Below Mr. Don said, "I've heard family members speak about worship music in church which is awesome, but their reaction is, "but it doesn't have the spirit of David." My thought is gee it only has the Holy Spirit."
My reaction when I went into a church for the first time was, "Wow, they're singing about Jesus, not Berg!" I was so used to "Climb that Mountain" being sung over and over and over till it made you want to puke, and "We follow you David our King". And then there were the REAL winners like "You belong to me" which was a song based on the ML where Berg said to his daughter Faith that he was her first love and "you still belong to me." Imagine! A love song glamorizing incest turned into a cry for dedication to the cult!
That phrase, "the spirit of David" was used for years, but what does it really mean? The nearest I can think of was that it was (a) so-called revolutionary and radical and (b) anything that perpetrated a man-worshiping emphasis on Berg.
The most possible root of the phrase I can think of is where he said in some old ML, "I may mix up the rules, kick over the traces, turn everything upside down, but I've got the fire, baby! I've got the Spirit!" Apparently that was the "spirit of David," supposely totally rebelling against the system and free and wild like the Wild Wind. Which all adds up to an excuse for him to be free to do whatever he wanted and control other people's lives with a total LACK of freedom, down to details of making rules on how we should wipe our butts and brush our teeth.
I think the phrase "the spirit of David" was just a cult catch-phrase to make us feel special and elite like we had something the churches and no other Christians had. It was part of the whole Berg-worshiping props. If we left the group, even if we still loved God, we would be losing "the spirit of David".
Thank God I lost the spirit of David!