Now here’s a subject that I’m totally out of my depth on — dancing. I’m only tackling this subject because I was given a questionnaire by a dance student who was doing a dissertation on dancing in worship.
The questions were about ‘the appropriateness of dancing within the church and whether it is a suitable form of corporate worship’. Dancing in the Bible is nearly always linked with music, which is why I thought it appropriate to include it in this column. Once I’d taken my head out of the sand and bravely filled in my questionnaire, I was grateful to the student for coaxing me out of my comfort zone.
The student said in her email: ‘I understand that you may not have any experience in dance…’ Actually, I have had a lot of experience in dance, though those who know me will have enjoyed my experience more than me: at a wedding barn dance I got up for the second set, having made a complete fool of myself in the first. The caller looked at my partner with pity and said: ‘Couldn’t you find anyone else?’ My partner had to explain that she was my wife and had promised to stick with me for better or worse.
