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Why don't we dance?

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At my old church (PCA) occasionally there would be a few women who would dance at the front of the sanctuary. Later, after leaving the church, I began to feel a little bit biased against that dancing because of the mindset that surrounded it. It served a primarily "mushy" purpose - the focus that it gave to the "worship" was one of subjective, feel-y experience rather than sincere praise to God. However, after reading through the Psalms a year or so ago, I encountered a few passages explicitly allowing, supporting - even commanding dance. > **Psalm 149:3 ESV** > Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre! and > **Psalm 150:4 ESV** > Praise him with tambourine and dance; > praise him with strings and pipe! David dances before the Lord in 2 Samuel 6. Being in a PCA church now, we hold to the Regulative Principle - that is, we don't do anything in our worship service that isn't explicitly commanded in Scripture. So I understand the lack of other modern additions to worship. But dancing *is* commanded. And yet our church - and many more "reformed" or "traditional" services - does not include dancing as part of the liturgy. Why not? What's the biblical, logical, or traditional basis for this? For other non-reformed or non-"traditional" denominations or groups that still don't include dancing in the liturgy, what's your reasoning/scriptural backing?
Asked by Thomas Shields (5315 rep)
Apr 8, 2012, 03:55 AM
Last activity: Apr 11, 2012, 07:03 AM