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• Does Your Grace approve of dancing at graduation parties or any other outings done by middle and high school students who go to church and attend Sunday school?
• I know that dancing is a big sin and that it leads us into a bad direction but why is it bad? Please give me reasons and examples about dancers. What will happen to them?
• If David danced before God to glorify and worship Him, why we can not do the same?.2) Is all kind of dancing wrong? What about dancing in weddings...not necessarily in pairs but alone or with a group of girlfriends or guy friends? I am referring to the decent, non sexual kind of dancing. Dancing is a wonderful way for people to express themselves within the realms of decency. If we were to consider ballet or ballroom or even break dancing with the right choreography and clothes (not tight), it could be a very beautiful, powerful thing. I don't understand why the Coptic Church is so against dancing in all its forms.
• In the Egyptian culture, dancing is an integral part of wedding celebrations. Is dancing in wedding receptions acceptable in the eyes of God and our Church?
• Is it wrong to dance at wedding receptions as long as it is not sexual?
• What is your Grace's view regarding dancing and clapping during worship on Sunday? Some servants teach that this is an acceptable part of prayer, citing the example of King David dancing before the Ark of the Covenant (2 Sam 6:14).
• Why is dancing wrong? God did not forbid dancing overtly in the Holy Bible. Many people danced (David, Miriam ... Aaron's sister...)