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Questions and Issues to Discuss:
Should parents allow their children to
attend a dance?
Is dancing a sin? Is it wrong for Christians
to dance?
Were preachers wrong in the past when the
condemned dancing?
Do moral teachings in the Bible change?
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Plan for this Study:
Explain the title
Discuss changes in recent years
Dancing in the Bible
Principles to apply
Cautions and Warnings
Dancing vs. Attending
Summary Questions
My History
• I decided to preach in the 5th grade
• I attended the typical youth rally
• Speakers, lunch, speakers, Q & A
– I was always suspicious – it was rigged
– Same questions – same answers
– Answers that did not make sense
My History
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At one youth rally same format
Question: “Is it a sin to smoke?”
Preacher – “Yes, for 3 reasons.”
Have you noticed preachers have 3 reasons
for everything?
Is it a sin to smoke?
• Yellow teeth –
smoke stains teeth,
fingers
Is it a sin to smoke?
• Yellow teeth – smoke
stains teeth, fingers
• Costly – money spent
smoking would send
a child to college
Is it a sin to smoke?
• Yellow teeth – smoke
stains teeth, fingers
• Costly – money spent
smoking would send
a child to college
• Smelly – bad breath,
clothes reek with
odor
Is a “Big Mac” a sin?
• Yellow teeth –
mustard stains teeth,
and fingers
• Costly – money spent
on Big Macs would
send a child to
college
• Smelly – onions give
you bad breath
Is pre-marital sex wrong?
• Same preacher / with 3 reasons:
– Pregnancy
– STD
– Shame and embarrassment to family
• Real reasons:
– It is a sin
– Fornication
– Against God
Is it a sin to dance?
“Yes, for 3 reasons.”
1. Dark – evil loves
darkness
Is it a sin to dance?
“Yes, for 3 reasons.”
1. Dark – evil loves
darkness
2. Close – hold each other
Is it a sin to dance?
“Yes, for 3 reasons.”
1. Dark – evil loves
darkness
2. Close – hold each other
3. Alcohol – dancing takes
place in honky-tonks and
night clubs
Is it a sin to dance?
TODAY:
1. Bright lights
2. 3-feet apart
3. Teen clubs
Wrong is Wrong
• In the past – preachers often reached a
right conclusion with wrong reasons
• Today – many do the same.
– We are correct in our conclusion
– We just get there with faulty logic
• When teens see the fault with the logic –
they assume that the thing is OK.
Changes in Dancing
• Attitudes
• Toward the Bible
• Toward principles that
affect the matter
• How to apply the
principles
• Toward sin – moral
and immoral
Changes in Dancing
• Attitudes
• Arguments
failed
• Yellow Teeth
arguments
• We make correct
conclusions for wrong
reasons
Changes in Dancing
Irish Riverdance
• Attitudes
• Arguments failed
• Dancing has
many forms
Janet Jackson
Fred Astaire &
Ginger Rogers
Traditional
Costume
Ballet
Ice dancing
Changes in Dancing
• Attitudes
• Arguments failed
• Dancing has many
forms
• Worldliness
• Christians often look
and act like the world
around us
• There is less
separation, less
difference, less
distinction
Changes in Dancing
• Attitudes
• Arguments failed
• Dancing has many
forms
• Worldliness
• 1 John 2:15-16 - 15Do
not love the world or the
things in the world. If
anyone loves the world,
the love of the Father is
not in him. 16For all that
is in the world—the lust
of the flesh, the lust of
the eyes, and the pride of
life—is not of the Father
but is of the world.
Changes in Dancing
• Attitudes
• Arguments failed
• Dancing has many
forms
• Worldliness
• 1 Corinthians 6:14-15 –
14Do not be unequally yoked
together with unbelievers.
For what fellowship has
righteousness with
lawlessness? And what
communion has light with
darkness? 15And what
accord has Christ with
Belial? Or what part has a
believer with an
unbeliever?
Changes in Dancing
• Attitudes
• Arguments failed
• Dancing has many
forms
• Worldliness
• 1 Corinthians 6:17-18 –
17Therefore “Come out from
among them And be
separate, says the Lord.
Do not touch what is
unclean, And I will
receive you.” 18 “I will be
a Father to you, And you
shall be My sons and
daughters, Says the
Lord Almighty.”
Dancing in the Bible
• Approved –
– Exodus 15:20 - Then Miriam the prophetess,
the sister of Aaron, took the timbrel in her
hand; and all the women went out after her with
timbrels and with dances.
– Psalm 149:3 - Let them praise His name with
the dance; Let them sing praises to Him with
the timbrel and harp.
Dancing in the Bible
• Approved –
– This “dancing” is a jump for joy
– What you see when someone wins a big prize
on a game show
– What the winning team does after the
championship game
– Excitement and joy make us “dance” around
Dancing in the Bible
• Not Approved –
– Mark 6:22 - And when Herodias’ daughter
herself came in and danced, and pleased Herod
and those who sat with him, the king said to the
girl, “Ask me whatever you want, and I will
give it to you.”
– “Dirty dancing” that involves simulated sexual
activity, causes lust, or evil desires – is wrong.
Conclusion – Part 1
• We must use proper reasons and valid
arguments
• If our reasons are faulty our conclusions
will be rejected – even if the conclusion is
correct.
• REMEMBER ARCHIE BUNKER? He
often gave wrong arguments.