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Re: UPC Upper Body Synchronized Dancing
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Originally Posted by Barb
We like musical signing or dislike like it, not from a biblical application, but from our personal viewpoint. This applies to everything in life I guess, and with that there is nothing inherently wrong...
UNTIL we make it a doctrine that the rest of Christendom must abide by.
From my perspective, I have seen it used with deaf members in the group and with hearing groups signing with the deaf in the congregation.
It has been a blessing to the hearing as well as the hearing impaired, and I can't explain it.
Yes, I have felt the witness of the presence of the Lord in the midst and can't explain that either.
Music is a strange thing...truly a universal language.
For example, I have friends who are singing in Sweden and Norway for 2 weeks...
Courtney wrote that is was so beautiful to hear the people in the concert singing How Great Thou Art in their own language...the English translation of the song is from a Swedish hymn.
Music touches lives in many ways...King Saul could testify to that, and so can I. Even in the secular realm, I can be in a store or doctor's office and hear a song from back in the day that will stir up an emotion or remembrance, good and bad.
So I guess I'm saying that if it is a blessing to some, let us give thanks. And if it does nothing for you, give thanks for those who are being blessed.
I heard someone say recently that we should take God very seriously, and take ourselves a whole less seriously.
When we cross over to the other side, I wonder how much of what we stress over is really that important?
Just my thoughts...
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Great post!
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"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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