Shall We Dance?

World Magazine (May 19, 2001) stated, This year's prom season is causing turmoil at schools across America: Dancing has become so sexually explicit that some officials call it sex with clothes on and many want it stopped.

Statistically, some of the worst things that happen to teenagers happen on prom night, graduation night, and homecoming night: pregnancy, drunk driving, car accidents, rape, and more. Jesus said, Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit (Matthew 7:17).

One expressed it this way: Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire. Pure and undefiled religion is to keep oneself unspotted from the world (James 1:27) and that whether we eat or drink or whatever we do, we are to do all to the glory of God (1 Corinthians 10:31). Certainly, we do not remain unspotted nor is God glorified through modern dance.

We must not be a stumbling block (1 Corinthians 8:11-13; 10:32). We should be the light of the world and people ought to look to us for direction (Matthew 5:16). There is an old saying, that goes like this: Dancing feet and praying knees do not grow on the same pair of legs. The bump and grind of the modern dance should not be a part of our lives. Stand strong and do not cave into the pressures of the world. Modern dancing is sinful and should be avoided (Galatians 5:19-21; 1 Corinthians 6:18-20; Romans 12:1,2; 1 John 2:15-17; et al).

- adapted, Denny Wilson, Odessa, Texas