Dave, maybe you got a few bad experiences that caused you to think this way. And I can understand what you experienced. But may I suggest not to close yourself out. You might be missing out. A few bad apples do not represent the whole harvest.

Have you been to many of the so called churches with contemporary worhsip style ? Have you been to a worship service where a Hillsongs group is in the house (Darlene Zsech, etc) ? This is the most sincere and most beautiful worship experience. They are contemporary but it is all about adoring God and millions of Christians around the world have been blessed with their songs and bands. Their songs are worship types of slow songs and some are upbeat types as well good for dancing.

BTW: David in the book of Psalms have certain worship styles that are FAR different than yours. Many time he was a dancing worshipper and would fits very well with the contemporary worship styles. And David got an awesome BIG seal of approval from the BIG GUY UPSTAIRS. The Bible says that King David was a man after His own heart. Many of his songs including the dancing types that would most likely fit with a very rythmic contemporary band and those songs were forever enshrined in the Bible.

In fact many of the songs in the Bible probably has those upbeat Israeli rythms and minor chords associated with Middle Eastern music.

Many of the churches that I attended plays many different styles including the hymns, the contemporary styles(both slow and upbeat) and even the ehtnic styles such as Middle Eastern, etc. Each song played well and anointed with the power of God is a very powerful thing that God uses to commune with us. Many signs and wonders - great miracles - such as spectacular healings and awesome display of miracles happened during and after such powerful worship service. The sermon was even enhanced by these songs and the pastor had a much easier time to convey the message.