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8:56 pm on 06/27/2008
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As some of you may be aware, this fall I plan to attend school at Christ For the Nations Institute [CFNI]. I believe it will be a rewarding experience. I also think that it is going to be hilarious. CFNI [or more accurately the people there] will become a major source of inspiration and content for PN.
Just this evening I was finishing up my application and I read that one of the standards I have to adhere to is “No social dancing”. That statement raises a lot of questions. What is social? What is dancing? When I combine the two does it create something unwanted?
Social: relating to or designed for activities in which people meet each other for pleasure
Dancing: move rhythmically to music, typically following a set sequence of steps
Social Dancing: moving rhythmically to music with other people [this is my own definition because "social dancing" isn't in the dictionary].
I don’t see why this is problematic. Some charismatic churches dance during worship. And if your worship takes place during a church service there is most likely going to be other people there. The act then becomes [by definition] ‘social dancing’.
Its fairly sound logic, you must agree. I’ll have to speak to someone at CFNI [when I get there] and make sure that they don’t let anyone dance during the service [sarcasm].
I feel that rule is a joke and I really want to talk to someone about it. I don’t necessarily think that it needs to be omitted from the handbook, just rewritten to more accurately describe what they intent to forbid: booty-dancing. Not social dancing, but that promiscuous bump-and-grind that couples do out on the dance floor of clubs. I think that is the kind of activity that the school is wanting to discouarge.
Give me your 2 cents. Let me know if you dance. Let me know if you’re social. Let me know if you’ve ever been crazy enough to mix the two.
My name is Andrew Nemeth and I like to dance.
ahhhhhhh hahaha thats funny but i had that same statement to tj(assistant dean of men) and he just got frustrated about it but i find it friggin funny!!! (you should change your “add your comment” button to something more D.A.N.)
JPen
11:52 pm - 06/27/2008
Social Dancing is the devil.
King
12:11 am - 06/28/2008
i’m asocial and can’t dance, but…
it’s a leftover of the holiness movement from the 2nd half of the 1800′s. dancing, drinking, and tobacco became taboo. some people even got so crazy as to ban instrumental music from worship (sry to all you church of christ folks reading this). religious prescriptions and proscriptions are generally about tradition rather than about life in the spirit.
marty nickel
10:08 am - 06/30/2008
I dance. I was gonna teach ballroom dancing during The Core (where the same rules apply), but I forgot.
Did you know that foot massages to the opposite sex are also discouraged?
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It’s actually an old rule. Not to say that it doesn’t apply to CFNI anymore, but simply to say that it was put into place…not in recent years. Here’s my two cents on this. It’s easy to say that you don’t agree with something and resist then it is to just submit. To submit, by the way, has more to it then just outside obedience. America is an amazing place but democracy teaches us that we are all entitled to agreeing or not agreeing based on what we believe and then doing something about it. That philosophy is great for a country. Kingdoms, however, function differently and some rules exist not for the sake of the rule but for the sake of those to follow the rule. The issue here is not dancing (nothing wrong with it). The issue is what comes to surface when you’re told that you can’t dance. You won’t find anything in the bible that allows for an uprising against what people think is wrong. I’m not speaking of an uprising of students over a policy so trivial but an uprising from within that grumbles and complains. Saul tried to kill David, what was David’s response. You can dance all you want when you leave. Use this as an opportunity to concider that you may not be embracing the process like you think you are.
TJ
12:56 am - 01/29/2009