The link below is TRULY worth taking a few moments to ponder...and don't miss the compelling finish!
I will lift up my hands Psalm 63:4
To those who'd say, "just raise your hands already...and get on with it": I do..I am! J
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
With all my heart, soul, mind, and strength (and hands!)
The link below is TRULY worth taking a few moments to ponder...and don't miss the compelling finish!
I will lift up my hands Psalm 63:4
To those who'd say, "just raise your hands already...and get on with it": I do..I am! J
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I think I could make the same arguments for dancing that this article makes for hand raising Ps. 149:3 Ps. 150:4. I think the real question should be "what is an appropriate and God-centered activity for a worshipper in a corporate setting?" When I go back home to visit my mother, I attend a church where there are usually a couple ladies that sit in the front row and take up dancing during the song service. My mother responses, "They sure love the LORD!"
ReplyDeleterlr
I Cor. 14:40
Thanks for bring up the topic!
Interesting comparison. One difference is that dancing has obvious non-worship connotations that would influence its appropriateness (or inappropriateness) whereas handraising is pretty much exclusively understood as a worship activity. Additionally, the greater number of references and the repeated emphasis (OT and NT) of handraising in worship (including the direct command in I Tim 2:8 for men to raise holy hands in prayer) is not true of dancing.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, there are no NT verses which either reference nor command dancing in worship.
And who better to decide the answer to your 'real question' above than God himself in the Scriptures itself? Do we brush that aside to decide 'for ourself' what is an appropriate and God-centered activity for a worshipper?
Otherwise, who gets to decide the answer to your question? Could you not have an endless diversity of opinions...?
Thank you for entering the conversation.