WHAT CHARISMATIC CATHOLICS TAUGHT ME ABOUT HOLY DANCETHE ONLY DANCING I was ever close to when young was in church, joyous times when somebody, sometimes many, Danced in the Spirit. Sadly, it seems that in many places, the pure underlying and abiding joy that motivates Holy Dance, is drying up. Is that a WARNING SIGN the once red-hot Pentecostal Movement is cooling and solidifying into a Monument of what used to be?Even the most delicious, lip-smacking, scrumptiously-delicious candy or cake mix, stays dry unless you pour in milk and stir it. Religion is dry anyway, so unless the freshness of the Holy Spirit it is poured in regularly for spiritual stirring, it becomes DRY AS CRACKER JUICE. If ya ain’t got the WANT TO… I know, we’re OLDER now, more MATURE now, more seasoned; ORDERLY now in what we do…well, you know…more SATISFIED with NOT HAVING the pure joy inside necessary for
Absolutely!My kids discovered this kind of worship when they were teenagers at an AG church not too far away that held a no-holds-barred type of music/worship outreach youth ministry. Then another teenager started a non-denominational ministry that was even closer to where we lived, and they became a part of this ministry till they left home.In fact, the young man that started that ministry has written a great book on David’s Tabernacle recently. It is by Matthew Lilley. Check it out on Amazon.I’m not much of a dancer but I love to see it happen. And now that my church is multicultural, there is a lot more of it. My pastor is quick to give a praise. LET THE people dance________________More of Him…less of me.twitter.com/camiracle77www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=691241499&ref=name
I think we should be careful not to label Pentecostals who don’t dance as lukewarm. That doesn’t mean their whole life is boring and unpalatable to the Lord. For part of my youth, I went to a Pentecostal church that was against rock music and dancing. They might have been okay with falling into a trance and dancing in church or just dancing in church along with the music, a little moving around. I never really learned to dance partly because of this. I can do the shaggy doo thing where I kick my legs up, or could. I haven’t tried recently. I went to an Indonesian church party, and one of the GBI preachers (COG, and this was in the US, too, so it was US COG also) danced to some of the cultural music there. I haven’t encountered the heavily anti-dancing preachers in Indonesia. I haven’t heard preaching against alcohol, but haven’t noticed Pentecostals drinking, either, unless there was a tiny amount in the communion wine. I agree we don’t have to go into a trance to dance– what I suppose some mean by ‘dance in the Spirit’. I can’t find that in the Bible. In Psalm, the Psalm says to dance, so I suppose the people did it, without having to fall into a trance. Some Charismatic churches have dancers with praise banners. Messianic churches will kind of dance around behind the Torah (which can be tough on your back since it is heavy if you are tasked with carrying it) or dance the hora. Fortunately, the Torah dance is more of a march and requires little to no dancing skill.If dancing is important, let’s have dance classes, teaching kids to dance from a young age, so they don’t kick over the grandmas when they get bigger and try to dance in church. Btw, I am skeptical of some of the interpretations of ‘tabernacle of David.’ I take that reference to refer to the little booth of David’s house (a different word for tabernacle than the one they talk about in the teaching.) The house of David had become weak. But in the last days, God raised up Christ from the house of David, as James alluded to in Acts 15
I believe in dancing in the Spirit but I guess what turned me off was the dancers who wore tight white or black pants (men) and the women wore dresses with tights on and then they would be on their toes doing ballets and showing the whole length of the tights (hope that is clear enough). How can God get any glory out of displaying the body in such a fashion? I remember seeing all this in a
There is some validity to shouting/dancing only if you are moved on by God. That is no doubt the IDEAL.However, consider how many sermons you wouldn’t have heard preached, how many songs you wouldn’t have heard sung, how many testimonies you wouldn’t have heard given…if everyone just waited around until they couldn’t HELP but act.We ought to be worshiping, feel like it or not. Praying, feel like it or not. Reading the Word, feel like it or not. Why? Because Jesus is there, feel like it or not! When we meet to worship, Jesus is not there because we feel Him, for sometimes we don’t. No, He’s there because HE SAID HE WOULD BE.If I can detect sincerity, I want to encourage them to shout/dance on.