Comments on: #345. Hand Raising Worship – The 10 Styles

By: Eight Expressions of Praise « Continuous Praise

Eight Expressions of Praise « Continuous Praise — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:48:37 +0000

[...] thought I’d share this link to a humorous account of The 10 Styles of Hand Raising. [...]

By: Worship Blog Round-Up | Musicademy

Worship Blog Round-Up | Musicademy — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:29:56 +0000

[...] Funny post – How metrosexual is your worship leader – from a site full of hilarious musings and similarly amusing descriptions of hand-raising methodologies [...]

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:49:58 +0000

I am lucky in that I have a guitar in my hands so I don't have to worry about being a ninja or whatever! Maybe you should add an "air guitar" category, because I've seen a few kids do that on the more rocking tunes.

By: silverbelle

silverbelle — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:53:58 +0000

Similar to the Pound Cake and Ninja is the "Oliver Twist" where your elbows are at your side and your hands are cupped in front of you touching your belly with palms facing the Heavens. Kind of like you are asking for more porridge.

By: jonathon

jonathon — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:38:01 +0000

you forgot the teenage girl one, also called the "I'm Famished!"
what you do is raise one hand, palm out, straight up. the other hand is then placed palm down on the stomach like you're trying to channel some supernatural energy straight from your stomach to the sky.

By: that other guy

that other guy — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:50:41 +0000

you christians are weird

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:13:24 +0000

Great post. I used to go to a hand-raising church, but then I got Presbyterian so there's pretty much no hand raising now. Never tried the Ninja, but I find that I can do the pound cake while holding a hymnal in my hands and I like to think it's pretty subtle.

By: s86scott

s86scott — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:18:49 +0000

vicky – you've made my week! have been looking for that video for 3 years…thank you

must admit some of these moves are new to me, but i've definitely come across the double-high five, with forward-backward rocking. i'm often a half and half-er.

really excited about the book Jon. Me and my friends have had some brilliant evenings reading your posts together, keep it up

By: Enid Gumby

Enid Gumby — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:41:55 +0000

Had to laugh at this post, since I and some friends have our own version of this same idea. Our concept was a take off of a comment made by another friend about churches where people practice what she called "windshield wipers for Jesus." From there we of variations, based on different sorts of windshield wipers–here's a few variations:
1. The "semi"–one hand raised and waved back and forth.
2. The "delivery van"–two hands raised and waved back and forth in opposite directions
3. The "Mercedes headlights"–two hands being weakly waved back in forth, in very short arcs.

On a similar note, how about a post on typical styles of speaking in tongues? A friend of mine who grew up in the Assemblies of God talked about how she and her brothers and sisters had given names to some of the folks in their church based on the way they spoke in tongues–for example, one of them was called the "Hoodema" lady because most of her speaking in tongues consisted of repeating those three syllables over and over. Another friend mentioned a similar experience, where they had someone in their church who sounded like they were saying, "She came in a Honda." I realize this post might not be as interesting for non-charismatic or non-Pentecostal folks, but for some of us, it could be a lot of fun. Keep up the good work!

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:54:43 +0000

I mentioned this post to my brother-in-law, who goes to my church, and he came up with a new one, "Holding Back the Crowd." You bend your elbows so that your hands are sticking out at 90-degree angles from the rest of your body, and move your hands like you are trying to hold back an unruly crowd at a red-carpet event.