You’re defending the indefensible. Plain and simple: you’re abusing the texts you are ponying up here to make a point which Scripture never makes — and one which Scripture (1 Cor 12-14) is pretty certainly clearly against.
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Chris –

As the anti-McCainiac among the team here, let me say that the video is simply great evidence that the lack of real faith in what is broadly called “evangelicalism” is wide-spread, and that hi-jinx like this have replaced liturgy, preaching, prayer, fasting, confession (both credal and personal sin), and humility.

My challenge to Rev. McCain is this: video like this is best served with an explanation of why it is such a disaster, and then what’s the solution or alternative. There’s an obvious spiritual famine evident in this video — one which the advocates for such things and the participants say is a sumptuous feast.

What’s the solution in 2010 to the spiritual error of spectacular enthusiasm?

Painted your face purple and wearing a tutu would be seem foolish to the world too.

Should we assume that you will be doing something like that at your church next week?

After all, the foolishness things and all that.

In this case (the clip is from a revival meeting at MorningStar Ministries in Fort Mill, SC), the work that was done was done by God — healing of affliction and pain in Jesus’ name. Nobody there imagines that it was the simple song and dance that healed those people — they were healed in Jesus’ name by the power of God and in the context of the gospel. It was Jesus’ name, not the Hokey Pokey, that was being lifted up by the people there.

It may seem foolish to you — and to me, too — that God would use a simple little children’s song to bring about healing. It seemed foolish to Naaman that he should have to dip himself in the Jordan seven times to be healed of leprosy. And yet, Naaman was healed through that, and the people in this clip were healed by the power of God through something that seems foolish to us.

Why should we think that God must always do things in ways that do not offend us?

He’s talking about individuals, not children’s songs. Additionally the passage is talking about what the world considers foolish, not what is in fact foolish.

But most importantly the passage context makes it clear that the work is God’s work. He is the one that is doing the doing. And why is that made clear? So that no man can boast. Our efforts or what we do isn’t what brings the results.

It seems like foolishness, either way.