Comments on: Shall We Dance?

By: Jeff Crowder

Jeff Crowder — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:19:53 +0000

Bro. Hilton – AMEN!

Brian, excellent comments. I’d like to recommend some reading you might enjoy. Book title: The end of Religion; author: Bruxy Cavey. He is a teaching pastor in Canada. A search of the title or author on Amazon.com should pull it up. If you are truly looking for a church, sounds like Pastor Jeffreys church may be a place for you.

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:30:12 +0000

Let me just add this:
We can take most things, and allow the humanity and “adamic” nature within us to corrupt them. We would be wise to step back and look at the things we do/do not do and wisely assess the “why”? Then, in choosing to do anything with all our hearts, we should pass our actions through this filter…
” in whatever you do, be it word or deed, do it all for the glory of God” (Collosians, paraphrase mine).
CT

By: Hilton Jeffreys

Hilton Jeffreys — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:12:21 +0000

I am a Baptist pastor and a lot of Baptist are still uncomfortable about many Biblical passages. There are seven Hebrew words for praise in the Old Testament and dance is one of them. Let’s dance for Jesus! Worship is not a spectator sport.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:24:24 +0000

Dancing is not different than turning on the light on Saturday. Huh? Yeah, seriously. An orthodox Jew will not turn on an electric light on Saturday because to do so might cause him to work, thereby violating the OT Sabbath rules.

Here’s the problem- God never said, “Don’t turn on lights on Saturday or I shall smite your land with lots of ugly, foul-smelling frogs!” The rule is a tradition of men.

Jesus wasn’t real down with traditions of men- they tended to take the focus off the original issue of the heart. See Mark 7 for more info.

The religious rules concerning dancing have more to do with men’s rules and supposed slippery slopes than with the real heart issues of lust, wayward hearts and divided allegiances. According to Colossians, “Since you died with Christ to the basic principles of this world, why, as though you still belonged to it, do you submit to its rules: “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? These are all destined to perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings. Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence” (2:20-23). In other words, legalism never actually keeps anyone from sin. Rather, it becomes a deception of self-righteousness that keeps me from actually following God.

OK- now do I have to stop being in a baptist-affiliated church? Bummer, dude.

By: Maeve

Maeve — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:24:27 +0000

this comment wont be as insightful or “deep” as most are but basically all i have to say is should we change the way we worship a never changing god because what we are doing is also done by “unholy” people??? isnt people wanting to be like us (christians) and do things like us and find what it is we have that makes us so different exactly what we want unholy people do???