I think it's something to sing about because it describes perfectly what Methodist fellowship looks like. We all love to sing and eat.

By the way, at my church, we sometimes include liturgical dance in church. It's the Baptists who disallow dancing (still to this day). To my knowledge we never had a problem with it, as we'd always have a counter to the Baptist anti-dancing argument, citing verse after verse describing dance as a way to praise God. Baptists banned dancing because Herod's stepdaughter danced so seductively for him that she was able to talk him into bringing her the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter.

Yeah, Calvinism and Methodism are soooo not the same thing. Wesley had a good bit of theological skirmishes with the Calvinists. And that predestination junk... we aint buying it.

Still, this song is representative of a bygone era of Methodist camp meetings. We were called "shoutin' Methodists" back then because of the way we carried on at our meetings. I'd love to have some of that fire back in our church. It would be great to have an old-fashioned revival.