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Adventists Must Resist Becoming Entertainment Churches
On June 17, 2023, Paangpi Adventist Church, located in Myanmar, published a video of young girls dancing in front of the sacred pulpit. The dance featured popular synchronized hip-hop-inspired movements and dress as the performers moved in sequence together. These choreographed dances, which are very recognizable in international music venues, are also becoming popular in churches.
Why are churches embracing this dance form? Because these dance shows are crowd-pleasers. Worship is being tailored for a new generation of young people, and the goal is to provide amusement, diversion, and satisfaction. However, this type of entertainment centered worship style is contrary to the Word of God. The biblical church never seeks to please or entertain men.
"For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ." Galatians 1:10.
"But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts." 1 Thessalonians 2:4.
What Paul did in his outreach for the gospel was not calculated to please men. He would have nothing to do with crowd-pleasing tactics, spectacular shows, sensational displays, or much of the entertainment that has come to dominate many church services.
"Music was made to serve a holy purpose, to lift the thoughts to that which is pure, noble, and elevating, and to awaken in the soul devotion and gratitude to God. What a contrast between the ancient custom and the uses to which music is now too often devoted! How many employ this gift to exalt self, instead of using it to Glorify God! A love for music leads the unwary to unite with world lovers in pleasure gatherings where God has forbidden His children to go. Thus that which is a great blessing when rightly used, becomes one of the most successful agencies by which Satan allures the mind from duty and from the contemplation of eternal things. Music forms a part of God's worship in the courts above, and we should endeavor, in our songs of praise, to approach as nearly as possible to the harmony of the heavenly choirs" (Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 594).
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