| Author | Message | ||
| Max |
WITH A FEW RARE AND REBELLIOUS EXCEPTIONS -- SUCH AS THE CELEBRATION CHURCHES -- NO DANCING IS ALLOWED. WHY NOT? Don't you know you're disobeying holy Scripture? Read this if you dare: Psalm 150 (KJV): 1 Praise ye the LORD. PRAISE GOD IN HIS SANCTUARY: praise him in the firmament of his power. 2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. 3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. 4 PRAISE HIM WITH THE timbrel and DANCE: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. 5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. 6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD. I really want to know! Max of the Cross | ||
| George |
Yes, how do you answer this. Do you simply say dancing didn't mean dancing, the same way you say wine doesn't mean wine, but grape juice. I wonder!!! George | ||
| Max |
Friend George, I think you're right. I've read much of what Ellen G. White wrote about dancing. The kind of dancing popular in her day in the U.S. was romantic dancing (ballroom, contra, country and folk dancing). Evidently her prophetic gift did not allow her to see that in Jewish dancing -- the king portrayed in Psalm 150 was MALE ONLY, not females and males together. There may also have been some FEMALE ONLY dancing. But her angel evidently failed to tell her about it. Bottom line: Since romantic dancing was forbidden period, dancing in church would be an ultimate sort of desecration and blasphemy! When the Adventist pioneers read Psalm 157 the did so without the "eyes" of which Jesus spoke. So, George, I agree with you. For SDAs: 1. wine = grape juice and 2. dancing = couples dancing romantically. Real Scripture just doesn't have a chance. Max of the Cross | ||
| Denisegilmore |
I love to dance! I'm a natural at it and it releases alot of excess stress. I used to dance every single night in Sacramento for 7 hours. I always danced alone and felt grateful to God for the ability to dance. I moved here and began attending a Nazarene church. During one of our songs, 'Amazing Grace,' which is one of my favorites, I stood to sing. The woman sitting next to me kept tugging at my dress. I just sort of looked at her with a question but continued singing for my Lord. After the service, I asked her why she kept tugging at my dress. She told me that standing is a form of dancing and that dancing is a sexual thing. I was appauled to say the least. I asked her with this unbelievable tone of 'I can't believe what she has just told me,' where she learned this ridiculous thing! She told me, while shaking her head in sort of amazement at her own belief, that she didn't know, that it's always been that way. I told her that many people danced in the Bible and I wasn't dancing, simply standing and I was worshiping my Lord. The subject ended there. These sort of teachings of men are the very thing that keeps me out of the Churches. I want to worship my Lord in whatever way He moves me and will not be told how to worship God. So I worship God at home and am very content I might add. God Bless all, Denise the dancer In that Church and the SDA Church, raising hands during singing is also a no no. Infact, I was told that I would make a terrible witness for the Lord if I raised a hand while singing. I refuse to be oppressed in my worship. | ||
| Max |
Our Sovereign is using you, Denise, to withness to our Adventist friends in a powerful and convincing testimony. -mc | ||
| Valm |
Denise, Visit a Messianic temple sometime. They DANCE in their services. I am not forsure what or when dancing became such a no no. I understand that their can be a seductive quality. But isn't that in everything. Oh for goodness sake I say. Learn to have self control in everything you do an HAVE FUN. So kick up your heals and polka, waltz, jitterbug, square, round or whatever you wish. And if the time is appropriate DANCE UNTO THE LORD IN CHURCH!!!! And Denise we need people who refuse to be oppressed to loosen up the others. I have always commented that SDAs and other are so anxious for the Lord to come because they have assigned evil and a forbiddance to every good thing about living here. | ||
| Bob |
Denise: Come and visit my church, Crossroads Christian Church in Corona. You can lift your hands in worship there and you will feel right at home! And quite often someone does interpretive dance as part of the worship program. | ||
| Max |
"Praise Him with ... the dance." Psalm 150:4 | ||
| Denisegilmore |
Hello Bob and it's good to see you here! Just let me know when and I'll be waiting with great anticipation to be who is me. The interprative dancer who expresses herself with dancing quite often in the confines of my apartment. Course, you'd have to pick me up as I don't drive. Thank you and God Bless, Denise |
