Comments on: Dancing (As long as it’s in a musical)

By: grace2live

grace2live — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:59:25 +0000

I actually got to dance while I was a student at BJU. First, in our teaching physical education classes, they actually taught us to do a Jewish dance (I think it was called the hora). Also, when I was student teaching I had to go out of town with my sixth graders to an overnight retreat where they had square dancing and polkas. I did not know about that part ahead of time, nor did I know that the teachers had to start the dancing, then each go and grab one student partner after another until everyone was dancing. I participated fully and joyfully, and my conscience has never bothered me at all.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 07:47:43 +0000

haha, so true…

By: Andi

Andi — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:38:03 +0000

My ladies’ youth group teacher put it this way:
Dancing to praise the Lord is okay as long as it’s a guy (like David.) God is NEVER praised when women dance.
If you do dance, it can only be with your spouse.

I tried not to think about rule 2 when I took ballroom dancing with my father.

By: Pastor's Wife

Pastor's Wife — Sat, 08 May 2010 16:06:16 +0000

@ Lisa (July 29, 2009) said, “Where does that put ballet with all those tight costumes and immodest display of leg? I asked a fundie once if ballet was considered sinful, and he had no answer to that.” Actually my parents taught us that ballet was sinful, and I even felt guilty when at age 33 I put my four year old in a ballet class.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:44:49 +0000

What about a post about fundies and their Bible covers? Seems like they all have them. I remember getting my first back in the day…can’t beat it!

By: Sandra

Sandra — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:52:12 +0000

After dealing with my hard core, IFBx mother in law this week I needed a good laugh. She is the poster child of the extreme fundy movement & is quit vexed we waved good bye to the fundy ways.

By: Brendt Waters

Brendt Waters — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:30:30 +0000

The pathetic way I dance, it really IS a sin.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:59:05 +0000

In church we NEVER danced in VBS or Sunday School, but “movements” were perfectly ok (never mind that some of them were very dance-like). And I’ll never forget my fairly hardcore IFB/IFBx school taking a field trip to see a ballet back in elementary school. Somehow that was perfectly ok – and it wasn’t even a 50+ year old musical!

By: Jordan M. Poss

Jordan M. Poss — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:58:53 +0000

I love the way a bodily response as manifested in dancing to jazz, rock, or other worldly musical styles is bad, but toe-tapping and clapping in rhythm to southern gospel is not.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:56:53 +0000

My problem is that I will only dance after I’ve had a couple drinks of liquid sin. I really don’t like dancing a whole lot but my wife loves to dance. Why is that?