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[rudywoofs (Pam)]

So...is this really being done in the Adventist church now? Or is it something we can look forward to doing?

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...a form of worship that has a very ancient tradition but has fallen on hard times in our century. It is the use of the dance. For a thousand years, Christians did a simple dance movement called the tripudium to many of their hymns. It worked worked well with any song in 2/2, 3/4, or 4/4 time. As they sang, worshippers would take three steps forward, one step back, three steps forward, one step back. In doing this, Christians were actually proclaiming a theology with their feet.... This simple way to worship with the body can be used in any number of informal worship settings. It can even be done in the sanctuary provided the aisles are wide enough to accommodate three or four abreast, and then worshippers can march around the sanctuary singing the great hymns of the faith.

the source for the quote has been purposely omitted at this time...I would like the opinions of people before I give the source..

[olger]

laodicea gets bored easily.

[Naomi]

Good observation Olger!

[Overaged]

So...is this really being done in the Adventist church now? Or is it something we can look forward to doing?

Quote:

...a form of worship that has a very ancient tradition but has fallen on hard times in our century. It is the use of the dance. For a thousand years, Christians did a simple dance movement called the tripudium to many of their hymns. It worked worked well with any song in 2/2, 3/4, or 4/4 time. As they sang, worshippers would take three steps forward, one step back, three steps forward, one step back. In doing this, Christians were actually proclaiming a theology with their feet.... This simple way to worship with the body can be used in any number of informal worship settings. It can even be done in the sanctuary provided the aisles are wide enough to accommodate three or four abreast, and then worshippers can march around the sanctuary singing the great hymns of the faith.

the source for the quote has been purposely omitted at this time...I would like the opinions of people before I give the source..

Sounds like the searching of a generation that really doesn't have a culture; that really does not know God.

The only kind of "dancing" that I know well is "slam dancing;" so if they ever ask us to do that, or anything close to it in church; you can know the end is near - even at the doors.

http://youtu.be/4je3tbWIoDM

Pam; I have been to a few churches now where they do what you descibed...it is the same wherever I see it...it eventually get out of control to the point where people are doing some pretty obscene "dance" movements.

[doug yowell]

For a thousand years, Christians did a simple dance movement called the tripudium to many of their hymns. It worked worked well with any song in 2/2, 3/4, or 4/4 time. As they sang, worshippers would take three steps forward, one step back, three steps forward, one step back. In doing this, Christians were actually proclaiming a theology with their feet....

A historical tidbit about the origins of the hokey-pokey.Obviously,now we're gonna have to start taking out a bunch of the seating in our churches.

[olger]

The pew market just fell through the floor (no pun intended).

[olger]

The dancing deacons and the Hallelujah Hop may be just thing to finish the work!

Refrain always,

`oG

[Gibs]

rudywoofs,

It'd just have to have a "rocky" beat to it today or it wouldn't go.

1Jo 4:4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

[rudywoofs (Pam)]

Thanks for the comments...most are exactly what I thought, too. Here is the source: Celebration of Discipline by Richard J. Foster. This is a non-SDA book used as a major text in the Spiritual Formation Theology class at an Adventist university..

[doug yowell]

Thanks for the comments...most are exactly what I thought, too. Here is the source: Celebration of Discipline by Richard J. Foster. This is a non-SDA book used as a major text in the Spiritual Formation Theology class at an Adventist university..

Was it used as a positive or something to be avoided?

[rudywoofs (Pam)]

It is used as an example of something which can be done to "open the inner sanctuary of the soul into worship."

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In this context [opening the inner sanctuary of the soul] may I lift up one forum of worship that has a very ancient tradition but has fallen on hard times in our century. It is the use of the dance....

[LynnDel]

I have seen Orthodox Jews do this a number of times during a certain part of their service. I was not sure why they were doing it, and it in no way resembled a dance. They took the steps forward and back -- or side to side (memory dims), maybe twice at most, while the cantor was singing the scripture (a capella, no beat), and that was it. I am sure there was some meaning to it.

LD