dancing in church

[Ave Maria]

Ya know Jesus danced when He taught in the synagoge...............

He did?? BCV please!

 

[daveleau]

While there is no direct Scriptural evidence of Jesus dancing, there is no evidence that says that he didn't. We must look at the customs that were observed while teaching in the temple to discern that. I have not studied this, so I can neither confirm nor deny this happening. It would be interesting if He did. And, it would not be against Scripture. It would only be against what we perceive as normal in today's society, which is not the gauge that we want to use.

 

[Yekcidmij]

I dont think Jesus was boring... I bet He dances some. I dont know that He danced while teaching in the church though.

 

[Gold Dragon]

Jesus may not have been recorded as dancing, but King David was, nekkid, when the ark returned to Jerusalem. His wife Michal was noted for being barren for the rest of her life in the same passage where she chastised him.

2 Samuel 6:12-23

Now King David was told, "The LORD has blessed the household of Obed-Edom and everything he has, because of the ark of God." So David went down and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David with rejoicing. When those who were carrying the ark of the LORD had taken six steps, he sacrificed a bull and a fattened calf. David, wearing a linen ephod, danced before the LORD with all his might, while he and the entire house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouts and the sound of trumpets.

As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD , she despised him in her heart. They brought the ark of the LORD and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and David sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before the LORD. After he had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD Almighty. Then he gave a loaf of bread, a cake of dates and a cake of raisins to each person in the whole crowd of Israelites, both men and women. And all the people went to their homes.

When David returned home to bless his household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said, "How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today, disrobing in the sight of the slave girls of his servants as any vulgar fellow would!"

David said to Michal, "It was before the LORD , who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when he appointed me ruler over the LORD's people Israel-I will celebrate before the LORD . I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor."

And Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.

 

[eutychus]

To the OP: I don't see anything wrong with it. I don't see anything wrong with dancing at all unless it leads others to sin (lust, especially), which is usually the kind of dance that involves partners. I don't choose to do it, and I don't advise others to do it (mostly 'cause of there being the possibility of a hint of immorality), but a ballet troupe who ministers? Sure!