Questions and Issues to Discuss:

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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

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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

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My History

• 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?

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Is it a sin to smoke?

• Yellow teeth smoke stains teeth, fingers

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Is it a sin to smoke?

• Yellow teeth smoke stains teeth, fingers
• Costly money spent smoking would send a child
  to college

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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

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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

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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

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Is it a sin to dance?Yes, for 3 reasons.

1. Dark evil loves darkness

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Is it a sin to dance?Yes, for 3 reasons.

1. Dark evil loves darkness
2. Close hold each other

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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

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Is it a sin to dance?TODAY

1. Bright lights
2. 3-feet apart
3. Teen clubs

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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.

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Changes in Dancing

• Attitudes

• Toward the Bible
• Toward principles that affect the matter
• How to apply the principles
• Toward sin moral and immoral

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Changes in Dancing

• Attitudes
• Arguments failed

• Yellow Teeth arguments
• We make correct conclusions for wrong reasons

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Changes in Dancing
Irish Riverdance

• Attitudes
• Arguments failed
• Dancing has many forms

Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers
Ballet
Traditional Costume
Janet Jackson
Ice dancing
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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

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Changes in Dancing

• Attitudes
• Arguments failed
• Dancing has many forms
• Worldliness

• 1 John 215-16 - 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 worldthe lust of the flesh, the
  lust of the eyes, and the pride of lifeis not of
  the Father but is of the world.

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Changes in Dancing

• 1 Corinthians 614-15
• 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?

• Attitudes
• Arguments failed
• Dancing has many forms
• Worldliness

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Changes in Dancing

• 1 Corinthians 617-18
• 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.

• Attitudes
• Arguments failed
• Dancing has many forms
• Worldliness

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Dancing in the Bible

• Approved
• Exodus 1520 - 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 1493 - Let them praise His name with the
  dance Let them sing praises to Him with the
  timbrel and harp.

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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

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Dancing in the Bible

• Not Approved
• Mark 622 - 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.

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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.