jordan (who has an electronic drum kit in his basement), Ralph who rocks a mean Casio, and Tom (noone really knows where Tom came from but he once owned a lot of dcTalk albums and thus must have an intimate grasp of hip-hop).

Oh and to add to the intensity of the show let's have a city-leveling-sized dove swooping in from the heavens to smite the unfunky in the background. kthx.

It's opening day for the show; as the curtains come up and 6,000 crackers stare on with as much excitement as a bunch of church-going crackers can muster, a legend is born:

Apparently this video was put together and released to the world in March of 2007 by The Way International but only recently started gaining momentum in the realm of viral video. Someone posted the video on YouTube (titled "The Renewed Mind is the Key .. to bad dancing) and it got some attention on the blogs but it was soon yanked due to copyright claim. A high-quality version of the video can be viewed on The Way's website.

The music, the church ladies, Jon Travolta, the whiteness - perfection. The video is absolutely hilarious. I mean I could see someone putting it together as a joke but as far as I can tell it was done in all seriousness (there are 3 other parts to the show that don't involve dancing around like a total douche). It's too good not to share so please pass it around.

Update: It looks like The Way have pulled the video off of their site. Thankfully we have it preserved here for all time. Or until they put the fear of God in Blogger :<