David Danced Why Can’t I?

April 5th, 2008 | by Christopher Gillespie | Print This Post Print This Post

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…The problem is the contemporary worship movement hasn’t added dancing or bumping another rump for Jesus in humility but as a better, more enlightened form of worship.  It is more exciting.  They get more out of it.  David got less out of it.  He got the distain of his wife.  He was abasing Himself before the Lord who condescended to come to where He is.  He danced because he knew he was unworthy.  Christians bow and kneel when receiving the Body and Blood of Jesus for the same reason, and those of us who do are considered foolish by some who don’t believe anything is there but bread and wine.

The Lord had cautioned the Old Testament Church about worshipping Him in a way he had not instructed.  David was certainly not introducing or suggesting a new way.  The Lord, however, had given no such cautions about new ways of humbling yourself.  The Church has rent clothes, put on sackcloth, marked themselves with ashes, bowed, genuflected, kneeled, and fully prostrated themselves.

Where the pagan philosopher Fredrick Nietzsche said, “I would believe only in a God that knew how to dance,”  the Christian writer Marvin Olasky appears to say he believes only in a God who accepts dance as a way of worshipping.  The pagan is closer to the truth.  I don’t know if my God, Jesus, can dance, but I do know He has the flesh and blood to do it if He wants to.  Well then, do I believe only in a God who rejects dance as a way of worshipping?  I believe in a God who wills to be worshipped in Spirit and truth, and from dancing around the golden calf to limping around the altar to get Baal’s attention, from rain dances to fertility dances, dancing doesn’t have a lot to commend it.  Humbling oneself does…

There’s the conclusion but you really should read the whole argument above: St. Antony’s Cave » Blog Archive » David Danced Why Can’t I?

Then consider this video from a local LCMS church: Easter Dance

 

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One Response to “David Danced Why Can’t I?”

  1. By Jud on Apr 7, 2008

    All theological reasons aside, and there are countless, this is just plain garbage — offal music, offal lyrics, and offal dancing.

    When it comes to worship, sincerity != acceptable

    Ugh.

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